Hasta La Ideas

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pThe husband-and-wife team of designers Jeffrey McGrew and Jillian Northrup are the force behind A HREF=”http://www.becausewecan.org/” Because We Can/A, a design-build company that specializes in sustainable interior design and custom furniture. The California-based company uses only sustainable, reclaimed and/or eco-friendly products, and it’s hard not to be impressed with the results, like their A HREF=”http://www.becausewecan.org/Reclaimed_Lumber_Benches” reclaimed lumber benches/A for the offices of solar power company A HREF=”http://us.sunpowercorp.com/about/” SunPower Corporation/A. Check out the raw material, which looks like the weather has been beating the crap out of it for decades:/p

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pAdd a little (okay, a lot) of elbow grease…/p

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