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Mr. Heller found this nightstand on the street, painted it blue and coated it with shellac.
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Sarah Lupton and Carolyn McDaniel, students at Duke University, painted the living room of their two-bedroom suite bright red and used the left-over paint to create wall art in one of the bedrooms.
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Lauren Chapman, a student at Yale School of Architecture, used recycled light bulbs as candleholders.
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Mr. Kolendowicz has broken up the living space in his small apartment into separate areas for sleeping, painting and studying.
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Galen Wolfe-Pauly, a student at the Cooper Union, made a bed frame of stacked honeycomb cardboard.
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Michelle Nicholls, a student at Pratt Institute, created diagonal bookshelves made of wood found on the street.
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Drawers, found on a sidewalk without their dresser, were used as wall mountings by Ms. Brumder.
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A set of Ikea shelves were covered with Japanese comic book pages and coated with Minwax clear lacquer by Young Nam Heller, a 24-year-old illustration student at New York City's School of Visual Arts.
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Kayt Brumder, a fifth-year architecture student at the Cooper Union, designed this loft bed with her boyfriend, who is also an architect. The steps double as storage space and the desk underneath sits on two filing cabinets.
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A puffy chandelier in the home of Tyler Velten was made by draping used plastic grocery bags over 11-watt lightbulbs. (A wire-mesh basket around each bulb keeps the chandelier from melting or bursting into flames.)
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