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It's a cute art project, but in my household of six bikes, old handlebars get re-used on different bikes. They are never considered "defunct" until they are broken or bent.

In the past when I cooked a brined turkey, I always rinsed the salt off afterwards, and then followed that with an immersion in apple cider. With commercially brined birds, I like to soak in cold water for a few hours to try to remove more brine. Thanksgiving is salty enough.

Graffiti is usually spray paint that building owners choose to have removed. Graffiti removal usually involves some pretty harsh chemical pressure washing techniques that could lead to paint, chemicals, and contaminated spray water leaching into ground water. Spray paint and its removal is anything but green! All that paper poster art wheat pasted up on walls in seemingly infinite repeats of some weekly concert isn't very green either, if you think about the volume of paper being used. There is nothing "Green" about this style.

I don't get it. This house looks empty and un-designed.

I couldn't help but be distracted by the bright light shining directly on the paintings. Please, please put a filter on that lamp or angle it away from those paintings. The heat and light will damage the painting. It seems like you like your antiques and curios, so it'd be good to protect them from light damage.
The adapted switchboard box should blend in nicely with all those things on the shelf. Good find!

I wanted to know how they made those wontons into perfect little circle bowls for crab salad croustades, but the recipe doesn't use wonton. It uses pre-packaged Rahm's croustades.

You are definitely facing a challenge with extracting color from seeds and then making paint from it. The pods of the plant contain a few seeds. The seeds only contain a small amount of color, probably about 5%. Extraction of color usually requires solvent. Water or oil would be your non-toxic choices for solvents. You could try grinding the seeds in water or oil to get color. Then strain the mixture to remove any plant matter. The bigger problem will be how it mixes with paint medium and also permanence. Because it is a natural dye, rather than a mineral pigment, you won't have good color permanence. With a color that may be very faint to begin with when mixed with paint, you may see very little color at all after the dye fades. Most natural dye colors are now mordanted on aluminum or iron to make the color more stable.

Wai is right, I am being snarky about it. Sometimes these posts have so short a blurb about a project that it's unclear what is "green" about the materials specifically mentioned. It's only made more confusing by a poor translation to English.

What a great place. I love the living room.

We had a Bagster when we renovated our bathroom. The truck did a drive-by and didn't pick up the bag. They told us our bag was too close to trees or power lines. We live on a tree-lined street. Bagster did not refund the pick-up fee when I called and cancelled the pickup, since there was no place we could have the bag picked up in our front yard.
Buyer beware.