Not a week goes by without someone concerned about the environment asking me what they can do with their old innertubes or bikes.  There are certainly some outfits like Alchemy, Green Guru or Vy & Elle that will re-purpose old tubes or vinyl banners into useful bike messenger bags, but that doesn’t quite put a dent in the amount of tubes or old bikes we send to the landfill in this country every day.

Enter: Bike Furniture!  Andy Gregg of Marquette, Michigan has been perfecting his furniture since 1990.  That’s a fair amount of time to figure out how to turn an old Serotta that had a fateful meeting with a cattle grate into a flashy lawn chair.    (You’ll find just that on his website under the “chair” then “stuffed” line).   In fact, none of the furniture is stuffed and instead uses bike tubes for upholstery.  

I am lucky to have been given one of these chairs last year and I can attest to the comfort of tube upholstery.   It’s firm, yet springy.  Even better you can simply hose the whole thing off if it gets dusty.  That’s my kind of furniture.  Check it out here: www.bikefurniture.com