{"id":386712,"date":"2026-03-15T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/386712\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:20:14","slug":"eight-interiors-transformed-using-reclaimed-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/386712\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight interiors transformed using reclaimed materials"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hotel in a former military barracks and an urban apartment created on a budget feature in our latest lookbook<\/a> of intricate interiors that use reclaimed materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reclaimed materials encompass anything salvaged from buildings, products or other structures that are repurposed by architects and designers.<\/p>\n

While these materials are often used to cut the financial or carbon cost of a project, sometimes, they are simply applied to interiors to create visually interesting spaces.<\/p>\n

From Spain to India, the following eight interiors highlight just some of the many ways that practitioners are using reclaimed materials around the world.<\/p>\n

This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring home saunas<\/a>, Mexico City restaurants<\/a> and living rooms with blockwork walls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"La<\/a>Photo by Richard Gaston<\/p>\n

La Casita, UK, by Juli Bola\u00f1os-Durman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

La Casita is the Edinburgh<\/a> flat of Costa Rican artist Juli Bola\u00f1os-Durman, which she renovated with local studio Architecture Office.<\/p>\n

The flat is characterised by reused, reclaimed and offcut materials that were transformed into bespoke architectural elements, including a unique timber kitchen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Find out more about La Casita \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sancal<\/a>Photo by Asier Rua<\/p>\n

Sancal showroom, Spain, by Lucas Mu\u00f1oz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The aluminium undersides of existing flooring plates were turned into wall panels at this Madrid<\/a> showroom, created for furniture brand Sancal within the city’s 1966 O’Donnell 34 building.<\/p>\n

When converting the office, Spanish designer Lucas Mu\u00f1oz<\/a> reused all the materials from the original space that could not be recycled.<\/p>\n

“The office’s modular material approach allowed us to dismantle and re-consider each piece as a potential intervention element,” Mu\u00f1oz told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“Very little demolition was required, meaning recovered pieces could be evaluated according to their impact.”<\/p>\n

Find out more about this Sancal showroom \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Salt<\/a>Photo by Felix Speller<\/p>\n

Salt, UK, by THISS Studio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Local architecture practice THISS Studio<\/a> avoided contract furniture when designing this London<\/a> office, which was created from reclaimed materials found on the site or sourced second-hand.<\/p>\n

Conceived for independent PR studio Salt, the space includes a duo of tables created us using old steel catering surfaces purchased on eBay and crowned with tops made from leftover cork edged with white American oak.<\/p>\n

\"Jam<\/a>Photo by Stan Huaux<\/p>\n

Jam Hotel Ghent, Belgium, Studio Lionel Jadot<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Brussels firm Studio Lionel Jadot<\/a> transformed a former military barracks in\u00a0Ghent<\/a>, Belgium, into a hotel for the Jam Hotels brand.<\/p>\n

The studio worked with local artisans to craft contextually specific furniture solutions using found materials, including the blue flooring in the hotel bar made from old roof timber.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Jam Hotel Ghent \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>Photo by Syam Sreesylam<\/p>\n

The Wendy House, India, by Earthscape Studio<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Aiming to draw from the surrounding nature of this home in Kerala<\/a>, Earthscape Studio used locally sourced materials throughout the building, including recycled rods, broken tiles<\/a> and earth from the site.<\/p>\n

The Bengaluru practice used the recycled rods alongside waste wood to create the frames for built-in furniture, including a bed, sofa, and kitchen counter.<\/p>\n

Find out more about The Wendy House \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"10K<\/a>Photo by Jos\u00e9 Hevia<\/p>\n

10K House, Spain, by Takk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This Barcelona apartment<\/a> was completed by local studio Takk<\/a> using a material budget of 10,000 euros, with the aim of updating the home to be as sustainable as possible.<\/p>\n

The studio took cues from snugly stacked Russian dolls for the interior renovation, which features rooms nestled inside each other to maximise insulation.<\/p>\n

Recycled white table legs were used to lift interior spaces, creating room for water pipes and electrical fittings without the extra cost of adding wall grooves.<\/p>\n

Find out more about 10K House \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Circular<\/a>Photo by Magdalena Gruber<\/p>\n

Office interior, Germany, by Urselmann Interior\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Glueless joinery and a cellulose-based wall cladding feature in the D\u00fcsseldorf<\/a> studio of interior design company Urselmann Interior, which was renovated using biodegradable<\/a>, recycled or\u00a0upcycled materials.<\/p>\n

The studio completed the renovation project itself, salvaging existing wooden and\u00a0terrazzo flooring from the building.<\/p>\n

“The office serves us as a laboratory in that we can [use it to] test new qualities, materials and construction methods,” project manager Liz Thei\u00dfen told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Urselmann Interior’s office \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Traid<\/a>Photo by French & Tye<\/p>\n

Traid store, UK, by Hemingway Design and James Shaw<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Local designer James Shaw<\/a> created furniture for this store interior for London charity retailer Traid, using leftover second-hand clothes that Traid deemed unsellable.<\/p>\n

Known for repurposing waste materials, Shaw also created curved pendant lighting<\/a> from the old clothes, which were shredded back to fibres and combined with a plant-based binder.<\/p>\n

Find out more about this Traid store \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring home saunas<\/a>, Mexico City restaurants<\/a> and living rooms with blockwork walls<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hotel in a former military barracks and an urban apartment created on a budget feature in our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,87717,10357,12755,16192],"class_list":{"0":"post-386712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-reclaimed-materials","18":"tag-sectionall","19":"tag-sectioninteriors","20":"tag-sectionlookbooks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116234579252176463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}