Book

As part of celebrating the home in 2014 we published ‘Whole House Reuse: Deconstruction’, designed by Matthew Galloway.

The book celebrated the life of the home, and the Buxton family who lived there when it was condemned to what would have otherwise been a hasty demolition, crushed by a digger and into a truck to the large pile at Burwood which later became landfill.

The photographic essay of Guy Frederick below, captured the caring act of deconstruction led by the Silvan Salvage team with a great crew of volunteers led by Kate McIntyre.

The book also served an essential practical purpose for the project. It published the entire catalogue of materials from the home which enabled creatives to see and understand what they could choose to reuse in their Whole House Reuse project.

One day we hope to publish the entire project in book form to celebrate the purpose, wellbeing and connection that reuse of just one whole house created.