Discarded Dreams: Mattress Upcycle Contest!

Ever wonder what you could do with an old mattress? It’s pretty easy to think of ways to reused discarded clothing and bottles and cans, but a mattress?

That is the challenge set forth in Open Architecture Network’s contest: Discarded Dreams.

With over 40 million mattresses discarded every year in the U.S., this challenge asks that over 80% of the mattress be reused. Careful consideration should be made to the mattress’ deconstruction, as the Open Architecture Network is looking for a way to divert these mattresses away from the landfill and into new life.

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This challenge might be out of the range of some crafters, but nonetheless, it got me to thinking about this very cool vest that I saw a while back. Craftster user ashabelle, took the top of a mattress and made a vest out of the padding.

This is just some of the genius that I expect to see in the entries of the Discarded Dreams Contest but on a bigger scale. Can you think of other ways to reuse mattresses?

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