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Recycling Center

A unique home store that transforms trash into treasures

J.E.M. Home

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orget the new stuff from the chain stores that makes your house look like everybody else's. Take a piece of old New England home with you from J.E.M. Home, which refurbishes industrial parts and other bric-a-brac into one-of-a-kind furniture and art—a pine-slab table supported by salvaged iron machine parts, for example. Or a mirror made from a cross section of a giant iron pipe. There are smaller pieces, too, including vases, light fixtures, and figurines, along with imports, local art, and treasures fished from flea markets all over the region, displayed in a brightly painted-and-exposed-brick sunlit industrial space. Nesin

Shhhh! By owner/furniture designer
Jane Miller. Yes, those are her initials.

Shhhh! Some of this stuff is heavy.
There's a coffee table that weighs a ton.

Shhh who knew

American manufacturers toss out 7.6 billion tons of waste per year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

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470 Shawmut Ave.
Boston, MA, 02118
617.391.0490
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Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

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