Tag Archives: student furniture

Our Paper Life and Otter Creek

We are happy to announce that last Saturday, March 23rd we meet with Robert Abbott of Otter Creek to sign a distribution agreement for Canadian distribution! We are very excited to be working with Robert and his team, who are based in Tilsonburg Ontario. Look for our products to appear in stores in the coming [...]

OPL at Burning Man 2012

OPL @ Burning Man

I went to the Burning Man festival this August with a few friends (60,000)… and brought Our Paper Life’s furniture to use around camp over the seven days of the festival. We cooked on it. Drank on it. Spilt on it,  did everything on it. It held up great. On the final evening of the [...]

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65% Reduction in Packaging Size!

Here at Our Paper Life we pride ourselves on providing quality furniture with as little fuss as possible.  This includes the packaging our furniture comes in. Over the course of our first year as a company we have worked to reduce the size of the packaging for our shelf+desk by 65%. This means that shipping, [...]

Household Considerations

The end of school term brings with it massive piles of trash.  Driving around University Campuses in Ontario on move in/out day the sidewalks are jammed with fibreboard furniture: often broken and smashed because it is too difficult to take apart, and on closer inspection the situation becomes even more reprehensible: ALL of that furniture [...]

White Shelves and Desks!

Just in time for students heading back to school, we are happy to announce the introduction of 100% recyclable white shelves and desks!  Combining all of the strength, durability, waterproofing and sustainability of our products but now with a slick white!! Check the out store page for more info! -Geoff, Chris, Jordan and Rob

The Stop’s Night Market this Wednesday

We were happy today to meet Danielle Goldfinger who has been putting the finishing touches on the Night Market this Wednesday in the Honest Ed’s alley. She took some time out of her day to give us a tour of their main location at 1884 Davenport. We walked into the community kitchen to the smell [...]