Recycled plastic bag chair
Ryan Frank’s inkuku chair (Zulu for chicken) is constructed from recycled aluminum coated in plastic bags via Giz.
Furniture & Lighting
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Turning-drawer wooden safe
My pal Alex Schlegel writes: The 13 drawers of this band-saw box rotate rather than open outward. Objects for safekeeping are placed into the large, central drawer through a hole in the bottom of the box. Since the arrows on the front of each drawer point toward the drawer’s open side, objects may be moved […]
Car hoods make good coffee tables
From the Cool Hunting blog: Using hoods from vintage American cars, Joel Hester handcrafts coffee tables in his Dallas, TX studio. Taking advantage of the bright colors of yesteryear and the patterns created by oxidization, the one-of-a-kind steel pieces add industrial chic to living rooms. While I’m sure his work is worth the $850 price […]
Concrete Lamp
Instructables user hands_on made this concrete lamp from concrete, glass, and steel, three materials I’m trying to wrap my head around recently myself. The lamp is really very modern, and I think it would look very lovely on a desert porch or in a museum lobby!
Tetrahedral lamp turns on by turning over
Sean’s sp3 lamp is really lighting sculpture. Constructed from outdoor lighting fixtures, the lamp is controlled via an internal tilt switch – activated when the piece is rolled onto another one of its sides – “sp3” is a term that chemists use to describe the hybridization of orbitals of a particular atom in a molecule. […]
Bottlecap lamp will impress your friends and save the planet
After using all of those plastic bottles to sail across the Pacific Ocean (see above post), what better way to re-use them and their discarded caps than to make a lamp. The “Captivate” lamp by Lucy Norman is constructed of the bottles as well as their caps which can be intechanged to change the color […]
HOW TO – sliding pants rack
Instructables user phantazn writes: I bought a wardrobe from ikea to store my work clothes in. While walking around at ikea, I came across a Pax wardrobe with a Komplement pants hanger on rails. Unfortunately, they did not make them in the size for the cheapo Kullen wardrobe I bought, and I sure as hell […]
