The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
This lamp is built from 121 recycled plastic knives collected over the course of countless BVD group lunches from a fried chicken restaurant. Pretty funny that it actually resembles something that people would pay a lot of money for, but costs less than the lunches it was taken from. BVD Collective, [via]
These are really interesting tables made by teenagers in Boston. They are perfect for a remake, but you will feel really good about purchasing one too, since it’s for a good cause. Boston’s Artists for Humanity have an apprentice program that is housed in an award-winning “green” building that inspired the teenagers to create a […]
At the flick of a switch this desk becomes a full size light table. That can be very handy if you shoot traditional film and video. But that’s not all this desk does. Wait until the end of the video to see the motorized height adjustment. Now that’s a great desk! Via – SwissMiss – […]
Joe of HacknMod writes: Here’s an awesome DIY lighting system for you. This guy set up a wicked system that can be controlled by the colors displayed on his TV (similar to Phillip’s Ambilight) or by controlling it with his BlackBerry. He used an LED-Wiz controller to control various RBG LED displays thorough the room. […]
Translation: It’s a desk lamp made from old CDs, with LED lights, powered by a PC USB port. Not the prettiest lamp on the desk, but you could obviously design it however you wish. The USB powered LED CD lamp
Dug sent in this page on the topic of secret compartments for furniture. Beyond the drawer, the table featured actually has a double-secret hidden box. – Hidden Drawers [via Automata/Automaton blog] Related: HOW TO – Build your own secret bookshelf door In the Maker Shed: Woodworkers Pocket Ref
Todd Lappin, MAKE contributor and current guest blogger on Dinosaurs and Robots, has a strange collection compulsion that I don’t share, but I can totally understand. He has a control panel fetish. Hey, now. Don’t judge. Everybody is wired differently. Todd just happens to be wired to toggle switches, panel lights, and needle gauges. And […]
