Furniture & Lighting

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.

Light-emitting wallpaper

Light-emitting wallpaper

A reader writes in – An enterprising young designer from the Netherlands has invented what has to be the ultimate in home illumination – light emitting wallpaper. Hmm, from looking at the pic above, I’m guessing he’s not too excited about it – Techradar goes on to explain some of the contruction elements – “The […]

Rowboat powered sculpture

Rowboat powered sculpture

Maria Michails-Posidis made this exhibition, called “Emergy,” as her MFA thesis. It’s a modified rowing machine inside a hand-crafted boat that powers LED-backlit photographs in the gallery highlighting urban growth related to water use in the Phoenix area valley. She has kept a very detailed blog of the production process. Photos on Flickr tagged with […]

Who tall are you?

Who tall are you?

A Maker sent this in (Suck.uk.com), it’s a mirror (when positioned correctly) shows how tall you are compared to famous people, this would be a fun “remake” to create on your own but using friends, family, other versions of yourself if you’re growing “me at 10” “me at 11” and later when you’re shrinking, “me […]

Carpet sample competition

Carpet sample competition

The Ample Sample contest writes: More than 700,000 carpet samples will ship this year, helping architects and interior designers move closer to choosing the perfect carpet for installation into their projects. Ample Sample 2008 challenges you to “Rethink. Reuse. Upcycle”, and repurpose these samples, after their usefulness to a design project, to make a design […]

Posable ring light

Posable ring light

Drew sent us this ring light example. We’ve seen some clever DIY versions – this commercial design uses the battery pack as a base with a handy movable arm. This could definitely be a good remake. Related: DIY macro ring lights In the Maker store: ProdMod LED Camera Light Kit v1.1