Furniture & Lighting

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

Modern cat house

Michelle @ CRAFT points us to Leo Kempf, who writes: I made this house for my cat, Olive. She enters through a door in the bottom side and then ascends a ramp, which boosts her to the upper level. The front wall is plexi-glass, the floor is 2.5 inch thick old sheepskin rug, and my […]

Space Invader coffee table

Space Invader coffee table

Sean Ragan writes: This is a coffee table incorporating a tiled “space invaders” motif. Several years ago tiled space invader sprites began showing up as graffiti in major western cities–Paris, London, New York, etc. It may never be possible to accurately say who was really first, but the British graffiti collective at space-invaders.com has a […]

LED concrete furniture

LED concrete furniture

Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, nickjohnson writes: I made a strange piece of modern furniture with concrete and LEDs. I built this by first constructing a mold out of MDF, and by embedding LEDs into the surface of the mold. The control/batteries are located behind a panel on the bottom, and all the wires […]

Tell time with color samples

Tell time with color samples

“Pantime” is a clock by James Beattie that uses the Pantone colors to visualize the sun’s luminance in the sky over the course of a 12 hour period. Interesting way to visualize time and reminds me a bit of the Last Clock project that uses video feeds to visualize time over the course of a […]