The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Musical chairs anyone? eh? … Verizon’s How 2.0 brings another interesting DIY music project to the table, fitting a set of organ pipes and bellows to a seat. Prolonged operation of the instrument would likely provide a bit of a workout. Skip ahead to ~2m50s to hear it sound-off. Build details available here – Pipe […]
Instuctables user wholman (out of Arcosanti, AZ) whipped up a how-to for this chair made from an old metal sign. Looks like a lot of his projects are made from signs featuring the name of a relative of his! More: Tennis ball chair
This is a nicely documented project that successfully recovers a 1940’s chair. I really like the first step of the build: Tear up the quote from the professional upholsterer amounting to close to $1,500. You can sew, use a staple gun and a hammer – how hard can it be. Read more about how to […]
Ted crafted a fitting set of stairs for his skateboard deck building school – This is a set of steps I made for our skateboard school. The aluminium beam is a solid billet of aluminium and the decks were custom made with concave only on one edge. You should see the look on our students […]
The “Sound of Light ” by Matthew Fernandez is a case made for a flourescent tube light that was made by recording and graphic 1 second of the “hum” sound produced by the light. The pattern was made by laser cutting clear acrylic and 50 layers of the substance were uses where each layer corresponds […]
Don’t give up on the stacks of your local library as a source for project ideas. “Low Tech: Fast Furniture For Next To Nothing” was last printed in 1984, but it was well worth a browse. 4 of my favorite projects: Bike seat / frame to barstool. Kind of obvious when you see it, huh? […]
Straps Band Chair by Yahïa Ouled-Moussa looks like it has nice re-make potential via Book of Joe.
