Furniture & Lighting

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

24 free sawhorse plans

ToolCrib has a roundup of free sawhorse plans, and if you can’t find what you’re looking for in a sawhorse there, I don’t know where you will. Unless, of course, you’ve designed your own. Please share your plans with us in the comments! Via Core77. Image from Woodworkingtips.com.

Ski Shelf

Ski Shelf

Neale writes in: Here’s a quick and easy DIY project to make a shelf out of a ski. It’s a decent use for something people might have lying around, or can at least find pretty easily at yard sales (well, easy up here in the north). More: Snowboard bench

Milk crate chandelier and roundup

Milk crate chandelier and roundup

Milk crates are very versitile, and for many, a college staple. Often it doesn’t take more than a few bungee cords or a length of rope to turn a few into whatever storage or furniture solution you need. Here’s a chandelier made from several. The linked article also has several other milk crate furniture mods. […]

Robotic furniture: The RoboStool

Steve sent in his latest project, the RoboStool. It uses a Parallax Propeller chip, and motor mount kit, to navigate in 3 different ways. It can use a “beacon” mode to navigate or be controlled via a universal remote. It can even be put in “follow” mode, which uses thermal sensing to follow the user […]