Furniture & Lighting

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

Carbon fiber draft tower

Carbon fiber draft tower

Raelx made this absolutely sick draft tower for his keggerator with carbon fiber. DIY alert, however, the guy works for Cannondale, so he’s got primo access to supplies and tools. He includes some nice construction photos, too. Related: Carbon fiber Macbook Air Making a Carbon Fiber Bike frame From the pages of MAKE: Working with […]

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Making uber Ikea lamps

Making uber Ikea lamps

In this Instructable, the builder combines a bunch of $5 Ikea “Lampans” into larger spherical, Platonic-y lamps. Big lamps from Ikea lampan lamps

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AC-powered LED benchlight

AC-powered LED benchlight

A medium difficulty Instructable to fix a circular magnifier work lamp by converting to a very low energy, high reliability alternative light source that avoids using mercury contaminated florescent light bulbs. AC Powered White LED Circular Magnifier Work Lamp – Link

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