Faux Marble Table
Poppytalk is such a lovely blog for inspiration, decor, and cool DIY projects, like this DIY faux marble tabletop project.
Furniture & Lighting
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
How-To: Vintage-Inspired Distressed Finish
Sometimes you get lucky and stumble upon that perfectly aged antique piece that magically pulls the rest of a room together. But, for those times when the local flea market just isn’t cutting it, get the look with a vintage-inspired distressed finish!
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino: Making the Good Night Lamp
Last March, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino registered a new limited company in London, and booked a booth at CES, the consumer electronics trade show, taking place 10 months later. She had no team, and only a dated prototype product that she had designed back in 2005. “I thought what’s the biggest kick in the ass that I […]
Ikea Cabinets Transformed Into Lego Storage
Martin Storbeck of Böblingen, Germany, noticed that Ikea’s Bestå cabinet doors looked an awful lot like Lego bricks, so why not decorate them as such to hold his collection of actual Legos? Martin created a slideshow showing how he made the doors — spoiler: with coasters as the Lego studs. [via Ikea Hackers]
Furniture Building Set
Joscha Weiand’s Loose Joints is a set of wooden poles and a variety of connectors that can be used to make shelving, chairs, and other accoutrements for the home. [via Doornob]
DIY Union Jack Dresser
Lovely Indeed shows an excellent idea for personalizing a simple piece of furniture by adding a bold design with this DIY Union Jack dresser
MAKE Asks: Building Furniture
MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
