The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Out of all of the PCB furniture I’ve seen, I think these Binary Chairs use the beige box materials most creatively. The computer case frame, the woven seats made from ethernet and ribbon cable– swoon! BNR011000110110100001100001011010010111001001- 00110001 (low chair with cushion) BNR011000110110100001100001011010010111001001- 00110010 (high back chair) [via Core77]
I really dig this street sign furniture by Texas-based designer Tim Delger, who classifies it as art, furniture, and stolen government property. [via Unconsumption] More: Bulletproof Binder
In this episode of Tiny Yellow House for MAKE, host Derek “Deek” Diedricksen shows us one of his salvage uses for freebie pallet wood— an ultra-simple deck chair that cost him 89 cents (screws/nails) to build.
If you want an extension cord, power cord, or other plastic-insulated cable in an unusual color, and you can find one in white, there’s a good chance you can dye it to suit your preference using this technique.
Turns out many cables are sheathed with PVC, and will take the same oil-based stains as PVC pipe. If you want a purple cord, for instance, you can just treat a white PVC cord with purple primer. If you want some other color, it is easy to prepare your own custom stains from clear PVC cleaner and concentrated solvent dyes.
Chris from The New Hobbyist has a black desk but a white grommet for cables to run through, so he decided to model and print a new one with black plastic on his MakerBot. (It’s shown above installed in a white surface for illustrative purposes; it blended in too well with his black desk.) He […]
I built an elevated platform so I could try working at a standing desk. It’s 11.5 inches high, and I built it from .75″ x .75″ sticks and .5″ plywood. I added lots of triangular bracing and then sat on it to make sure it could hold my 27″ iMac without collapsing. I just started […]
Jaxan of Sacramento, CA, built a N-scale model train into an Ikea “Liatorp” coffee table. [Via Ikea Hackers]
