Furniture & Lighting

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

Greebly Coffee Table From E-Waste

Greebly Coffee Table From E-Waste

Though we see lots of furniture built from old computer parts, electronics, and other scrap, I especially like this one because I think it provides an object lesson in how to do this sort of thing and make it look good: Greeble it up! When youโ€™re basically just glomming bits together to achieve a utilitarian form, the more visual complexity you can achieve in the surface texture, the better.

Furniture Made From Close-Packed Tennis Balls

Furniture Made From Close-Packed Tennis Balls

Actually these HEX chairs from designer Hugh Hayden made the rounds back in 2009, but theyโ€™re just now coming across my radar via this round-up of tennis ball furniture that recently tripped one of my Google auto-alerts. There are plenty of unusual chairs in the world, and though I like these better than many, Iโ€™m more interested in Haydenโ€™s process for joining the tennis balls together.

Make: Projects – Glass Bead Projection Screen

Make: Projects – Glass Bead Projection Screen

Hereโ€™s a method for applying a high-gain optical projection surface using common, inexpensive materialsโ€”specifically, flat white interior latex paint and glass sandblasting media. It began as a series of experiments to produce a DIY โ€œscreen paintโ€ by directly mixing these two ingredients. Though failing in themselves, these tests led to the serendipitous discovery of this process.