The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics An interesting design exercise is to cut and fold furniture from one sheet of plywood. Peter Meijer has explored families of elliptical tables that are folded from exactly one rectangular sheet, with no unused remainder. In one family of experiments, he systematically varies the possible leg parameters, […]
Gulliver modded an Ikea chair into this stool for his dog and it actually looks like a dog. Very cute! [via Ikea Hackers]
I love this “flexible joinery” by Dag-designlab in Israel. From designboom: ‘Flexible joinery’ is made out of a silicone casting over an inner metal skeleton. Adaptable to a range of unconventional configurations, the pieces provide a joining technique that can be temporary and easily modifiable. They’re like twist ties for furniture!
This attractive partition, called ECOoler, designed by Mey Kahn and Boaz Kahn combines two traditional Middle-Eastern elements to create an environmentally friendly cooling system. One part Mashrabiya, an ornate architectural partition made of clay or cement bricks, the other part Jara, a clay jug that acts as an evaporative cooler. It’s comprised of slip cast ceramic tubular tiles that are joined together using common garden hose fittings and connected to a water supply.
Georgia hackerspace Freeside Atlanta needed countertops, so they made their own with chicken wire and concrete, while referencing this instructable. Freeside is a great space, but our kitchen could be charitably described as “needs work”. The countertops are old, difficult to keep clean, and just generally bad. What the heck, we’re a hacker space, right? […]
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. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube. There are […]
Way too pricey for me, but there’s plenty of detail in the pictures to inform a re-make of this oil drum cabinet.
