Lasercut pendant light
Thingiverse user Rob Ward of Melbourne created this teardrop light fixture out of laser-cut 3mm MDF. He also created a similar desk lamp. Very nice!
Furniture & Lighting
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Make: Projects – Hang a picture from a pull tab
When I was a teenager, we had a distinctly impolite name for a pull tab that had been removed from the can with the rivet ring still intact, said name being based on a persistent urban legend about the alleged redemption value of these relatively rare tabs. I can assure you, dear readers, that legend has nothing to do with the reason I am familiar with this handy trick for removing pull tabs with the ring intact every time. Turns out, a tab with an intact rivet ring is quite useful for mounting to wooden frames as a picture hanger. And I, you know, have to hang up lots of pictures. Seriously.
Global clock shows 11 time zones at the same time
The difference between GLOBAL CLOCK and normal clocks is: GLOBAL CLOCK has a disc hour hand (hour dial) instead of normal needle hour hand. On the disc hour hand, many cities or countries’ names and arrows are printed. The disc hour hand turns clockwise as normal clock needle hour hand does. By this unique simple […]
Cylon toilet paper dispenser
From Etsy seller Supertrone. Welded steel with classic scanning LED bar.
DIY Convertible Table
Space is at a huge premium in my tiny apartment, which is why I absolutely adore Noëlle’s hacked dual-purpose table. Using an adjustable trestle for legs (available at hardware or home stores), it can easily convert from a coffee table to a dining table. She even used a pair of curtain rods attached underneath the […]
Suitcase furniture
Arwen @ CRAFT spotted this neat upcycled suitcase furniture, made by upholstering (and presumably adding springs to) charming old luggage.
Ingenious Hong Kong micro-apartment
MAKE Engineering Intern Eric Chu sent me the link to this cool video of a tiny 24 “room” apartment in Hong Kong. Using a system of tracked/rolling walls, the owner-builder is able to transform the space from living, cooking, dining, sleeping, and other areas. And think of all of the exercise he gets yanking those […]
