The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
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 […]
Anthony Pego, aka Reddit user pegothejerk, says, “I built a robot dresser out of end table scraps I found on the side of the road. My nephew is going to freak.”
Pictures of the construction process reveal that the dresser seems, actually, to be mostly built from stock lumber, with the found object serving as base, frame, and/or inspiration. [Thanks, Marc!]
Grill your grub at the center of the Earth with this globe-shaped cooker.
Stools colored, printed, and arranged to suggest a giant numeric keypad. Totally useless, and completely delightful. Also somewhat enigmatic, at least to my shamefully monolingual brain. The photo appears to originate from this Japanese site called Pantograph, which, sadly, I cannot read. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
I agree with longtime MAKE pal Alan Dove that this modernist fish tank is just “crying out for a re-make.” Also, anyone curious about building their own fish tanks should check out this tutorial over at Cichlid-forum.com. [Thanks, Alan!] More: Infinity-pool fish tank Lego fish tank Fish swim around the house, in a custom aquarium […]
Ben Light made jar lamps as presents for his family’s DIY holiday gift exchange.
I’m not a carpenter by training, but I have built a lot of simple furniture, and blogged about a lot of simple furniture, and one of the rules of thumb I’ve picked up from the pros is that threading screws into end grain is a big no-no. Wood is not an isotropic material, because of the grain, and is relatively weak in that direction. But sometimes putting screw in end-grain is the best/simplest way to do things, and until I saw this simple trick from woodgears.ca, the only way I knew to do it was to use a barrel nut or some other relatively unusual and expensive fastener designed for the purpose.
