The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Alan Parekh of Winnipeg makes these sweet component-symbol coasters from 1/4″ plywood, sealed with polyurethane varnish. Ten bucks gets a set of six: resistor R1, inductor L2, LED D3, capacitor C4, transistor Q5, and ground GND. Good-looking, clever, and easy on the wallet.
Edo Kriegsmann designed and built this futuristic looking interactive lighting syster for his staircase.
A Portland contractor builds a secret playroom behind an armoire destined to launch a thousand Narnia jokes.
A glass-top table supported by a group of what appear to boulders may be to your taste. If so, that’s cool. This one from Brazilian designer Domingos Tótora is called the Agua Table. But even if not, I thought the process of making the “rocks” from a paste of old cardboard boxes and glue was pretty interesting. I speculate that Sr. Totora actually started out by experimenting with the cardboard-paste process, figured out he could make fake boulders using it, then cast about for awhile trying to find a use for the cool fake boulders he’d just taught himself to make. Slapping a piece of tempered glass on it and calling it a coffee table has worked for a lot of other designers… [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
Joby Elliott made this DIY overhead kitchen rack using about $40 worth of parts from Home Depot.
Ryan Fuchs of Minneapolis knows how to live! He converted a small fridge into a kegerator, then built this neat dispenser to serve it up. The catch? The kegerator is in the basement, and the dispenser is in his kitchen. Once the new beer was coupled and the temperature stabilized, I tried the first beer […]
Ottawa native Andrew O’Malley makes these beautiful animated light sculptures, featuring finely crafted cases, hand-built electronics, and custom programming to achieve, as he puts it, “entertaining behavior through a playful balance between rules and randomness”:
