Furniture & Lighting

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

Flashback: Random Screen

I love low-tech emulations of high tech objects, and when they employ recycled materials, what could be better? This week’s Flashback comes from the pages of the very first volume of CRAFT, published back in 2006. Aram Bartholl showed us how to make a 16-pixel display from old cans, tea lights, paper, and wire. Check […]

Wooden lamp kit

Wooden lamp kit

From the MAKE Flickr pool: This cute assemble-yourself lamp is available in kit form from the Chinese website GeekCook.net (?) and costs 78 yuan. Mangled translation courtesy of Google: Impetuous anxiety in this vast land, and we afford to dream of a moment’s peace. In the night, lit one for himself only to his own […]

CNCed lampshade

CNCed lampshade

Portuguese Thingiverse user Gonçalo Azevedo created a lampshade called Strømg Lump Leaks: The used technique is self supporting interlocking of pieces (without gluing, screwing or nailing) of 547 different pieces of polypropylene routed with a three-axis CNC. The DXFs may be downloaded from the Thingiverse page.