DIY batlamp
Feel like you are missing something in your life? It’s probably because you don’t have your own batsignal. Fortunately, thanks to Philipp Tiefenbacher, you can build your own with these plans to make a batlamp.
Furniture & Lighting
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Translucent-thin turned wooden lampshades
The wood of choice is the knot clusters in the Southern White Pine. The outer shape of the shade is turned first. After the outside shape is turned the wood is treated with two thick coats of epoxy. After this dries the inner side of the shade is turned. The thickness of the shades varies from 1/32 to 3/32 of an inch, depending upon the translucent properties of the particular wood and the final desired color of the glowing wood. The final thickness of the shade is achieved by turning the inside of the shade in the dark with the workpiece backlit.
Handmade recycled oak wine barrel furniture
Etsy sellers Stil Novo Design make one-off hand-crafted furniture from reclaimed French white oak wine barrel staves. The pieces are good-looking and quite reasonably priced for handmade furniture. [Thanks, Camilla!]
Modern Victorian home restoration
Over at Steampunk Workshop, Jake pays a visit to the home of Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum, in Sharon, Mass. Bruce and Melanie run ModVic, a Victorian home restoration company. They’ve also embraced the steampunk aesthetic and do steampunk mods, as they’ve done in their own amazing home, seen here. A Visit to a Steampunked Home
USB sofa – never lose your flash drive again
For those bored by the portability of thumb drives, a 14GB furniture set designed to encourage data sharing – The sofas were made by creative design studio Cabracega for last year’s International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture (OFFF). As you can see (you’ll have to squint a little) the sofas have USB cables coming […]
Pop-up cardboard office
What could be cooler than pop-up books dioramas? How about if they are life-sized? That’s exactly what designers Liddy Scheffknecht and Armin B. Wagner have created with their pop-up office.
Robolamps
Croatian designer Robert Matysiak has made a delightful array of these “robolamps” by cobbling together “a bunch of plumbing supplies and green light bulbs.”
