Beached submarine home theater
Kiwi businessman Wayne Eyre dropped a pretty penny on this fantasy home theater build, but the results are impressive.
Furniture & Lighting
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
Ikea hack bookshelf bench
Randy Sarafan writes: The nice thing about IKEA furniture is that it is cheap and easy to hack. In other words, lets say that you were to buy two cheap $30 Gorm shelving units and assembled them to discover them that one was crooked. Well then, it would be really easy to spend an afternoon […]
Paper chair, a chair carved from paper
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Here’s a neat idea from designers razy2. Instead of casting a chair out of foam or silicone, they decided to build one up layer by layer out of what looks like a giant Post-It pad.
Lie-Nielsen chain-drive shoulder vise
There are vises, and there are vises. And there are those of us for whom vises are also vices. For we few obsessives cognoscenti, the price of this beautifully-designed chain-drive shoulder vise package may not be unreasonable. For the mechanically inclined, a remake would be totally do-able, and Lie-Nielsen is to be credited for not keeping any secrets about how it all goes together. The installation instructions (.pdf) contain all you’d need to know to cobble together one of your own.
LEGO kitchen counter
Restrictive homeowners’ association preventing you from building your entire house out of LEGO? To help convince them of the importance of the brick, why not start by building a LEGO kitchen, like this one from designers Simon Pillard and Philippe Rosett. While not made entirely of lego (there is a fiberboard counter underneath the brick), […]
Chair made of drinking straws
Scott Jarvie made this Clutch Chair using more than 10,000 drinking straws. This one is apparently an art piece rather than an actual chair, but it seems like it should be possible to make a functional one using this method as well.
“SuperFoam” block collapses into chair under weight
I got jealous of Matt’s recent “SuperFoam” chair post and had to find one of my own. This one is from a Taiwanese design student named Yu-Wing Wu. The voids are non-random, being carefully designed to collapse into the shape of an armchair when you sit on the thing, which in its resting state looks more like a giant block of tofu than a chair.
