Don’t have a chair? Grow your own.
Almost 100 years ago, John Krubsack made this amazing chair by growing a bunch of box elder trees together.
Furniture & Lighting
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for making furniture and home decor for every room in the house, including the garage.
How-To: Polished concrete desk
Instructables user hivoltage shows us how to pour and polish a concrete desk top, even with some embedded fiber optic cables. Looks great!
Fancy colored plywood
I like these integral-color plywood materials from Brookside Veneers. Pricey but neat looking.
How-To: Turn shelf fungi into actual shelves
Natalie at the CRAFT blog just posted Paul Baxendale’s cool mushroom-shelf-making tutorial and I think it belongs over here, too.
How-To: Skate box
If you skate park is too crowded or you don’t have one at all, try following Instructables user nonoodlez’s guide to making a light, easy skate box.
Y-Wing bunk completes a scifi bedroom
If the kids aren’t keen on slumbering Empire-style consider this excellent example of Rebel-based bedding. Wow – hard to believe the home its installed in is up for sale! [via Gizmodo] More: Star Wars AT-AT loft bed
Skateboard stools
I spotted these nifty stools on the Inhabitat blog and immediately had two thoughts — these are super cool(!), and there’s gotta be a way to use the 6 or so skateboards scattered in my yard to make one myself (or a close facsimile thereof). After these thoughts, I immediately went to the maker’s website […]
