Cheap Metal Hooks Turn Sticks to DIY Wooden Coat Hangers
on Nov 7, 2009 in Furnishings Odds & Ends clever clothes coat design diy hanger home project recycling simple Like some kind of modern green alchemy, the genius of this DIY design idea is in its extreme simplicity. It requires two objects that are easy to acquire – one you can buy for a few cents and the other you can find anywhere on the ground –...

Contemporary Kitchen: Simple Modern Black & White Design
on Nov 7, 2009 in Interiors Kitchens black contemporary design interior kitchen modern white For some people, a kitchen is a place for colorful decoration – a messy gathering space that will never quite be clean. For others, keeping order is of utmost importance, making simple modern kitchen cabinets, smooth steel surfaces and black-an...

Swimming Cities: Floating Trash or Modern Pirate Treasure?
on Nov 6, 2009 in Architecture House Boats art boat floating house recycled reused scrap water wood Set against the backdrop of a contemporary city skyline, this ramshackle collection of recycled parts looks as much like a half-sunk pirate ship of pile of floating debris as it does a functional floating hobo-style hodgepodge home. But these are not...

Eating Thin: Extremely Skinny Dining Room Table Design
on Nov 6, 2009 in Furniture Tables & Stands art design dining narrow skinny table wood It seems almost impossible to imagine a dining room table with essentially no surface area – after all, having a flat place to set down your plates and silverware is almost an assumed part of this central and ubiquitous piece of home furniture...

Swimming Cities: Floating Trash or Modern Pirate Treasure?
on Nov 6, 2009 in Architecture House Boats art boat floating house recycled reused scrap water wood Set against the backdrop of a contemporary city skyline, this ramshackle collection of recycled parts looks as much like a half-sunk pirate ship of pile of floating debris as it does a functional floating hobo-style hodgepodge home. But these are not...

Artists Rework Waterworks into Live-&-Work Studio Space
on Nov 5, 2009 in Architecture Converted artist big cheap city home huge interior space urban Some people saw this old industrial water pumping station as an eyesore, a giant architectural relic out of place and scale in its now-residential semi-urban surroundings near the middle of contemporary downtown Berlin. An artistic duo, however, saw...

Artists Rework Waterworks into Live-&-Work Studio Space
on Nov 5, 2009 in Architecture Converted artist big cheap city home huge interior space urban Some people saw this old industrial water pumping station as an eyesore, a giant architectural relic out of place and scale in its now-residential semi-urban surroundings near the middle of contemporary downtown Berlin. An artistic duo, however, saw...

How to: Recycle a Rubber Hose into a Cheap & Comfy Chair
on Nov 5, 2009 in Do-It-Yourself More chair cheap diy easy garden hose make metal rubber wood Clean modern lines, wood and metal supports … one could almost imagine this being sold at your local contemporary furniture store for thousands of dollars. Except: that comfortable-looking lining threaded between the structural frame is an ordi...

Dead Houses: Crafted in Memory of Lost & Destroyed Homes
on Nov 5, 2009 in Art of Design More art bizarre craft deserted design home house Sure, some of us ‘love’ our homes … but few of us wonder if a house can ‘die’. There is a fascinating 18th-and-19th-Century tradition of grieving loved by taking and braiding, knitting or otherwise working the hair of th...

Dead Houses: Crafted in Memory of Lost & Destroyed Homes
on Nov 5, 2009 in Art of Design More art bizarre craft deserted design home house Sure, some of us ‘love’ our homes … but few of us wonder if a house can ‘die’. There is a fascinating 18th-and-19th-Century tradition of grieving loved by taking and braiding, knitting or otherwise working the hair of th...