Brilliant UFO abduction lamp.
Your blood puddle pillows are in.
Clean your dishwasher with Lemonade Kool-Aid.
Clever light bulb design.
Days Ago digital day counters are small gadgets that attach to your food containers via suction and magnets to keep a running count of how many days ago you put your leftovers in the fridge.
Scrabble furniture.
Handy way to skip all the intro crap on DVDs that is usually forced on you when you throw a disc in your player. Apparently the chapters on DVDs that you can't skip (FBI warnings, copyright stuff, etc.) are flagged, on the disc, as UOP, or User Operation Prohibited. This site lists some of the techniques you can try to skip the ennui.
This colour coordinated bookshelf looks cool, but you might have a hard time finding a particular title.
For chewie edge lovers or corner brownie fans - it's the Edge Brownie Pan. All edges, all the time. Via BoingBoing
Puzzle carpet.
This to That is a handy site that will tell you what adhesive to use when attempting to glue various objects together.
Super creative bathroom tiles.
Skinny house in Brazil.
Apparently there are many LED lightbulbs available already. Via TreeHugger
WiiRoomba. YouTube of a guy controlling his Roomba with a Wii remote.
Hardcore Lost fans have a party and repackage the snacks and beer as Dharma Initiative rations. Make your own with the PDFs that they've so generously shared.
Here's a nice set of home improvement videos with the energetic and snappy Eric Stromer.
Faucet Fountain turns your regular faucet into a drinking fountain.
Kids and the Home Office. Here's a list of tips for the parent that works from home.
Save the Internet.
Your blood puddle pillows are in.
Clean your dishwasher with Lemonade Kool-Aid.
Clever light bulb design.
Days Ago digital day counters are small gadgets that attach to your food containers via suction and magnets to keep a running count of how many days ago you put your leftovers in the fridge.
Scrabble furniture.
Handy way to skip all the intro crap on DVDs that is usually forced on you when you throw a disc in your player. Apparently the chapters on DVDs that you can't skip (FBI warnings, copyright stuff, etc.) are flagged, on the disc, as UOP, or User Operation Prohibited. This site lists some of the techniques you can try to skip the ennui.
This colour coordinated bookshelf looks cool, but you might have a hard time finding a particular title.
For chewie edge lovers or corner brownie fans - it's the Edge Brownie Pan. All edges, all the time. Via BoingBoing
Puzzle carpet.
This to That is a handy site that will tell you what adhesive to use when attempting to glue various objects together.
Super creative bathroom tiles.
Skinny house in Brazil.
Apparently there are many LED lightbulbs available already. Via TreeHugger
WiiRoomba. YouTube of a guy controlling his Roomba with a Wii remote.
Hardcore Lost fans have a party and repackage the snacks and beer as Dharma Initiative rations. Make your own with the PDFs that they've so generously shared.
Here's a nice set of home improvement videos with the energetic and snappy Eric Stromer.
Faucet Fountain turns your regular faucet into a drinking fountain.
Kids and the Home Office. Here's a list of tips for the parent that works from home.
Save the Internet.
Festive Lighted Glass Block Howto
This was posted late last year, but since few people actually saw it at the time, it probably doesn't hurt to repost it. If you've got a drill, some mini lights and a glass block lying around then free up about 4 minutes and you can make this happen.
Nice Handmade Wooden Baths by Driftwood
Driftwood produces these beautiful wooden baths that are handcrafted by experienced boat builders. From the site:Skills and materials honed and tested in the demanding boatbuilding industry mean you don't have to worry about your bath ever springing a leak. Indeed, keep the stopper firmly in and you could probably paddle your bath quite safely. And because our baths rely on marine technology they are designed for a far more ravaging environment then your bathroom.
Furthermore:
Each wall is built using a strip building technique where narrow wooden strips are locked one to the next using a boat building technique called cove and beading. This technique means the walls behave as single sheets of wood. Each strip is individually cut, placed and bent to perfectly shape and seal your bath. The floors of each bath are built from over 25mm (1 inch) of wood. This might sound excessive but it prevents any possibility of creep and sagging with age, ensuring your bath floor will always remain sound and true.
The baths must be quite a hit with people as the site is closed to new orders, according to a notice on the homepage. That or it just takes them years to build one.
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Waterfall Fireplaces by Hearthfalls
You got your fireplace in my waterfall! You got your waterfall in my fireplace!Sorry.
Hearthfalls manufactures interesting "fireplace waterfalls" that are unlike anything you may have seen before (less, of course, fireplaces and waterfalls). The concept is simple - a waterfall runs within a fireplace immediately in front of the flames to produce a visually interesting piece of art that also offers the soothing sounds of flowing water. Whether or not this will work for people is still to be determined, as the unique design is sure to dichotomize opinion, as any such departure from the traditional would.
Hearthfalls also offers some less expensive "Lightweight " units. The Lightweights are waterfalls made for retrofitting existing fireplaces.
Try to visualize one in your home with the company's interactive fireplace and room designer or just view the existing installations in the gallery here.
Reservoir Dogs Poster Made from Entire Handwritten Script
Like the Scarface poster before it, this Reservoir Dogs poster from L.A. Pop Art is created using the entire, handwritten (and legible) script. Add it to your movie poster collection in your home theatre, or give it as a gift to the Reservoir Dogs fan in your life. We purchased the Scarface poster and had it plaque-mounted as a gift for a serious Scarface fan in our family and it proved to be quite the hit. Sometimes it's fun just searching for the numerous obscenities scattered throughout the thousands of words...
Cool Geeky TIX LED Clock
Geek out your office or basement with the TIX space clock of the future. Once you learn how to read it, telling time is a breeze. Whether or not you choose to tell your friends how to decipher the seemingly random flashing LEDs is up to you. From the site:Video clip of the TIX in action here (wmv video file).
Your DNA as Art
DNA 11 creates unique pieces of wall art using a sample of your DNA. The company sends you a saliva collection kit and you, in turn, send the company your saliva. DNA 11 extracts the DNA from your saliva and takes an electronic DNA 'snapshot'. All that remains in creating your spittle craft is the photo massaging and tweaking, done by 'digitally enhancing your DNA fingerprint.'. They currently offer an intro special of $390 to the first 1000 customers.
via Design Sponge
More Gorgeous In Wall Fireplaces by ThermArt
More and more, we're seeing modern, beautiful and sleek in-wall fireplaces that look less like fireplaces than art, and Canada's ThermArt is no exception - in fact they make some of the nicest specimens, if you ask us. The company lists five models on their website: the Teardrop (pictured), Quote, Flow, Bouquet and Clarity. Be sure to check out their installation gallery, available for your surfing pleasure.
If you reside in Europe, Safretti produces similarly stunning units.
Wired Article on the Coolest Rooms on Earth
Wired has a nice article up on the coolest, most gadget-filled, automated rooms on the planet, including a home that Michael Douglas had a hand in designing in the 1980s. Apparently people with money dig LCDs rising from bed foot boards quite a bit - and it's hard to blame them, really. Softwall Flexible Room Partition
This dynamic room divider can be easily shaped to adjust to one's unique living space. The softwall can be opened by one person and can be folded and stored when not needed. Velcro ends allow for additional softwall modules to be attached. From the site:
The paper softwall is a beautiful, lightweight, freestanding wall that can be arranged into almost any shape, or easily compressed into a compact sheaf and stored away. softwall dampens sound and can both absorb and transmit light. The paper softwall is made from 400 layers of honeycombed translucent white, fire-retardant paper, bounded by natural wool felt ends. The thick felt ends fold to create handles when the wall is open, and form a casing when the wall is compressed. paper softwall is modular, as the felt ends have velcro fasteners which can link walls together. The paper softwall is delicate, yet its honeycomb design makes it surprisingly resilient to normal handling.
Make a Festive Lighted Glass Block
If you're looking for a personal decoration for the holiday season, check out our Glass Block w/ Mini Lights howto. If you're comfortable drilling into glass and haven't had too much egg nog, then you shouldn't have any trouble with this simple project. This is a beautiful craft that emits a warm, soft glow that is really inviting, creating the perfect festive ambiance.
Ingenious Candles with Built In Matchbook
Now this is clever! Never have to search for a lighter or misplaced matchbook again with these matches-included candles. From the site:Hygge-lys Paraffin candle with a built-in matchbox. Walton was inspired to create these candles shortly after coming to Denmark. In Scandinavia, cosiness - locally known as hygge - is often associated with the use of candles. Walton quickly perceived the need for a special candle that kept the matches within easy reach. So he cast a little matchbox in the bottom of each candle, and produced a little booklet to explain the genesis of the product.
via smartstuff.se
A Few Unique Ceiling Tile Options
According to their website, 3D "POP" panels (above) are a unique
"three dimensional, form pressed plywood element for modern interior decoration with wood."The unique 3D style of the panels would look super cool in a recroom or bar. The brochure (PDF) indicates that the panels definitely aren't the most inexpensive ceiling option in the world, however...
Ceiling Scenes "utilizes state-of-the art technology to print images or patterns directly onto acoustic ceiling tiles, creating truly custom ceilings. Whether you desire bright, colourful scenery or a subtle and serene visual treatment, our capabilities offer limitless potential to create genuinely unique environments." These images seem suitable mostly for a child's bedroom or play area, but an adventurous decorator might be able to work them into other spaces as well.
These tin ceiling tiles offer a very elegant, sophisticated look that can also be mounted as a backsplash.
via metafilter
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Cute and Depressing Melting Snowman Canisters by Marcel Dzama
Turn Your Old Laptop into a Digital Picture Frame
This site collects and posts howtos on turning your old, probably dormant laptop into a digital picture frame. One of the digital frames in the list was even made to respond to voice commands. If you've got an old laptop collecting dust, this may be the project for you.
Kodak Now Offering Life Poster Service
Earlier this year, Mike Matas posted a howto on making a life poster. It was a great idea that caught on in a hurry. What was somewhat surprising was that the big online photo shops didn't latch on to the trend and offer an easy web app to capitalize on the poster's popularity. Well, Kodak now offers a product for making life posters (Kodak calls them collages) with their online photo printing service. The app allows you to adjust the whitespace between pictures as well as having a random tilt widget. For people who don't have the software or patience to do it themselves, this is a decent alternative.
Beautiful Oil Lamp Shadow Projector
There's just something appealing in the warmth of a candle's flicker, perhaps more so for those of us unfortunate enough to be experiencing the first hit of old man winter. People of all climates, however, can appreciate the beauty of these stainless steel oil lamp shadow projectors, by Adam Frank. The projected shadow size is "adjustable", obviously dependent on the base's distance from the wall. The site claims this to be the first in a series. The fuel cells lasts 17 hours.
Scarface Poster Created Using Entire 300 Page Script
Any Scarface fan on your list would be a happy camper after receiving this incredibly creative piece on Christmas morning. Decorate your basement or home theatre with a poster made using the entire 300 page hand-written script from the 1983 Pacino classic.
Beautiful Wall Mountable Flueless Fireplace
At only 4" thick, this gorgeous and unique in-wall gas fireplace is the perfect solution for those looking to add the warmth of a fireplace without losing valuable living space. The units are flueless and, according to the manufacturer, 100% efficient. This is due to the Firewall Flueless' lack of a heat-liberating chimney like those found in conventional gas fireplaces. There is also an added environmental benefit in that the warm air the unit exhausts is cleaner than the air it takes in!
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