Back to school season seems to fuel the diy and creative spirit around your spaces. You can't help but be thrifty and creative with new spaces that seem smaller and more akward (the closest outlet is HOW far away?!). After the jump we've rounded up 10 recent DIY Ideas to help cut some costs with great results!
Featured Left To Right, Top To Bottom:
• DIY Project: Home Office Gets Graphic Punch from Wallpaper
• DIY: How To Make An Ergonomic Laptop Stand From A Coat Hanger
• DIY Project: Create A Standing Desk From An Old IKEA Coffee Table
• IKEA Six Arms Ceiling Lamp
• DIY Installation: Flat Panel TV With Hidden Wiring
• DIY Project: Make Your Own Floating Computer Desk Using Countertops
• Wheelersean's DIY Muro Media Storage
• A Cool DIY Way to store Your Keyboard Off Your Desk
• DIY Mineral Oil Mood Lamps
• Simple DIY Lamp Lets Tech Take the Stage











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Do you guys even have an editor?
How do you save money and space hanging wallpaper, you do neither!
ergo laptop stand? You now have two keyboards instead of one, that costs money and space.
...and eight other cool posts about cool things that have nothing to do with this article or it's headline!
Woah! Down girl...or boy...or whatever you gender you are. This is a great blog. Don't like it? Don't read it.
If they are not open to criticism they shouldn't write it. If they have any journalistic merit they can take it, and hopefully build from it.
looks fun and relatively simple!
Funstraw's right tho... it's like them saying, "Free McDonalds Meals" and then they turn it into a recipe post... hey, they actually would do that... Oh well; I guess they win anyway... but yeah, my guess is if they edited stuff for content you'd have one or two posts a day. lol (Besides most people really just look at the pictures)
funstraw - I can understand that the most frugal take on a home office would be to simply not outfit it. It would be to not even have one at all and head to your local library to use their computer. But for those of us that have to have a home office, necessitate dualing keyboards, monitors and spend more time in it than any other room in the home, we'd like it to look great and function well.
Believe it or not, many people would rather hire someone else to hang their wallpaper (instead of hanging it yourself, ergo, saving money).
All of the posts above feature things that if you bought them at retail would either be higher in price. It might feature a service or a product, but either way, doing it yourself, with some guided know-how will 9/10 save you money!
*Sarahrae
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Let's we accept the shaky reason that the wallpaper project saves money by comparison to hiring someone to do it. It still doesn't explain how the wallpaper project saves space. You claim these DIY projects save money and space. If anything, it technically decreases space (albeit by a very small amount).
Some of the other projects seem questionable on the saving space part too.
Yeah, I'm a little confused too, especially since this article was posted in the "technology" blog. I'm not sure how wallpapering relates to technology, nor how having to buy a second keyboard helps one save money. Then again, I did think the pictures were neat, which seems to be what AT aims for, rather than actual content.
Thanks SarahRae for these fun ideas! If you think about the cost of one roll of wallpaper vs. the cost of buying artwork & having it framed, it does def save money! How much would a wall-sized piece of artwork cost to make the same impact this Feature Wall does?
As far as saving space- you can hang shelves over the wallpaper, increasing your storage space without losing the aesthetic appeal!
For those that think the wallpaper MUST do double-duty, try something like this and use it as a bulletin board!: FRAMES
I have to agree with funstraw: These DIYs save neither time nor money.
i guess some of them do save space, and some might save money, but mostly i look at them and think... "okaayyy... not really as helpful as i had hoped when i first read the headline." i do like the look of the Wallpaper project, and the floating computer desk project does give me some ideas, though.
This article makes me believe that perhaps they're a bit shorthanded on writers! So I'll throw my hat into the ring. Contact me at infinitenever (at) gmail.com and we can discuss the best way I can provide you with timely, accurate and relevant articles.
I agree with the other sentiments above. Useful these items may be, but the title is still misleading. I came in expecting something totally different.