Bright Idea: New Use For An Old Bulb
We've been slowly phasing out our regular lightbulbs and replacing them with compact fluorescents. This has rendered the regular bulb a little redundant. But we just found a great alternative use fo...
We've been slowly phasing out our regular lightbulbs and replacing them with compact fluorescents. This has rendered the regular bulb a little redundant. But we just found a great alternative use fo...
If there's one thing we hate more than clutter it would have to be junk mail. No matter how many "stop junk mail" lists we sign up for, the unwanted mail still lands in our mailbox weekly. But it's ...
Rebound recycle reading material really nicely – sorry, couldn’t resist the alliteration. The makers of Rebound Books are newly married husband and wife team Ben Mason and Natalie Crupi who decide...
We really like the asymmetry of these book shelves by Melbourne based furniture maker/designer Mark Tuckey. Made from recycled packing crate wood, the different shaped boxes create a frame-like effect...
Ah the milk crate, the original building block for DIY furniture. Milk crates are often abused in a design sense by students looking for cheap – read free – storage solutions. But we’ve always k...
We have a drawer at home with old cell phones, a camera battery or two and a broken ipod. We could use this drawer for something else, but often get hung up on exactly where to take these things. A ...
We've posted about reusing 2-liter soda bottles to capture insects before, and this video includes it amongst their top 8 tips for reusing the common soda bottle for other uses before you chuck it i...
Our good friends over at Craft recently blogged about Etsy seller recycledideas' amazing handmade embossed cards for their unique seed-embedded feature. The "Scraped From the Barrel" collection are ha...
The other day, we blogged Readymade Magazine going digital. We're in awe of their MacGyver section where they challenge their readers to design products from common household items......
Talk about eco-friendly! Artist Stuart Haygarth collects debris that has washed ashore and makes spectacular sculptures out of it. Take for example this luminous, ephemeral almost jelly fish-like ...