Converse All Stars and other sneakers make great instant rubber stamps for floors and walls, not to mention wrapping paper.
Read MoreMaterial for Making: Healthy Plywood 101
Plywood is an endlessly useful, accessible, great-looking material for making, that has been inspired legions of artists, architects and designers. The glues used to make modern plywood often contains formaldehyde, so we’re passing on this great primer on healthy plywoods.
Read MoreThe Subversive Power of Post-Its
Some unusual Post-It notes written by kid’s express heartening views and strategies about living.
Read MoreWhen Do-It-Yourself Doesn’t Turn Out as Planned
How many times how we felt like Buster Keaton when we’ve made something that didn’t turn out quite as we envisioned. Oh well. It IS a house, albeit a cockeyed one, and the process no doubt was full of useful lessons.
Read MoreSpring Sightings of Clever Improvised Looks
With the spring collections typically flaunting the glories of what is polished and planned, we think Tommy Ton’s street-style photography beautifully captures the other side of fashion week – that which is joyously improvised…
Read MoreBirch Branch Canopy Bed
On the heels of our post about using vintage columns as bed posts, we found images of Fashion Designer Samantha Pleet’s Williamsburg Apartment. In it, a bed made of lashed together birch logs.
Read MoreRepurposing Artist’s Ideas, for Home and Living
I confess to being a barbarian. I routinely check out artists work for ideas I can apply as home design elements. I wonder why my generous artist friends don’t come banging down my door angry at my canabalization of pure art for utilitarian means. They don’t. And I keep finding inspiration from artist’s work, like…
Read MoreThe Bubbleologist: A Short Film about Bubbles and Life
This lovely short film about Bubbleologist Samsam Bubbleman who uses only two ingredients —soap and water — to make magic, reveals the philosophy, science and suprising metaphysics of bubbles, and how their ethereal beauty transforms people.
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