I came across this post over at Tree Hugger a couple of days ago, and have been thinking about it since. From the three person design group 101 comes this great looking lamp made from old wire cloths hangers and a compact florescent bulb. Of course it’s not really presented as a DIY [...]

It’s not complete yet, but this B & W house in Minneapolis by Julie Snow Architects is quite stunning. Built for Walker Art Center Design Curator Andrew Blauvelt, it has been described as a “little concrete box” with top to bottom glass at the back of the house, protected by a concrete wall and garage. The wood cladding is ipe wood, complemented by rusted steel accessories in the landscaping. All in all, this house is very zen, and we look forward to more images when it is finished.

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I mentioned a while ago that Boon had come out with several new products. We have been testing out the Squirt for the past month or so, and we love it. The Squirt, or Boon spoon as we call it, is a baby food dispensing spoon. The orange part screws off, [...]

furni’s been busy. It’s fitting that the company known for clocks would have at least one project in Switzerland. Nothing to do with clocks mind you, furni principal Mike Giles has a friend there, Jay, who recently bought a small mountainside barn (built in 1799!) and converted into a home. As Mike put it, Jay literally swept out the hay and started a 9-month conversion. Its now a 3-story, 1350 sq. ft house. furni supplied the wood finishing in the kitchen and some of the wood furniture. Interesting note, the kitchen floor tile is made of the original slate roof. More after the jump.

When we built our addition, we knew that the secret to making a small house feel big is lots of storage. Thats why we planned over 40 linear feet of floor to ceiling storage. Unfortunately when we decided to finish our kitchen with this project we used up all our budget and were [...]

It’s 2008 and new years resolutions abound. Ours is to finally get some decent storage built into our 1,300 square foot house, and we’re well on our way. We spent the weekend assembling this Ikea GORM shelving and filling it up with tools and other random stuff that had been hanging out in our [...]

When we were first looking into making an ofuro, one of the things we considered was pouring one out of concrete. The good thing about concrete is that the material is cheap, and with a little hard work it lends itself well to the DIY approach. We quickly bagged the idea because there [...]

With all the post holiday sales starting up it’s a great time to get online and do some shopping. CB2 currently has things up to 50% off. I noticed all of their Christmas ornaments are about half off, so if there is something you wish you would have gotten for your tree, here [...]

I received a lot of great gifts this year, but perhaps the one that captures the Christmas spirit the best was this shirt from Rosaloves.com. If you haven’t heard of Rosa Loves before, you should definitely check it out. Not only do they have some great designs printed on American Apparel t-shirts, but [...]

Since I won’t be posting on Monday or Tuesday of next week I though I would post a link for anyone looking to kill some time during the Holidays. Grace over at Designsponge has been doing a great job compiling all sorts of different guides that are very complete. Product guides include pictures [...]