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DIY light fixture. Thanks for the sweet comments on my Preteen boys room.

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MOVIE CAMERA - Vinyl Wall Art Decal Sticker film reels. Making wooden gears out of plywood. Traducido al español por Sergio Here's some pictures of making wooden gears out of plywood using paper template from my Gear Template Generator.

Making wooden gears out of plywood

I made two gears, both with a tooth size of 250, and tooth angle of 25 degrees. The smaller one with 7 teeth, the larger one with 11. With that tooth size, 11 teeth was as large as I could go before I would have had to paste multiple pieces of paper together. DIY Project: Restoration Hardware Inspired Shelves. Boy, did you guys ever love our Restoration Hardware inspired shelves!!!

DIY Project: Restoration Hardware Inspired Shelves

Now we’re going to show you how we made them. UPDATE: See the original reveal here and how we updated them with industrial style lighting from Ikea here and where we’re using them in our NEW HOUSE here. And if you’d like to know how to make wood look old (like we do on the shelves) in just 3 steps click here.

Thank you so much for all your sweet compliments, by the way! Small Space, Big Design: Nooks & Niches - Inn Style. Small Space, Big Design: Nooks & Niches - Pit Stop. Cutting Table Plans. (only one more week to enter my Booty Buns giveaway here) You've been begging . . . . . I've been nagging . . . . . And guess what? My man delivered! Teen Room Inspiration from Zalf. The Italians from Zalf are renowned for their modern furniture, but today we laid our eyes on their latest teen room designs.

Teen Room Inspiration from Zalf

With bold lines and vibrant colours, the rooms suit as great inspiration for anyone trying to redecorate the kids room or are looking for furniture that suits a teenager . Theatre Room Knock-off. The morning I found out I had been selected to compete in Crafting with the Stars, I frantically started flipping through the pages of the Ballard Designs catalog I had in my magazine basket, looking for an idea for my “knock-off.”

Theatre Room Knock-off

When I came upon this page…I knew I had my project. One of my sisters has a super fun family room that is painted black with a filmstrip wallpaper border and several of those cardboard movie-character cut-outs standing around. Simple Leather iPod Touch/iPhone Case. Can you keep a secret?

Simple Leather iPod Touch/iPhone Case

Santa’s been shopping at the Apple store. So I thought I’d help out with a few handmade stocking stuffers- iPod Touch cases. (My daughters are forbidden to look at my blog until after Christmas, so Shhh!) Modular Storage Space: Interlocking Urban Shelving Units. Sometimes, when it comes to design, less is more.

Modular Storage Space: Interlocking Urban Shelving Units

Simple furniture elements can go a long way toward composing creative and useful spaces and, in this case, add storage as well. These creative shelving units have no moving parts, require no fasteners and come in various colors. In short: they are great room dividers and space creators that require no assembly yet have a variety of uses.

Taken together, these L-shaped pieces can be combined to create entertainment centers, side tables and stacks or rows of shelves along a wall or within a room. Along with the functional variety this brings comes a visual dynamism as illustrated by the images here – these Urban Shelving Unit objects become more than mere living room storage shelves when set in new configurations and endless possible color combinations. Ratchet Furniture by Harry Hasson. New Designers 09: Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication graduate Harry Hasson exhibited furniture held together using ratchet straps in tension at graduate show New Designers in London earlier this month.

Ratchet Furniture by Harry Hasson

Hasson designed the range to be assembled and dismantled quickly for people who move house frequently. All of the furniture is made of coated plywood and is assembled without nails, glue, screws, or other fixings.  Home Theater Seating, Accessories, Signs, Popcorn... Reel to Real Theater Decor - Reel Flanges - Littleton, CO. Build your own cinema projector. A few years ago, I used to spend a lot of time on eBay trying to spot attractive bargains for LCD screens and video projectors.

Build your own cinema projector

Auctioning sites are an excellent place to find out about price levels and market demand but they also provide impostors and swindlers with a stage. Forsberg Form - Betongbord, golvur och mycket mer. Video Podcast: How to turn an old window into illuminated wall art. » Curbly. I have a thing about windows.

Video Podcast: How to turn an old window into illuminated wall art. » Curbly

Especially barn sash windows, one of which just happened to be lying around. It was too good not to turn into something, so kicked around some ideas and came up with a wall art/light fixture idea and went to work. What we used: an old barn sash windowscrap 1" x 3" pinea piece of handy boardfrosted glass sprayContact paperscissor and paper punchLED light striptable saw, screws, drill, nails hammer, etc. What we did: To see the entire project, watch the video below or click here. First, using the 1" x 3" we made a simple box frame, which we attached to the inside of the window. Then I painted the entire front and sides of the window with a couple of coats of latex enamel. Next, I made flower stickers out of the Contact paper, using a scissors to cut stems and a paper punch to make flowers.