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How to Make a TV Lift cabinet. Do you hate walking into your living room or family room and seeing a huge black TV flat screen dominating your view?

How to Make a TV Lift cabinet

Do you wish that you could just make it disappear when you're not watching? If so, read on. PVC Floating Accent Light. Humble PVC drain pipe is cheap, widely available, easy to work with, and almost endlessly useful for making everything from patio furniture to elegant sculptures.

PVC Floating Accent Light

This lamp adds a romantic glow to any room. Designed to provide good airflow around the bulb, it seems to float magically on a soft ring of light around its base. The Floating Accent Lamp is part of a series of four family-friendly projects that use 3"- or 4"-ID (inside diameter) PVC pipe. Tube Light. Natural Wood Tables. Selecting Pieces of Wood: For this project I used a piece of cut Cedar for the table top and base and a piece of Juniper for the table leg; but you don't have to use these types of wood!

Natural Wood Tables

Almost ANY kind of wood can be used. The table will be more interesting and beautiful if it has some nice bends and color, so use your imagination when you select pieces to use. Look for fallen trees from storms, or from an old logging area, or find driftwood from a lake side. The pieces don't have to be perfect. Eero Ball Dog Bed/Chair. Furniture is a tricky thing.

Eero Ball Dog Bed/Chair

There are so many phenomenally designed couches and chairs to adorn your living space, but frankly, how many people have the kind of money to buy the most elegant and modern pieces of architecture? I mean, the Eero Ball Chair is the perfect example: I have always wanted one of these chairs. It is described as a room within a room. The spherical shape creates a sort of secluded and private abode. A comforting, modern, chair. So, I came up with a solution. Paper Lamp.

Geometric Cut Paper Table Lamp. DIY Vinyl Wall Art. I live in an apartment and dig doing large-scale art.

DIY Vinyl Wall Art

Apartments, however, are usually a pain to paint and then paint to cover-up your awesome paint, and an especially big pain when you move around as often as I do. I do like having bright, interesting spaces, so I was brainstorming on creating a large art piece that I could maybe mount on the wall, or other types of removable decor, and the universe smiled on my with inspiration from one of my favorite blogs: Nest did a neat post on using contact paper to make wall decals.

With contact paper as my medium, a Tim Burton-esque / Tokyo Plastic vision of swirls, and a hot afternoon (or AC busted that weekend with temps in the 90s!) , I was ready to start doin' some art!. This is my very first instructable, and I hope you enjoy it. (Edit 1: Added pricing to supplies list. ) (Edit 2: Added bamboo close up images and peeling images.)

Paracord Laced Pallet, Hanging Chair. Stuff you will need- Tools: Drill Saw Lighter Sawzall (optional) Materials: Paracord Pallet (I was able to get by with just one but it all depends on how much usable wood you can get off of each pallet)

Paracord Laced Pallet, Hanging Chair

How to Make a Three-Dimensional Wall Hanging. Ready to craft?

How to Make a Three-Dimensional Wall Hanging

This project is so easy, anyone can do it. Before you start making excuses, let me tell you, I’d never painted before. Never used acrylics or done art on canvas. I can hardly even draw a straight line. Now that your excuses are gone, pick your colors and your theme and let’s get started! Need some ideas? Use different kinds of sticks. Maybe leave off the bird and use butterflies. This project should take two days. How to Make Moss Graffiti: 6 steps (with pictures) Edit Article Four Parts:Finding the mossPreparing the mossMaking moss milkApplying the moss graffiti As people become more eco-friendly and environmentally aware, the idea of making living, breathing graffiti has become an exciting outlet for graffiti artists.

How to Make Moss Graffiti: 6 steps (with pictures)

Also called eco-graffiti or green graffiti, moss graffiti replaces spray paint, paint-markers or other such toxic chemicals and paints with a paintbrush and a moss "paint" that can grow on its own. It can also be considered another form of guerrilla gardening. Learn more about this simple technique after the jump. Ad Steps Part 1 of 4: Finding the moss. Space Saving Stairway Shelving and TV Mounting System - Blog - Projects, Ideas, Inspiration, Kee Klamp, Fittings. Every once in a while we get pictures from our customers that really impress us!

Space Saving Stairway Shelving and TV Mounting System - Blog - Projects, Ideas, Inspiration, Kee Klamp, Fittings

This is one of those times. Jose, used Kee Klamp pipe fittings to build an amazing custom shelving and mounting setup for his home entertainment system. This system fulfills so many functions: It supports the TV, speakers and lighting. It has a cantilevered section that allows the electronics to hang out over the stairway reclaiming precious floor space. The system itself provides a barrier, protecting people from falls. Here is what Jose had to say about the project: Dracaena marginata bicolour - Dragon Tree House Plant.