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Vertical Home Gardens: Modular Stacking Green Wall System. Dazzled by dangling gardens, but wish you could have one of your own? This neat and simple system of stackable modules makes it easy to create indoor or outdoor garden ‘plots’, hung from walls or built up from floors, window ledges and deck railings. The rather minimalist black and white (though also green) polypropylene plastic ‘pots’ hide a system that both retains moisture but keeps plants lower down from becoming over-watered, by draining excess liquid directly down to a storage trough in the base. The material itself within these Minigardens is designed not to leach toxins into your soil or plants, but is a smooth synthetic that can be more easily cleaned. Kits come in various sizes with differing numbers of trays, all of which can be stacked, suspended and hung in various ways.

Not bad for under $100 (at gardening stores and plant websites in the UK). “Minigarden is perfect for building a small living wall or simply combine together to create a large vertical garden. Diy and Crafts. Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius Part 5. Mismatched Chair Bench. 100 Creative Furniture / Inspiration / Splashnology - Web Design and Web Technology Community.

Cool design ideas #2 | Email Junk. Some really cool design ideas: folding chairs, folding bath, cool light, pizza scissors,… Related articles: Cool design ideas, Cool inventions (15 pictures) Chairs Made From Old Computers Offer Interactive Seating. Photos via BRC Designs We've seen a lot of things made from computer parts but this might be the most elaborate. A series of furniture, including chairs and a table, have been fashioned from junked hardware... and they couldn't be more interesting.

They're even interactive! Last week, Lloyd covered the Binary 01 chair and noted, "I do worry about the sharp edges, the toxic chemicals found in old circuit boards and components that might leach out, and how one might keep this clean, but other than those minor caveats, it looks like a wonderful repurposing of old electronics. " I definitely agree -- this looks cool, but I'm not so sure about sitting directly on these old computer parts that have been busted up and refashioned together. BRC Designs writes: The amount of effort put into construction is pretty impressive -- here is the underside: There's another version of a chair, more of a dining chair style.

In other words, these are thrones for geeks. And there is also a table: Cozy book nook. All-in-One Modular Fold Out Living Room Furniture Set. This incredible all-in-one furniture set from Matroshka is still looking for funding – so if you want to have one you might need to become an investor. Named after Russian nesting dolls, this remarkable furniture collection packs down to just 13 square feet but includes: bookshelves, a double bed, corner couch, dinner table, four stools, working space, drawers, a wardrobe and additional storage.

Whether or not these are ever mass-produced this great step-by-step furniture photo shoot should at least inspire do-it-yourselfers to think about how you can create your own highly portable and yet remarkably simple modular furniture sets to suit your own spatial needs: Ultimate Pirate Ship Bedroom (12 pics) Pics | 4 Mar, 2011 | Views: 12388 | Designer Steve Kuhl creates bedrooms of every kid's dream. Space ship or race car, castle or pirate ship, he can built any kind of a bedroom. Here are photos of his latest work - pirate ship bedroom. Do you like it? It is just one of the thousands of posts that we have on the Acidcow.com. Please visit our main page to see other great pictures and videos!