Urban Fantasies: 12 3D Architectural Images Warp Reality
What makes these uncanny is their near-believability. The structures not quite impossible, in most cases, these renderings stretch the limits of the improbable. The settings are almost exclusively mundane – boring gray skyscrapers, with a twist (or a bend, depending). The story of illustrator Víctor Enrich begins and ends with art, though brief flirtations and flings with urban design and architecture came along the way. In the end, and perhaps not a shock to those viewing his work, real-world construction limited the potential of his imagination. What started as sketches at age ten evolved into computer models as a teen, developing into ever-more-realistic photography edits as the artist aged with the available tools. In his own words: “The works tend to resurrect the urban form, probably the most overlooked field of the architectural world … the cities of today have not been designed.” “There is a background process of understanding the city at a geometric level.
DIY Dress Design Idea: Create Your Own Color Scheme
What if you could make your dress reflect your mood or tastes of the moment, redesigning the colors and patterns from scratch each time you wore it? Best of all, such a simple idea could be extended to all kinds of clothing with equally compelling effects. The idea is as simple as the execution: colored markers are placed in small stitched pockets dotting the dress design from top to bottom. These are allowed to bleed into the material, creating circular spots of color as they do. The wearer can stick to one color scheme between washes then start all over again and create a new design each time they do wash their clothes. As these highly varied examples show, there are limitations with the types of patterns one can create – but within that there is a good deal of room for recreating the design each time.
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How to Make Leaf Skeletons
I wanted to share with you a project from one of my readers who shares with us how to make leaf skeletons. I LOVE this! I have several leafs in various forms displayed in my home and knew I needed to make some of her leaf skeletons to add to my decor. I love how a pattern of leaves can enhance the beauty in your home. So I asked Heather if she would mind sharing her project with you. You can find more great projects from Heather at her blog The Other White House. I have spent hours and tried various ways of making these. You need washing soda, not baking soda! Gather your leaves. Washing soda is a strong base so you may want to wear gloves when handling the leaves. You will add 3/4 cup of washing soda and 4 cups of water to your pot of leaves. Keep going, you will need to add more water so your pan doesn’t dry out. When 1.75 hours are up fill a glass baking dish with cool water. I carefully removed them and rinsed with water and added clean water to the pan. 37.1Kstumbleupon
Lawn Cabins: Grass-Roofed Landscapes for Green Retreats
Stand-alone sheds and prefab work spaces rarely look integrated into a landscape; generally, they are an extra piece plopped on top of an open flat area, cleared or already unused on a property. This quaint little construction project takes green additions in a new direction – up. The Lawn House from Altro Studio is sized to fit strips of grassy sod that wrap up its walls and over its roof, creating a layer of heat-and-light-absorbing insulation, natural ventilation as well as a simple drainage solution for outdoor applications. Gridded metal helps hold the soil in place, in combination with grip-friendly angles along the relevant edges. Two translucent sides give it a sense of openness and let in indirect light, while two opaque dirt-and-grass-covered walls and the overhead angled ceiling provide a feeling of enclosure.
Incredible Crafts Room Uses Cheap Space-Saving Solutions
Design is one thing – deployment is another. All of the ingenious storage and shelving in the world cannot help if the person utilizing them does not do so with forethought and intentionality, as this incredible space-saver craft room illustrates. Etsy seller Megan of? Stored with a sense of immaculate organization are endless collections of beads, fabrics, yarns, ribbons and other material scraps, odds and ends … the list goes on, and all readily at hand for on-demand sewing and general crafting purposes, placed on dowels, suspended from strings in baskets, slotted into cabinet drawers, hung from the walls, laddered along -stepped-up, wall-mounted shelves and more. While style, color and other aesthetic choices are highly subjective, this is truly an inspirational space – the principles and approaches employed here would work for anything from a personal printing studio to a homemade woodworking shop.?
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Why didn’t I think of that? You’ll be uttering those words more than once at these ingenious little tips, tricks and ideas that solve everyday problems... some you never knew you had! Hull strawberries easily using a straw. Rubbing a walnut over scratches in your furniture will disguise dings and scrapes. Remove crayon masterpieces from your TV or computer screen with WD40. Stop cut apples browning in your child’s lunch box by securing with a rubber band.. Overhaul your linen cupboard – store bed linen sets inside one of their own pillowcases and there will be no more hunting through piles for a match.. Pump up the volume by placing your iPhone / iPod in a bowl – the concave shape amplifies the music.. Re-use a wet-wipes container to store plastic bags.. Add this item to your beach bag. Attach a Velcro strip to the wall to store soft toys.. Look up! Gotcha! Make an instant cupcake carrier by cutting crosses into a box lid.. Forever losing your bathroom essentials?
Modular Wire-Frame Shelf from Wall-Mounted Metal Rods
How much of a shelf do you really use? It is tempting to answer ‘the whole thing’ but really, most books and other objects would be fine with just a few strands of support rather than a whole solid surface. Giulio Parini has created a minimalist system of just a few iron rods and connectors with many modular possibilities, capable of scaling up and out in any angular shape you can imagine. The results of his experiments have spanned from floors to ceilings with webbed networks of lightweight and versatile wall-mounted shelving, as suited to an industrial garage as it would be to a contemporary interior. Anyone who has played hands-on with geometric toys knows that certain configurations are internally rigid (like triangles – the basis of trusses) in any strong material (concrete, wood or metal for instance). Fix a few points and the rest becomes a fun interplay of formal and free-form wall decor, hardware that itself also acts as furniture – hangers, hat racks, etc… just waiting to happen.
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