Archive for April 17th, 2012

what have you been making today?

Playing with water sheets in space

This gif via the great DVDP, which was inspired by this (Playing with Water Sheets in Space), made us wonder “What have you been making today?”

Related posts: peep show gif: funny, risqué, slightly x-rated
mind shift: the great bell chant
we mashup attenborough’s ‘what a wonderful world’
reminder: shooting stars all around us (gif)

copper pipe table to d-i-y or buy

photo: david john

Today Remodelista featured Garde, a new shop in Los Angeles that sells “stylishly understated” housewares. We are smitten with the poplar-top table’s Garde’s owner Scotti Sitz designed to display her wares, and which are available by custom order.

The bases appear to be an ingenious use of simple copper plumbing pipe. We’ve thought of all the times we’ve found ourselves in the plumbing department of our local hardware store, mulling the possibilities for copper pipe, t-joints and other fittings. Copper, left uncoated, is beautiful shiny or dull.

Sitz’s table got our imagination going… read more…

d-i-y vintage-box furniture (and obsession)

photo: nicolas mathéus


We recently came across a photo essay of a home decorated with vintage fruit boxes. We’re talking some kind of obsession here. They’re all through the house as furniture and storage solutions, like the bed and shelves above, and this kitchen island on wheels… read more…