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Fur Your Laptop!
Make your laptop nice and fuzzy like a stuffed animal in a few minutes. Fake fur is the most wonderful thing ever on a computer. I tried this once with adhesive-backed black velvet but I like the fur...
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Test Tube Flower Vase
This is a variation on a flower vase that I've wanted to do for some time that uses test tubes to arrange individual flowers. The sometimes daunting, monolith quality of the conventional flower...
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The convertable War Board
For those of you not in the military, when a base commander tells you to do something, you DO IT!! While I was stationed at Camp Bucca, the FOB commander, a great guy, asked me to make him a “War...
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Spongebob Square Bed
This is the Spongebob Square Bed i made for my kid. its a pretty basic loft style bed. because the ceiling is low i could not make bunk beds, so i made the underneath to store toys. the kids have to...
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Fluffy Pillow Chairs
Make your own fluffy bean bag-style pillow chairs out of canvas, stuffed with pieces of recycled foam. Acquire lots of foam Foam makes an excellent, comfortable stuffing, although it is sickeningly...
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Renovated Outdoor Table
Four years ago we bought a cheap garden table. The wooden table top did not stand the weather. It was not much fun lunching on it. The metal frame and legs however were all that remained in an...
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Paracord Chair: Simple, Comfortable, Adjustable & Collapsable
This project is really simple, as it involves two intersecting wooden rectangles that have a seat and back made from woven paracord. I'm going to assume that anyone attempting this project has basic...
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Six Pack Lamp
When I was a kid, I remember having an environmental assembly at school which included a speech about cutting up six pack rings before throwing them away, so wildlife wouldn't get their necks stuck and...
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Hide your messy bookshelf with ikea panels
The purpose of this project is to build some cheap, light and removable panels to hide a messy bookshelf or use as a door. This instructable can also be used to build a paint from a good designed...
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How to Save a Broken Arne Jacobsen Chair From the Trash Heap
The college where I work has several of these wonderful Model 3107 plywood chairs designed by Arne Jacobsen. Our local symphony orchestra uses them when they perform in our campus theatre. When the...
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Vibrant green rug made from felt scraps
The folks over at Martha Stewart's craft department make a lot of things out of felt and thus have a lot of felt scraps left over. Kristin St. Clair had some free time and started a small project with...
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Reupholster a Very Old Footstool
You have to treat a little antique footstool just like an old person, gentleness and kindness. It turns out, after a little local research, this stool belonged to a prominent Indianapolis physician in...
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Coffee-Stained Coffee Table
This table seeks to take the stress out of owning a coffee table. You might constantly worry about stains appearing on your table from water cups or the notorious coffee cup. But with dozens of coffee...
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Outdoor Speaker
Hello fellow tinkerers, this tutorial will show you how to build a large tiki statue with an outdoor speaker inside of it. I decided to build a pair of rock speakers out of the same materials, but the...
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Table(less) Cloth
Quite some time ago, fungus amungus set forth a challenge to duplicate the design of a "Tablecloth without a Table". Well, after waiting all this time, I finally said "I guess I'll do it, I have to do...
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DIY Platform Bed and Mattress Substitute - Out-Of-The-Box, Portable,...
Ever needed to lug a mattress, a box spring or a heavy, clunky wooden or metal bed up or down a few flights of stairs or load it into a car or van? Or worried about having to throw away an otherwise...
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Branch Shaped Display Shelf
I have had a wood shop for about a year, and this is my first instructable of my first paid project. I hope you enjoy it! This is a display shelf I saw in West Elm that went for $100. My version costs...
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Plywood Children's Chair.
Typical waste of demolition or renovation projects is Plywood. Often it just ends up in a waste container. This I'ble will show you how to upcycle this Plywood into a comfortable childrens chair....
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Fabric Upholstered Bed Headboard
Estee and Judd made this amazing headboard using Britex Fabric home decorating fabric. We love how they utilized our beautifully detailed sea creatures linen. She said: “I am happy to report that the...
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20KRKR
Every year, the Rural Studio, a program of Auburn University's architecture school, located in Hale County, Alabama, pursues a research project called the 20K House. We build a house on a budget of...
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Kid's Rocking Moroccan Makeover
My usual Goodwill perusal turned up a $6.99 kid's rocking chair that had seen better days. Having previously designed and created kid's rockers for PoshTots.com, I am very familiar with downsizing...
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How to reupholster a recliner seat
I found a recliner beside a Dumpster. The bones were good, but it needed a new seat because the vinyl had holes with stuffing coming through. I looked all over online for instructions, but had to...
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Ten Green Coffee Table - from reclaimed timber and glass bottles
Ten Green is a shelving and table system, constructed simply from local recyclates. This range started with shelving/table modules and continued into small shelving units, big shelving units and now...
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Canvas "Pocket Book" Shelf
Around my house summer means kicking back with a good book. My 3 year old granddaughter loves books, but her bookshelf was a mess...books stacked and falling over and she could never find the one she...
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Box made out of slats
In this instructable i'll show you how to build a box out of slats, found in Paris garbages (linked to my other instructable, as the box purpose is to carry the bonsai around). Here is a list of pretty...
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Cardboard Coffee Table
This is my take on cardboard furniture. I made a coffee table previously, but it did have problems. I hope I've fixed those problems in this version. It's a monopod - it has just one foot. This has a...
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Build A Desk
At one point or another a store bought desk just won't cut it. To get the ultimate work experience building your own desk is very satisfying. Most of the time building your own desk is much cheaper...
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Companion Sitting Cube
It's been a long time. How have you been? After weeks and months of free time, let this Instructable accompany you back into Real Life. Wipe the dust from your desk chair and find out that it does...
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LED Pinball coffee table
There I was, minding my own business, when all of a sudden (as all good stories start) I found an old pinball machine at the dump. I promptly took it home and has help putting it in the house where it...
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Circular Cardboard Bookshelf
This design is based on a apostrophe. After a few requests for a tutorial on this curvy cardboard bookshelf (inspired by Patricia Dessoulles), I decided to have a go at it. I covered it with...
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Road Sign Stools
Given a heavy, yet healthy, obsession with road signs, I created these stools for my new apartment. They use a simple metal-bending technique to turn down the sharp edges of the signs and...
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Wooden Wall Clock
My mother wanted a wall clock for the cellar. It is where she has all of her sewing stuff. She often spends whole afternoons there and needs a way to control the time she stays. Also I though a clock...
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One-legged bunk bed
Bunk beds are surprisingly expensive if you get a sturdy one, and the cheap ones feel pretty flimsy. This one is very easy to build from off-the-shelf lumber, and is rock-solid. Well, at least as solid...
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Door Table
Old doors make great tables -- they're the right size and shape, and usually made of good solid wood instead of that hollow-core nonsense you find in houses today. The only problem is finding a way to...
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How to Make a Papier Mache Side Table
Imagine a land where side tables were outlawed. There are few who will stand up and resist such a dark regime that oppresses innocent floor space... it is up to the few, to oppose this great wave of...
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The QUB3: An All-Purpose Child Booster
What would you do if you were a foot taller than you are? For some like my little brother (who is 6'4"), height is not an issue. For some like me, I like to delude myself into thinking I would be...
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Lighted Memorabilia Display
There is simply no better way for a kid to connect to a sport than by having him meet someone who treats them the right way and award them with an autograph. In my younger days, I went to the San...
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How to make a functional children's coloring table
We have a two years old daughter, and she loves to draw. We found it hard not just to clean up the pieces of paper after her, but also to keep her involved in drawing without getting frustrated every...
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How to make a seat for less than 8 Eur in less than 4 min.
Sitting all day sucks, because it causes back pain sometimes. Standing all day sucks as well, because it causes tired legs after a while. So while working at Open Design City today, I was wondering...
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Designer Vases from Styrofoam Cups
After seeing makendo's great instructable, we at InstructablesTV had to try this trick out for ourselves. This video documents our findings... By: calischsContinue Reading »
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Door Knob Bookshelf Legs
I love doing simple home decor projects. I just bought a cheap bookshelf from a consignment store near my home. I got the idea to prop the shelf up with door knobs when I was working on my...
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Super Table - covered with comic books
Hi Friends ! This table I made for a film set. It was a work for the college. Actually I study at a film college ;) It is very easy to make. You need just a few of comic books, scissors, and glue. For...
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Powder Coated, Laser Masked, Ceramic Tiles
I'm a metal guy at heart, and therefore I've completely fallen in love with this stuff called powder coat. For the uninitiated, powder coat is the paint that destroys all other paints. Essentially, it...
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Rebuilding a Fireplace Surround
This Instructable (Instructanovel) details the process I went through to demolish an existing fireplace surround made of flagstone and replace it with a much more attractive (at least to my eye) custom...
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O Bench
Materials.. You will need just 3 things to do : 1)corrugated cardboard paper 2)Adhesive 3)A band saw First step.. I thought to make a bank which is usefull for resting..I draw some sketches and chose...
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Single Step Stairs
This project uses only one sheet of plywood. It makes a four level step that is 32 3/4 inch tall. I use mine for my kids (2 and 5 yr old) to get on to the trampoline, you can use yours for whatever....
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Retro Style Wood Veneered Table Clock
Throughout most of history everything was made by hand. In more recent times the manufacture of goods has done away with things like the elegant curves of objects made in the 1930's and 40's....
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Light Reactive Curtain
For the last project of the semester in my Craft and Computing class, we had to make a family of items that fulfilled some need that people have. My team partner and I are all about self expression...
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Motion Sensing Beaded Curtain
This is a project we created as part of our Computing and Crafts final project. The assignment was to “produce a family of devices for a given cause”. We chose to create this beaded door curtain and a...
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