In the mood for a weekend project? The acrylic bubbles and some gold leaf add a great touch to this simple IKEA lamp shade. I would love a larger version over my kitchen table, but really this lamp would look great anywhere. And to know you did it yourself in a quick and easy project would make it look even better!

For the tutorial on how to make this yourself, check out Pudel-design. Where will you put it??

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During the Stockholm Furniture Fair, Sofie Samuelson and Hanna Billqvist showed their collaborative project, Everyday Constructions. They’ve taken everyday, functional objects and turned them into decorative elements so that they are no longer overlooked. Hanna explains, The idea for my furniture collection was born during a period when I passed a facade covered in scaffolding, day after day

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Everyday Constructions by Sofie Samuelson and Hanna Billqvist

The icon that we have all come to know and love which graces our Google maps to let us know where we are, or where we need to go, has become ubiquitous. Designer Shuchun Hsiao realized this and created the Google Birdhouse Project , an ongoing project to give birds desinations of their own, just like Google maps does for humans. The designer explains, “Birds, have the most real experience of google map. Birds can fly through the city, through streets

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Google Maps Inspired Birdhouse Tells Birds Where Home Is

UTREM LUX is the name of a sustainable design project by Degross Design & Innovation that takes old glass bottles and reuses them to make lamps. The bottles, which had been discarded behind their studio have been individually handcrafted into something entirely new.

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Reusing Glass Bottles to Make Lamps: UTREM LUX by Degross Design

Italian design studio Nucleo has been around for 15 years now, and to celebrate, they are offering special DIY project instructions for one of their designs. They’re making free instructions available on how to build a version of their Histogram table out of LEGO bricks. This sounds like an adult LEGO lover’s dream (i.e., me)! The original table was designed for Nilufar Unlimited but this version is available to anyone who submits their email address. In turn, you will receive the instructions via email

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DIY LEGO Histogram Table from Nucleo

Finnish wooden furniture and furnishings company Nikari began a year long project entitled 2012 Designs for Nature in which they asked 12 designers or studios to design a wood product that best represents Nikari’s philosophy on wood design. The decades old company designs top notch quality pieces from sustainable wood practices and each of the participants had to study their practices to create their own design.

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April Tables by Alfredo Häberli for Nikari

Materials: Hemnes bookcase Description: Modification of the Hemnes bookcase in to display cabinet. All this project comes from the need of a display cabinet for my figure collection. There were a few concepts that I had pretty clear at the time of chosing a display cabinet

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Hemnes display cabinet

These Stitch and Wooly chairs by Susanne Westphal are her final graduate project from the University of Art and Design Burg Gibiechenstein. She asked the question “Why do we have less time then ever before, although we invented time saving things?” The unfinished chairs are a reminder that we need to take time with things so each chair gets completed by the user. Using wool, one can stitch and upholster the chairs, and the more time that is spent on them, the more comfortable and attractive they are. By taking your time constructing the chairs, they teach you to slow down, relax, and unwind. Photos by Sascha Linke.

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Stitch and Wooly by Susanne Westphal

Studio Project Concept One is a new line of modern children’s furniture. Their first pieces include a project table and stools. Each piece is made of Baltic Birch Multi-ply with hand laid Walnut veneer faces and a Formica® laminated table. The table has a white top and the stool seats are available in five fun colors

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Studio Project Concept One

While relaxing in the Mussel Chair.

Designed by Hanne Kortegaard as a graduation project for the Danish Design School, the Mussel Chair is a diverse modern chair. Kortegaard explains on the Danish Design School website that she wanted the Mussel Chair to cater to both children and adults.

Thus, the Mussel Chair can be used as a chaise lounge, as a chair with armrests or a side table. The armrest can also be reversed and used as a stool or a headrest.

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