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MySaver Safeguards Your iPhone, iPad and iPod Cables from Damage

MySaver Safeguards Your iPhone, iPad and iPod Cables from Damage

If you own an Apple product, chances are you’ve had to deal with broken charge cords and fraying cables. The MySaver project, designed by Thomas Lehman, and funded through Kickstarter, demonstrates

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ReadyMade Magazine Closes its Doors for Good

ReadyMade Magazine Closes its Doors for Good

It’s a sad day for publishing as ReadyMade, one of our favorite shelter mags, has closed its doors for good. The trailblazing DIY magazine was shuttered today by parent company Meredith Corporation

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Awesome Bamboo iPhone Case Looks Like a Retro Camera

Awesome Bamboo iPhone Case Looks Like a Retro Camera

If you own an iPhone and want to protect it from everyday wear and tear while avoiding nasty plastic or rubber protectors, this awesome camera-shaped bamboo case might be just the thing you’re

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Make Your Own Cardboard World With the Amazing COOLS Kit

Make Your Own Cardboard World With the Amazing COOLS Kit

COOLS Kit is not a new piece of crazy-shaped furniture or recycled cardboard household object – it’s an amazing set of hand-tools with connectors meant for building just about anything you can

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Pomada’s Recycled Cardboard Furniture Gives Scrap Tubes a Second Life

Pomada’s Recycled Cardboard Furniture Gives Scrap Tubes a Second Life

We’ve featured cardboard furniture here at Inhabitat loads of times before, but we love how this set of chaise lounges, tables and chairs by Antonela Dada y Bruno Sala gives recycled cardboard tubes

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Element Flatpack Shelving System Unfolds from a Single Sheet of Aluminum

Element Flatpack Shelving System Unfolds from a Single Sheet of Aluminum

A functional flatpack shelving system set to unfold at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair, this recyclable design by the Parisian duo of NOCC is a practical DIY storage unit that can be built in a

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Dazzling Recycled Tomato Tin House Found Deep in Patagonia’s Forests

Dazzling Recycled Tomato Tin House Found Deep in Patagonia’s Forests

Bariloche-based designer Manuel Rapoport has built himself a stunning studio house clad in used tomato can tiles in the midst of Patagonia’s dense wilderness. The shiny house was built with tins

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Make Your Own DIY iPad Stand Using Leftover Takeout Chopsticks

Make Your Own DIY iPad Stand Using Leftover Takeout Chopsticks

If nights of Chinese takeout have left you with a drawer full of leftover chopsticks, here is an easy way for you to use them up and create a nifty stand for your iPad. Seen on ReadyMade as part of their

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LAST CHANCE to Vote for Your Favorite Recycled Denim Design!

LAST CHANCE to Vote for Your Favorite Recycled Denim Design!

The Recycled Denim Challenge closes tonight at midnight! Heads up DIY design fans! Ecouterre‘s Recycled Denim Challenge is currently showcasing 45 incredible recycled denim designs, and today is

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Potus Pots Turn Old Incandescent Light Bulbs into Lovely Planters

Potus Pots Turn Old Incandescent Light Bulbs into Lovely Planters

Light up your home the right way with energy-efficient CFL bulbs, then consider transforming your old incandescent bulbs into bud-growing vases like these amazing Potus Pots! Designed by Natalia Hojman

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LOTO Chandeliers Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles

LOTO Chandeliers Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles

These stunning sculptural chandeliers are far from what they appear to be. Modeled after the precious lotus flowers that emerge from murky swampland, Eugenio Menjivar’s LOTO Lamps transform oceans of

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VOTE for Your Favorite Inhabitat 2010 Spring Greening Finalists!

VOTE for Your Favorite Inhabitat 2010 Spring Greening Finalists!

Which is YOUR favorite Spring Green design? We received so many incredible entries into this year’s Spring Greening Design Competition that it was a challenging task to choose between them all. But we

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Ultra Mod Cone Light Made from Recycled Traffic Cones

Ultra Mod Cone Light Made from Recycled Traffic Cones

Whether you like to turn them into a makeshift megaphones or let them stick to their roles as traditional roadblocks, traffic cones carry a whole lot of opportunity for creativity. Another ingenious

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VOTE NOW On Inhabitat’s 2010 Spring Greening Finalists!

VOTE NOW On Inhabitat’s 2010 Spring Greening Finalists!

Drumroll please! And now the moment that you’ve all been waiting for! After weeks of deliberation on an incredible array of creative reuse projects we’re thrilled to announce the finalists of

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LAST CHANCE to Enter Our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest!

LAST CHANCE to Enter Our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest!

The Deadline for Spring Greening Entries is TONIGHT at Midnight! Heads up DIY designers – our Spring Greening Competition closes tonight at midnight, which makes this your LAST CHANCE to submit your

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LAST CHANCE to Enter the SPRING GREENING COMPETITION!

LAST CHANCE to Enter the SPRING GREENING COMPETITION!

CALLING ALL CREATIVE CRAFTERS, DIY GURUS AND DESIGN STARS! Want to showcase your DIY and design skills to the world? If you’ve turned a piece of old trash into treasure, we want to peep it –

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5 DAYS LEFT to Enter Our Spring Greening Design Competition!

5 DAYS LEFT to Enter Our Spring Greening Design Competition!

Calling all DIY crafters, green designers and spring cleaners! If you’ve taken a piece of old junk and turned it into an awe-inspiring new design, enter our Spring Greening Design Competition to

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LAST CHANCE to Enter the SPRING GREENING DESIGN COMPETITION!

LAST CHANCE to Enter the SPRING GREENING DESIGN COMPETITION!

CALLING ALL DESIGNERS, CRAFTERS AND CREATIVE-TYPES! Have you created an awesome design out of old junk that you want to show the world? Want to get it in front of millions of readers on Inhabitat.com? If

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Spring Greening Competition DEADLINE EXTENDED – Enter Now!

Spring Greening Competition DEADLINE EXTENDED – Enter Now!

Sping Greening competition deadline extended until Monday, May 3rd! Attention all DIY designers — we’re excited to announce that we’re extending the deadline of our Spring Greening DIY

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Phone Book Coffee Table

Phone Book Coffee Table

When we kicked off our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest we didn’t expect our intrepid innovators to take the call literally! We’re thoroughly impressed that Rodrigo Jaroseski of Porto

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Enter Inhabitat’s Spring Greening Contest!

Enter Inhabitat’s Spring Greening Contest!

Looking for a fun DIY project this weekend? Why not participate in Inhabitat’s first ever Spring Greening Contest for a shot at fame, fortune, and a $200 gift certificate to the Inhabitat Shop!

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MOWERCYCLE! Human powered lawn-mower

MOWERCYCLE! Human powered lawn-mower

Behold the mowercycle! Is this an awesome DIY design or what? This ingenious bicycle-lawnmower fashioned by an unknown suburban lawn owner out of an old bicycle and a broken lawnmower, is a testament to

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SUSTAINABLE DIY STYLE: London DePLOY WorkSHOP

SUSTAINABLE DIY STYLE: London DePLOY WorkSHOP

To kick off our London Design Festival Coverage our London Inhabitant Ariana Mouyiaris took a trip out to DePLOY; a sustainably and DIY-focused fashion line. Open to the public until September 25th,

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