DIY

Petz Scholtus’ Clean Mix Kit Will Inspire You Make Your Own Eco-Cleaning Products

Petz Scholtus’ Clean Mix Kit Will Inspire You Make Your Own Eco-Cleaning Products

Clean Mix is a very clever yet simple idea by Treehugger’s Petz Scholtus. Created in her studio, Poko Design, Scholtus developed a basic cleaning kit that consists of a refillable spray bottle and jar

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Dan Phillips Builds Enchanting and Affordable Houses from Recycled Materials

Dan Phillips Builds Enchanting and Affordable Houses from Recycled Materials

When Dan Phillips was a child, he saw his parents suffer through the Great Depression years and he quickly learned to value what he had. When he was 14 years old he built a bicycle completely out of scrap

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Glinting Shanghai Museum of Glass Is a Paragon of Sustainable Reuse

Glinting Shanghai Museum of Glass Is a Paragon of Sustainable Reuse

Built on the former site of a sprawling glass manufacturing facility in Shanghai's Baoshan District, this glinting Museum of Glass shows the rest of the world what sustainable reuse is all about. Located

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Delightful Cork ‘Pinha’ Lamp Can Be Customized in a Snap

Delightful Cork ‘Pinha’ Lamp Can Be Customized in a Snap

The Pinha Lamp is a delightful green lamp that is made from renewable cork and can be easily customized to suit any room. Designed by Tel-Aviv-born Royal College of Art graduates Yael Mer and Shay

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Rays Recycled Paper Cup Lamp is a Glowing Honeycomb of Light

Rays Recycled Paper Cup Lamp is a Glowing Honeycomb of Light

Disposable cups are hardly ever re-used, and they often find their end at the local landfill. So to cut back on this paper waste, six innovative designers in Japan have banded together to save the world

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Click Boom Pow Gives Old Furniture A 2nd Life for NY Design Week

Click Boom Pow Gives Old Furniture A 2nd Life for NY Design Week

Click Boom Pow is the onomatopoeic moniker for a small independent design studio based in New York. The creative firm, which consists of David Kim, Josh Reinhard, Tim Reaves and Mike Seto, is interested

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Crazy DIY Bike Runs With Electric Drill and Car Batteries

Crazy DIY Bike Runs With Electric Drill and Car Batteries

A cyclist has made the ultimate DIY bicycle -- complete with electric motor, comfortable office-chair seat and of course, a beer cooler. Powered by two car batteries running through a power inverter, the

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(F)utility Kitchen: A DIY Indoor Farm Made from IKEA Furniture

(F)utility Kitchen: A DIY Indoor Farm Made from IKEA Furniture

(F)utility Kitchen is a commentary on the current trend of DIY and urban farming. Artist Leslie Mutchler created the project as a way to cultivate edible vegetation in a confined space. The gravity-drip

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DIY: Make Your Own “Diamond” Ring Out of Waste Paper

DIY: Make Your Own “Diamond” Ring Out of Waste Paper

Old postcards, magazine-covers and packaging material may be things you normally trash (in the recycle bin, of course) but have you ever thought about using them as some bling for your finger? Designer

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DIY TV Shelves: Transform Your Television Into Something Useful

DIY TV Shelves: Transform Your Television Into Something Useful

It's a well-known fact that the rapid pace of technological progress results in a tremendous amount of outdated computers, TV's and other electronics, so we love to see creative solutions for repurposing

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DIY Treehouse Bed Allows Your Kid To Make Like Swiss Family Robinson

DIY Treehouse Bed Allows Your Kid To Make Like Swiss Family Robinson

Forget the futons and canopy beds, here's a sweet new space-saving bed that takes dreaming to new heights. A DIY design by blogger mom Juli of The Slow Life, this whimsical construction was inspired by

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VIDEO: The ABCs of Basic Bicycle Repair!

VIDEO: The ABCs of Basic Bicycle Repair!

Shed your winter coat and don your bike helmet, because spring is here! Start your biking season off right by giving your bicycle some love - tune up love that is! Our friends over at Etsy just released a

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Grow a Lush Green Garden Inside Your Furniture With FurniBloom

Grow a Lush Green Garden Inside Your Furniture With FurniBloom

Looking for a fun alternative to your home or office's drab and lifeless seating? Then take a cue from the FurniBloom designed by Icelandic landscape architect Dagný Bjarnadóttir. A set of furniture

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Sarajevo Survival Tools: Ingenious DIY Designs for Life During Wartime

Sarajevo Survival Tools: Ingenious DIY Designs for Life During Wartime

Sarajevo Survival Tools is a showcase of extraordinary ready-made objects that citizens of Sarajevo had to design and hand-make when the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina was under siege from 1992 to

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Seattle Treehouse is a Wonderful Retreat for Kids and Adults Alike

Seattle Treehouse is a Wonderful Retreat for Kids and Adults Alike

This gorgeous tree-top residence in Seattle tells a wonderful story of inventive architecture and repurposed and recycled materials. The Hale-Edmonds family took on the challenge of a steeply sloping site

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Carnivorous Furniture Eats Insects and Vermin to Generate Energy

Carnivorous Furniture Eats Insects and Vermin to Generate Energy

British designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau have devised a series of unsettling furnishings that are sure to split the field when it comes to defining “green design”. These mechanized

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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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19 Year Old Teenager Makes Homemade Solar Death Ray

19 Year Old Teenager Makes Homemade Solar Death Ray

Concentrated solar power has the potential to generate immense amounts of energy -- but it can also be amazingly destructive. American student Eric Jacqmain has assembled over 5,800 mirrors into his own

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How to Make Your Own Recycled Wood Shipping Pallet Dining Table

How to Make Your Own Recycled Wood Shipping Pallet Dining Table

Our friends at ReadyMade sent us a batch of creative DIY projects that reuse reclaimed materials, and this shipping pallet table really caught our eye. Crafted by Jen Turner, who got the idea from a

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GREEN GIFT GUIDE: Last Minute Eco Gifts

GREEN GIFT GUIDE: Last Minute Eco Gifts

Don't stress out if you missed the opportunity to have one of the fabulous gifts from our green guides shipped in time for the holidays. There are plenty of thoughtful last-minute green gifts for everyone

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Nashville Musician Re-Uses Vinyl Records as Roof Shingles

Nashville Musician Re-Uses Vinyl Records as Roof Shingles

According to Jazz.com, Nashville-based musician Matt Glassmeyer has been known to create his own instruments. This time, however, Matt has fashioned a roof for his porch using 350 damaged records. In lieu

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DIY Vertical Gardens by Ginkgo Design

DIY Vertical Gardens by Ginkgo Design

These adorable miniature vertical gardens were created by Dutch design house Ginkgo Studio but you can make your own. Just choose your favorite indoor plants (if not too big!) and plant them in a wooden

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Recycled Suitcase Chair Perfect for Globe-Trotting Couch Potatoes

Recycled Suitcase Chair Perfect for Globe-Trotting Couch Potatoes

Nothing says “it’s time to get away” better than a packed suitcase – so when we spotted this awesome chair made from a recycled suitcase we couldn’t help but be enamored.

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DIY Creations Race the Tracks of the San Jose Biennial Green Prix

DIY Creations Race the Tracks of the San Jose Biennial Green Prix

Even with all the groaning over the often exorbitant costs of purchasing a new eco-ride, there are still more than a handful of people excited about eco-friendly alternatives in transportation. So what

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DIY Gowanus Houseboat Debuts at GreenHome NYC’s Block Party!

DIY Gowanus Houseboat Debuts at GreenHome NYC’s Block Party!

© Sam Horine To celebrate this year's GreenHome NYC DIY Green Block Party, 'Jerko the Gowanus Water Vacuum' will take its Maiden Voyage October 2nd, floating along the Gowanus Canal - one of New

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Naked Table Project Invites You to Make Your Own Sustainable Table

Naked Table Project Invites You to Make Your Own Sustainable Table

Appealing to those that crave locally grown, locally made, and hand crafted products, the Naked Table Project invites us to get intimate with creating sustainable furniture. Charles Shackleton, a Vermont

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Colorful Retro Lights Made from Recycled Cans

Colorful Retro Lights Made from Recycled Cans

Andy Warhol may have brought Campbell's Soup to iconic pop art status, but there's one designer bent on redefining this can with a more practical use. Designed by Willem Heeffer for FUSE, an interiors and

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DIY: Make Your Own Giant LED Balloons to Measure Air Quality

DIY: Make Your Own Giant LED Balloons to Measure Air Quality

Air quality in urban areas can be horrendous. For instance, in New York and Los Angeles the air quality is consistently below federal safety levels. So, how do you know how good/bad the air in your back

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Core77.com Launches Their First Flagship Retail Store!

Core77.com Launches Their First Flagship Retail Store!

Any design buff knows that the best place outside of Inhabitat to get to scoop on all the hottest new industrial designs is Core77. As huge fans of the site, we were more than thrilled to hear that this

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DIY: How to Make a Beautiful Book Planter

DIY: How to Make a Beautiful Book Planter

A few months ago, Inhabitat featured some great upcycled book planters from Gartenkulter Studio. Since my Italian's not too sharp, I decided to make my own, and made a video to show others. Hit the jump

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