I needed a way to store some towels in my bathroom in a out-of-the-way location. I built a nice premium looking towel rack – a shelf out of bamboo and Plexiglas. Here is how to do it. The idea & the materials for the towel rack The whole project started Read more…
Living wall, green wall, vertical garden – some plants on your wall are great! What makes it even better is that you can mostly automate the process of caring for these plants. Here is how I mounted my living wall frame, how I added plants and how I added automated Read more…
I had wood left over, I built a waveform lamp. Some projects are meticulously planned, for others it is just intuition and a good idea. I had some wooden pieces left over from my bookshelf built and decided to experiment a bit. The result is a very unique lamp in Read more…
Living wall, green wall, vertical garden: there are many names for it. Putting some plants onto your walls is a recent trend that can result in beautiful rooms with better air quality. Ready made solutions are really expensive and do not necessarily match the look I was going for. So Read more…
Books on a shelf are great – books falling of a shelf less so. Here is how to 3D print some simple bookends to secure your books. The open bookshelf I recently built a set of new bookshelves from oak and black pipe. While I love the open design I Read more…
I read quite a lot and needed a new place for my books. The old shelf was not quite doing it anymore so I decided to build a new DIY bookshelf that fits the rest of the room out of oak wood and black pipes. This is how I did Read more…
I recently bought a pull-up bar to stay fit during the Corona times. It is a pretty simple black device that looks relatively good – until you see all the silber screw heads. So I went ahead and fixed that with my 3D printer. The pull-up bar A pull-up bar Read more…
Finding a great integrated blind control solution for a DIY smart home is hard. The IKEA Fyrtur and Kadrijl blinds are cheap compared to established producers and work better than most full DIY solutions. I bought one and tested it with my Home Assistant setup. The Fyrtur smart blinds The Read more…
When I moved into my current apartment I wanted to built a custom ceiling lamp for my living room. The ingredients were clear: wood and filament LEDs hanging from the ceiling. With only a couple of hours of work I built this DIY lamp in a unique design. This is Read more…
You want speakers, you want Ethernet, you want nice lighting! Good options for hiding cables are very limited. Especially when you are moving into a rented apartment and are unable to open the walls. Here are some good ways of hiding your cables for a cleaner look. A lot of Read more…