Wow, check out what you can do with recycled plastic bags, make an artistic chair like this!

via make, Design Page

Looking for some new carpet that will spice up your hardwood floors?  Well, FLOR sells some of really awesome modular floor tiles you can get to decorate your livingroom in a whole new way.  Plus, I think this will be great if you have toddlers and hard floors.  With thiese floor tiles, you can easily set aside some room for your kids to play on.

Best yet, this FLOR company also uses eco-friendly, recycled materials for their floor tiles.

FLOR carpet squares let you easily design area rugs to fit any size space or install wall-to-wall in minutes. Available in a variety of beautiful colors, patterns and textures, FLOR’s easy-to-install tiles give you creative control over the largest canvas in your home - your floors!

Eco-friendly and recyclable, FLOR is the perfect combination of style, practicality and responsibility. Proving that green really can be beautiful, easy, flexible and above all else, attainable.

via theinspiredroom, Product Page

Here’s a cool DIY showing you how to use ceiling medallions as wall art, great idea for your home.

The lightweight urethane medallions were simply painted in subtly varying shades of yellow and easily mounted on the wall of this living room. The medallions are affordable, around $20 to $30, so it’s quite an attainable way to bring “art” into your home. Another thought? Pick up a medallion with a circular opening in the center, and have a glass cutter make you a round mirror to size, and you’ll have an ornate mirror at a fractional price.

via casasugar

Here’s a cool way to refreshen your old furniture with some paint and wallpapers.

1) Sand and prime the surface of the furniture.

2) Paint the surface. In this case, a white latex paint was used.

3) Change out the knobs with ones you love. (Flea markets are a great resource for vintage knobs and drawer accessories.)

4) Measure and cut the sections you’d like to cover with wallpaper. An adhesive like 3M Hi-Strength 90 spray will help secure the paper to the wood. (Quick tip - make sure you place the pattern in the right direction)

5) Finish the project by using a finishing spray and allow the furniture piece to air dry.

via apartmenttherapy, DIY Page

It seems like designers are getting more involved in the “green movement” with masterpiece DIY Coffee Tables like this, which are made from old Car Hoods.

Our advice, “re-use, re-make” and you can still come up with magnificent designs.

Using hoods from vintage American cars, Joel Hester handcrafts coffee tables in his Dallas, TX studio. Taking advantage of the bright colors of yesteryear and the patterns created by oxidization, the one-of-a-kind steel pieces add industrial chic to living rooms.

via make,ch, Design Page

Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode

A Korean-born designer has designed what seems like “air bubble” chair that pumps itself when you walk.

I think this is a really great idea for concerts and outdoor events where people have to stand constantly.

For example, it would be great to have this while watching Tiger Woods play in a real PGA Tournament, you’d have a chair for every hole you are at. (or wherever you are at)

Just don’t take the bus with the chair inflated, make sure to deflate the thing first.

Artist and interactive designer, JooYoun Paek takes the cake on that front with her recently revealed Self-Sustainable Chair, a wearable piece of furniture which is a dress where the butt inflates into a chair through pumps in the shoes. Paek hopes the provocative art piece will “transform the humdrum experiences produced by routine walking commutes into an amusing interactive performance.” Featured at this weekend’s Conflux Festival, her quirky and intriguing project suggests that rest and walk can be balanced by re-thinking the function of what we wear.

via inhabitat

Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode

Remember those DIY Coffee Tables from Evil Mad Scientists?  Well, here’s a similar one from Sparkfun.

“The table itself was bought secondhand and refinished. Then it was retrofitted with proper mounting for the big LED matrix. The individual LED matrices were mounted on a custom plastic frame. All this work was done by resident mechanical engineer and lady-killer Casey Haskell. The matrices are connected 8 to a row, all 8 rows controlled via a custom router board connected to an Olimex LPC2106 development board. The entire rig is powered by a hacked 500 watt CPU power supply.

via hackedgadgets, DIY Page

Here’s a cool DIY on how to build your own bat cave with hidden rooms just like Batman.

If you’re in the market for a Batcave—or just a place to hide your stamp collection—then Steve Humble of Creative Home Engineering should be your next call. The mechanical engineer turned secret-passageway builder started his Phoenix-based company when he couldn’t find anyone to build a hidden room for his home. “I thought that there would be a lot of people who would want a secret passageway in their house,” he says. “So I took a gamble, quit my job and started making them.”

via popularmechanics

Chair made out of Playstation 2 Casing!

Here’s a really cool chair made out of Playstation 2 casings.  (What a way to recycle that PS2, I have one too but it’s not up for recycling yet until I get my hands on a PS3)

Pli Design is preparing to launch next week a line of eco-friendly chairs, made entirely of recycled PlayStation 2 console casings. The stylish Reee Chairs are also designed to be recycled again and again, doubly contributing to their environmental appeal.

“The simple idea behind the Reee chair is to produce a recycled furniture product in the UK that has style, function and durability but does not compromise its environmental credentials - so our customers don’t have to compromise theirs,” said Alex Whitney, Pli’s design manager in a news release.

via keetsa, dj