Hanging around: From pants to pictures (to the MacGyver Challenge)

As far as I’m concerned, there are never too many ways to display photographs, prints, and posters…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Ideas We Wish We'd Thought Of, Design IQ, Reinventing X
June 23rd, 2008

Taking it all off: Reverse graffiti swaps spray paint for soap

The Reverse Graffiti project has turned the concept of street art on its head. Instead of spray painting city surfaces, the Reverse Graffiti team artfully cleans up urban dirt and soot…

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Amanda : Raw Materials, Design IQ, Reinventing X, Events, Sustainable living
June 23rd, 2008

LETS do this

It’s true: Dumpster diving has supplied me with plenty of furniture in the past, and filled many former apartments. But even when financial constraints reached desperate levels…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Reinventing X, Sustainable living
June 17th, 2008

Just a trim

The Brick House blog—a real-time record of the budget renovation of a 1950s cement brick house—is a treasure trove of on-the-cheap household fixes. A recent post chronicled a quick customization project that transformed a borderline tacky…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Design IQ, Reinventing X
June 12th, 2008

Out of the closet and framed

I’ve found another way to combat my blank walls, and—bonus—it also involves displaying textile gems from the past…

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Amanda : DIY Projects, Reinventing X, Stuff We Love
June 11th, 2008

MacGyver Challenge: Clothes Hangers

{Deadline: July 21, 2008}
by Anthony Discenza

Hangers, no matter how dutifully we purge them, tend to multiply. Drawn to the dark corners of our closets…

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Jen : DIY Projects, Reinventing X, Events
June 9th, 2008