Kategorie: DIY (English)
All posts are about Do-It-Yourself. Attention, wet paint and lots of Gaffa tape!
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Power Mac G4 Gin Stash
What to do with an old (and not working) Power Mac G4, that has been down in the basement for 10 years? Of course: A secret Gin stash! So your guests will still think „nerd!“ when they visit you and all your gin bottles are together in one place. Step 1: Remove all the parts.…
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Making a house temporarily wheelchair-accessible
Due to an accident my parents‘ house had temporarily to be made as wheelchair-accessible as possible. Temporarily because the wheelchair was only neede for a couple of weeks. This once again showed that no education is wrong – especially, when it is about technical skills. Thanks, college for mechanical engineering! First step: Adding support handles…
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Checkered Book shelf
I really like checkered patterns, as you might have noticed in this blog post. So why not create also a bookshelf in that design? The shelf is based on 30 pieces (12 white and 18 black) of 1×1 Expedit shelves by IKEA. Unfortunately IKEA discontinued the Expedit programme in 2014 and replaced it with Kallax, but I managed to…
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Polaroid-Wall
I discovered analog photography quite late (but better than never) with my Mamiya RB67 with a polaroid back. So in addition the only thing that is missing is a proper way of displaying the outcome. Sticking them onto the wall would be too easy (and boring). Better to use black and white „object frames“ –…
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LED Dinner Table
What to do when you can’t find a nice dinner table for your new flat? Build one! I wanted to build something with Bosch-Rexroth-Profiles (normally exhibition stands are made with these – it’s like LEGO for grown ups) for quite a while. And something with LED lighting. So the project was clear: an illuminated dinner table. The table is…
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Motivation in a frame
My favourite customers got a special hand-made thank-you-for-the-great-cooperation-present this year: a motivational poster! (More or less) smart motivational sayings and quotes are written with a classic typewriter (I won’t say how many typos I made and how many pieces of paper I needed) on a piece of parchment paper (ca. 10x7cm; available in paper stores…
