Ladder bookcase

This little ladder from http://www.the-restoration.com has been transformed into a handsome bookshelf. I’ve even arranged the books by colour. How sad.

Filaments

If you’ve ever been to a trendy bar in East London, you’ll have seen these trendy lightbulbs. In a bid to acquire some of that trendiness, I decided to replace the horrific bare energy saving numbers in my living room with these. I bought them from http://www.urbancottageindustries.co.uk‘s historic lighting section. I first came across these…

Watch the throne.

T-illy, my little hip-hop niece, has finally got a throne. It’s taken me over a year to restore this 1930s “Atcraft” folding high-chair and because it’s so gangsta (it’s got spinners), the rest of this post will be translated through gizoogle.net – that’s right biatch. Just over a year ago I came across a 1930z…

Stop! Thief!

I stole four bulldog clips today and I feel very guilty. But it was all in the name of art. This print has been in a wrong-sized plastic IKEA frame for too long now. So hopefully this looks a little better. Next week: bedside tables made from staples and post-it notes.

Upholsterererer

Some people have accused me of being an old man. I literally have no idea where they get that from, but a couple of years ago when I’d kicked off my slippers and sat down for the second semi-final of University Challenge, I had a realisation. I realised that I hated my settee. Of course,…

Here’s one I made earlier…

Stoke Newington Church Street is home to some amazing shops, boutiques and outlets. But none are more impressive than the junk yard on Marton Road. I’m not entirely sure where the shady characters acquire their goods. Nor do I know how their seemingly random pricing structure works. But what I do know is that every…

New Header design! (kerning and leading probably a bit shoddy)

I’m sure you’ll all be very excited to see that there’s a new header on the website. It’s made entirely from photographs I’ve taken of tools, projects or materials over the past year. Now before all you design gimps that actually do this stuff for a living tell me that the kerning’s awful and the…

Elizabeth is finished (finally)!

Wow. That took longer than expected. I blame the Queen. Which is why I’m naming the table that I started work on many moons ago and have now finally completed in her honour. Elizabeth started life as a messy plasterer’s table, abandoned outside a house just down the road. I couldn’t leave her there and…