A Beautiful Mess: HOME TOUR Hi friends! I'm so happy to invite you in for a little tour of my laundry room! I've spent the last few months obsessing over this teeny tiny space. Weird, I know. Foot-powered washing machine made from recycled materials costs just $4 Living in the developing world has its own perks that includes access to clean water, electricity and appliances that make our lives a lot easier. However, the conditions are just the opposite in many parts of the developing world where people have to work hard for even the most basic of facilities. According to research people living in the rural parts of Africa have to walk for many hours just to get clean water. Moreover, many such villages aren’t even connected to the electric grid, which means basic home appliances are still a futuristic dream for the natives.
Top 25 Interior Design & Furniture Blogs We scoured the web looking for the best interior design and furniture blogs, and below is what we found. From large multi-writer blogs like Moco Loco to more personal fare like Gaile Guevara, the below 25 blogs (plus 5 honorable mentions) are the cream of the design crop. 1. Design Sponge This style website is the cream of the crop – using a gentle and creative presentation, Design Sponge serves up multiple posts every day about home design, new and innovative products and tips on home living in a modern world. You will discover gems within every post, whether they discuss mini trends like ombre and glass lamps or give a detailed “before and after” description (complete with beautiful photos) of room and furniture redecoration.
FarmHack: Collaboratively Retooling Agriculture FarmHack is a network for sharing open source know-how amongst the distributed fringe of DIY agricultural tech aficionados and innovators. In the same vein as Appropedia or Open Source Ecology, a collaborative digital knowledge-base facilitates the harvest of crowd wisdom to address challenges and inefficiencies in modern ecological (and economical) farm operation. It is a project of Young Farmers Coalition and somewhat angled to the exuberant and tech-savvy eco-preneurial demographic, but inclusive and supportive of all open earthy inhabitants.
interior design ideas and inspiration for the transitional home: Elegant in greige: Suzanne Rheinstein's Manhattan Home Elegant in greige: Suzanne Rheinstein's Manhattan Home I just have to say Thank You to Elle Decor this month for being so fantastic!! This is such a great example of vintage style mixes- love the tables and stools- not to mention the walls.... images via Elle decor Wood pulp extract stronger than carbon fiber or Kevlar The Forest Products Laboratory of the US Forest Service has opened a US$1.7 million pilot plant for the production of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) from wood by-products materials such as wood chips and sawdust. Prepared properly, CNCs are stronger and stiffer than Kevlar or carbon fibers, so that putting CNC into composite materials results in high strength, low weight products. In addition, the cost of CNCs is less than ten percent of the cost of Kevlar fiber or carbon fiber. These qualities have attracted the interest of the military for use in lightweight armor and ballistic glass (CNCs are transparent), as well as companies in the automotive, aerospace, electronics, consumer products, and medical industries. View all
Elizabeth Anne Designs: The Wedding Blog - Wedding Ideas and Inspiration No words can express our love for the beauty that unfolds on our favorite blogs each and every day and this week the wedding world was blooming with a limitless amount of prettiness. We are so thankful that we get to close out every Friday with a small amount of lovely from the week. Have a beautiful weekend! {Image by Lisa Lefkowitz via Snippet & Ink} Biostruct - High-Performance Building Materials for Energy Efficient, Sustainable, Passive Solar and LEED Construction Though it is less sexy than its modern counterparts, industrial hemp has entered the conversation as a material with an exciting future. It is showing up in products with uses that range from ultra-specialized to everyday. But can industrial hemp compete in a world focused on high-tech solutions?
ZsaZsa Bellagio PARTY DETAILS as told by Jessica. . . . “The most important part of every party or shower is the food. Well, aside from the party decor and invitations, of course! Open Tech Forever - R&D Factory for Open Source Industrial Hardware Open Tech Forever - R&D Factory for Open Source Industrial Hardware is sponsored by Shareable.net which supports projects that help people share. Let's Help Create the Open Source Economy! "Open Tech Forever is essential to building the collaborative society that we should be striving for." - Daniel Fernández de Córdova, co-founder of Machina Open Tech Forever is helping create the Open Source Economy: a collaborative society that shares its knowledge, skills, technologies, and resources to overcome artificial barriers and achieve abundance and prosperity for all.
Creators - Dedicated to inspiring designers, inventors & the creative spirit in all of us. August 22, 2013 Artist’s Work Paints a Beautiful Picture Animations Tyrus Wong, a 102-year-old artist’s work influenced the visual direction of Bambi in 1941. An exhibition at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco will be held to celebrate Wong’s work.