Latest Stories in Interior Design - Page 15
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You Can Recycle Window Blinds? Yes, You Can
Up until now, when you wanted to update your living room, or when you moved into a new place and needed to get rid of the junk that the previous tenants left, you didn't really have any options except to haul it out to the
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Smart Light Sydney: Seeing the Light Whilst Reducing the Energy
Sydney, Australia was the city that pioneered Earth Hour, turning off its lights to highlight the energy issues inherent in the climate change dilemma. Now, and for the next three weeks they are turning the lights on for the same cause. Smart Light
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Reassemble the Mosspink Sofa From Brühl (Video)
The whole Brühl family gets involved in the display of the award-winning MossPink sofa in the German design section; it was designed by Kati Meyer-Brühl and is occupied by Anna Meyer-Brühl, who demonstrates its functions in the video.
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Dumpster Divers Turn Cardboard into Lighting (Video)
photo credit: Inhabitat, who did a much better job
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Stamen Lamps Made From Hundreds of Toothpicks (Video)
Mike Chino at Inhabitat
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Quantum Dots Make LED Lightbulbs Emit More Pleasant Light
Photo: Mark Lennihan Improving the Light Quality of LED Lightbulbs LED lights have been working on overcoming two challenges: Generating pleasing light, and being low-cost. QD Vision and Nexxus Lighting have been working together on the first of these.
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IKEA, Meet The Salvos. Southern Hemisphere Giants As Retail Neighbours
IKEA's plans to build their largest retail store in the southern hemisphere, have apparently just received New South Wales government approval to proceed. Reports suggest it will require a short stroll of just 2.5 km (1.6 miles) to wander from the
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Transformer Furniture: The Nod Office by Stephen Johnson
...because I just saw a newer version last
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Last Incandescent Bulb Slips out of Grand Central Terminal
The last of four thousand incandescent bulbs were changed to compact fluorescents at Grand Central Terminal in New York yesterday, which will save an estimated US$ 200,000 per year in electricity charges and reduce the amount of CO2 and
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Green and Responsible CFL Vendors sell the Light, not the Bulb
A common complaint we hear about compact fluorescents is that milligram of mercury is going to kill us if it gets into the air or into the landfills. Like most things that go into landfills or recycling bins, like pop bottles and electronics, there
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Another Way To Hide The Bed: Put It In A Box
We often show ingenious ways of hiding the bed. French architects Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec offer a new one: turn it into a sculptural element, in this case a box hanging from the ceiling.
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Electrified Computerized Cradle Rocks Your Baby To Sleep
In our tireless quest to burn coal and waste electricity in new ways, we offer the Suima electric cradle. For $4,255 you get a unit that has a microphone that detects crying noises. Tokyo Mango reports that " It's programmed to start with a quick-paced
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The $300 Makeover: Save The Money.
Times are tough all over, and even the normally over-the-top New York Times homes section is getting the message. The theme today is the Three Hundred Dollar Makeover, full of tips that one might find in Craft or
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India to Phase Out 400 Million Incandescent Lightbulbs by 2012, Replace With CFLs
While not an outright ban on incandescent lightbulbs, under India's Bachat Lamp Yojana program the nation's 400 million incandescent lightbulbs will be replaced by CFLs over the next three years. The energy
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FoxFury LED Headlights Light Up Trails, Protests and Wildfires
Image via: FoxFury FoxFury, maker of lights of all shapes and sizes, has just come out with their heavy-duty Fire Figher Rated Headlamp. If you're in the market for a headlamp that is fire resistant, impact resistant and water proof up to 20 feet, then
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Adhocism in Action: The Staypuff Crib
Stage your own remake of The Battleship Potemkin with the Staypuff Crib from São Paulo's 20.87 Design Studio. Its base is "a combination of pneumatic wheels and metal and the top is of reforested Pinus wood." Great for flexible living spaces and
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Phillippe Nigro's Table for People in a Hurry
Table tops are easy; any old door or slab will do. Legs are tougher; you can go to IKEA or Mockett and buy any number of different designs of legs that can be screwed on, but nothing so simple to install as Phillipe Nigro's idea for a
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Record-Breaking CFL Sales from UK Retailer
Image credit: Together Campaign January CFL Sales Beat Whole of 2006 Times may be hard, but people are still willing to fork out money if it saves them energy in the long run. CFLs are being adopted at an astounding rate in the UK, at least if the
