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Lampshades are, generally, very boring. Lampshades are the home decorating equivalent of tireflaps on a car. If the lamp is designed properly, you don't really even need them. That said, much like mudflaps, there's room [...]

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Everyone knows that the best place to look for cool, vintage style lighting—when you're not on a Restoration Hardware budget—is Etsy. These Menlo Park Lamps from The Dapper Llama are the newest addition to our [...]

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Turning random pieces of hardware into art is possible, but it's not always easy. By the time you're done driving to Home Depot, assembling all the parts on the floor of the store, dealing with [...]

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There are products that need a little help in the description department and there are products that speak for themselves. Then there's the Blitz WWII Bomb Lamp. Made from a recycled WWII MK23 Naval practice [...]

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When we look at the boxes of old junk in our attics, the first thought for most of us is, "How high can I jack the shipping charges to turn a profit on Ebay when [...]

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There's a reason they call dogs "man's best friend." Unlike cats, dogs want attention all the time, wait for you to get home from work and won't eat your eyeballs if you happen to kick [...]

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Create a gorgeous CAD drawing of a fantastic new product that will revolutionize the way people look at something. Have a CNC machine automatically mill it to exacting specifications. Even though it's perfectly designed and [...]

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We consider ourselves to be level headed people, but even we want to put a fist through a wall every once in a while. Something happens and it's just one of those days feelin' like [...]

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Scrolling through the work of Benclif Designs is like taking a stroll through some demonic kid's laboratory. At first it all seems very reminiscent of the work of a wiser Sid from Toy Story. Old toys and [...]

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We've been fans of vintage light fixtures for quite some time, but the price was always a huge barrier to entry for us. If we can rip down some drywall, mount brand new recessed cans [...]

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If you can think of anything cooler than having a bunch of art and lighting in your home made from recycled pieces of an airplane, let us know because we're honestly at a loss with [...]

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Despite what the name implies, a man cave needs good lighting. So if you’re still using the same $10 Ikea lamp (okay, free since you technically stole it from your roommate) from your first apartment, [...]

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Outside of DIY windmills, BB gun targets, pyramid building and impressive feats of strength, we didn't think there was anything useful to do with beer cans. Thomas Stanley Design proves us wrong again with their [...]

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When you're running late and you have somewhere you absolutely have to be, you will always be incapable of finding your keys. They're not in the bowl by the door, the pants you were just [...]

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Unlike Wayne Campbell who didn't even own a gun, let alone so many guns to necessitate an entire rack, you don't need to have a house chock-full of firearms to want one of these pieces [...]

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