Killer DIY projects you can do at home

Sometimes all we need is a little inspiration to get started on that DIY home project.

Step by step instructional decor projects

Looking to spice up that one room in the house? Search to find your inspiration!

Tip #1 Always select the right tools for the job.

No need to fear the tools you have at home. When used properly you may be suprised what you can accomplish.

Tip #2 Measure twice, cut once.

Keep a close eye on all of your measurements before cutting any material.

Tip #3 Secure your project if at all possible.

Be sure to secure your project if at all possible when working.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

A Light, Bright Apartment Renovation in Barcelona

View of the Contemporary Art + Design Wing at the Corning Museum of Glass

To celebrate the first anniversary of the Contemporary Art + Design Wing at the Corning Museum of Glass, the museum acquires new pieces for their permanent collection.

March 15, 2016

Renovated apartment by YLAB in Barcelona's Diagonal Mar district

Architectural design firm YLAB Arquitectos Barcelona renovate an apartment in the Diagonal Mar district of their Spanish hometown.

March 15, 2016

P.A.T.H. Prefab Home by Philippe Starck for Riko

Every Monday, @dwell and @designmilk invite fans and experts on Twitter to weigh in on trending topics in design.

March 14, 2016

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Many leading companies have begun to realize the benefits of having a well-designed, quality kitchen in their office, and have created spaces where their employees can rejuvenate, collaborate, and grow as a team. Over the past 18 months, Henrybuilt has worked with a number of brands to build unique in-house kitchens in which their employees can look forward to enjoying on a daily basis. In 2015, they decided to try it out for themselves and installed a test kitchen into their Seattle design and production facility.

March 14, 2016

Loft-like living room in rural California

An energy-efficient home mines inspiration from a gold rush town in the California foothills.

March 14, 2016

A Manhattan apartment with an airy staircase.

An apartment opens up with a striking staircase that connects multiple rooms together for an art-filled home.

March 14, 2016

Pompidou Center store by Marie Deroudilhe.

After a month-long renovation, a selection of iconic designs is abound in the museum’s newly relaunched store.

March 14, 2016

Modern home with a cantilevered roof in the Missouri prairie

In Lee's Summit, Missouri, a striking family home accommodates an autistic teenager.

March 14, 2016

A cluster of off-the-grid prefabricated units.

With the harsh sun beating overhead, these designs deflect, diffuse, and absorb energy so you stay comfy—and don't stick to your leather couch.

March 14, 2016

Renovated warehouse with exposed structure and ample skylights.

A family of three—and their six vintage American cars—all find their home within this historic 4,500-square-foot building.

March 14, 2016

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A luminous new kitchen and dining area bring a 1968 tri-level residence in Reno into the 21st century.

March 13, 2016

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If a house is a machine for living, an occasional system update is necessary. Accessibility experts weigh in on how to maximize safety and function—for all ages and abilities—in the bathroom.

March 13, 2016

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In Chapel Hill, a renovated kitchen takes painterly cues from Piet Mondrian.

March 13, 2016

Renovated kitchen in London

When their house was in need of a pick-me-up, a London couple turned to the designer of their favorite coffee shop for an industrial-strength renovation.

March 12, 2016

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A new book from Phaidon, Studio Olafur Eliasson: The Kitchen, documents a beloved daily routine in the artist’s Berlin studio: group lunch. Ninety employees, from architects to painters, enjoy a family-style meal at communal tables. Recipes and photos reveal that even food serves as a medium of expression in this multi-disciplinary practice.

March 12, 2016

Renovated kitchen at a Melbourne bungalow

An Australian family living in Singapore plans a homecoming renovation, one Skype chat at a time.

March 12, 2016

Lloyd Wright Home Brentwood

A 1936 house by the architectural scion comes back to market.

March 11, 2016

Renovated exterior in Toronto

Following the acquisition of an architectural piece by artist Rikrit Tiravanija, an art collector renovates his Toronto home with an eye towards aesthetic sightlines.

March 11, 2016

Artist studio in Inverness

High above Point Reyes and the Tomales Bay in Northern California, an artist studio frames a picture-perfect landscape.

March 11, 2016

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Tshepo Mokholo is an architect-turned-designer whose goal is to bring about inner city change through better design.

March 11, 2016

Oak Pass House by Noah Walker

You'll be stepping up your Instagram game after you see these homes.

March 11, 2016

Outdoor prefab camping unit from Lushna.

Produced by the Slovenian company Lushna, these tiny structures can quickly provide all the shelter and comfort of a modern cabin.

March 11, 2016

3D printed Pokemon toys.

In celebration of Pokémon's 20th anniversary, the 3D printing website 3D Hubs worked with designer Flowalistik to make these pocket monsters available to you.

March 11, 2016

Small Berlin apartment with an open-plan living area

This colorful apartment packs a big punch in a small footprint.

March 11, 2016

The library of Sitterwerk, a Swiss foundation.

As a place where creative thinkers and the public come together, the Swiss foundation Sitterwerk is an expansive resource featuring an art library, material archive, and studios. A new book published by Soberscove Press features translated essays from the collection investigating how the library is organized.

March 11, 2016

Living room with a Roche Bobois table

A renovated home blends interior and exterior, uniting nature and materiality.

March 11, 2016

Beau Geste performance DzExceptional Transport: duet for a dancer and an excavatordz at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah.

A series of exhibitions and performances at the Savannah College of Art and Design spark creative conversations across disciplines.

March 10, 2016

A 1,300-square-foot home in Israel.

A growing family in Israel keeps it clean and easy with clever storage solutions and a minimal color palette.

March 10, 2016

Raa Day Care Center by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter.

Träpriset, the Swedish timber prize, celebrates notable architecture every four years for developments and innovations with wood. This year the award goes to Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, who accepted the award last night at a ceremony in Stockholm for the Raa Day Care Center.

March 10, 2016

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Each week, we tap into Dwell's Instagram community to bring you the most viral design and architecture shots of the week.

March 09, 2016


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Sunday, March 13, 2016

BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2016: One week left to enter

Businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, executives, project managers, and campaigners urged to showcase their work at the UK's largest green business awards

Businesses, sustainability executives, green entrepreneurs, and environmental NGOs have just one week left to submit their entry for the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2016 and ensure they are in the running for the UK's most prestigious green business awards.

Following the most eventful 12 months yet for the UK's green economy, featuring record clean tech investment, deep emission reductions, and the historic Paris Agreement, BusinessGreen is once again looking to celebrate the best and brightest from across the green economy.

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Businesses, NGOs, and individuals now have until Monday 21 March at 5pm to submit their entries and be in with a chance of winning one of the UK's most coveted green business awards.

BusinessGreen is seeking entries across a wide range of categories, including Circular Economy Project of the Year, Renewable Energy Project of the Year, Sustainability Executive of the Year, Leader of the Year, Small Business of the Year, and the prestigious Company of the Year.

As in previous years, the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards are free to enter. However, BusinessGreen does require all shortlisted entries to purchase a minimum of two tickets to attend the glamorous black tie awards ceremony. Attendees will enjoy a networking drinks reception, three course meal, and a glittering awards ceremony, while all finalists and highly commended entries will receive a certificate to mark their achievement at the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards.

Moreover, all finalists on the evening will feature in a new report, supported by headline sponsor AECOM, which will provide a snapshot into the most inspiring and innovative projects, companies, and individuals working to drive progress across the green economy.

Peter Skinner, chief executive environment and ground engineering for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa at AECOM, urged companies from across the green economy to take the opportunity to highlight their pioneering work.

"The BusinessGreen Leaders Awards are all about showcasing best practice and championing innovation," he said. "From recognising individuals who have spent their careers advancing the sustainability agenda to acknowledging businesses that have transformed the way they operate, the Awards have become an established event for those active in the green economy."


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Unravelling the investment opportunities for the circular economy

How do you turn the circular economy from a nice idea into an investable business model?

Over the last few years there has been a wealth of research into the economic windfall a circular economy could bestow on those that adopt a zero waste model. One landmark 2015 study from the Ellen...


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Will climate sceptics' dreams come true post-Brexit?

If there are any undecided environmentalists out there, the referendum debate is badly letting them down

What will happen to the green economy in the event of a vote for Brexit? That is the €671bn question. The only honest answer is 'we don't know'. And, yes, yes, I appreciate we don't know what will happen in the event of the UK voting to remain in Europe either. But anyone suggesting the continuation of the imperfect status quo is as laden down with uncertainty as the alternative leap into an ill-defined future as a sort of wind-swept, North Atlantic Singapore is not someone you want on your team in a game of Risk.

Last week, the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) did as good a job as possible in finding an answer to this crucial question. But the huge array of Rumsfeldian known unknowns and unknown unknowns meant that on both policy detail and big picture trends it is impossible to know what would happen to the UK's green economy and clean tech sector under a Brexit scenario.

We know those parts of the green economy most effectively insulated from policy meddling would likely continue to prosper and the overall long-term outlook would remain as positive as it always has been for an industry that is growing fast globally and is critical to long term economic and environmental stability. But on the specific questions of habitats policy, agricultural subsidies, clean energy ambition, emissions trading, international trade, R&D funding, air and water quality, climate strategy, and a whole lot more, confusion reigns.

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We do, however, have a pretty good idea what the bulk of climate sceptics now campaigning vociferously for Brexit want. As Andrew Warren pointed out last week dubious claims are being circulated by the eurosceptic camp that leaving the EU would lead to lower energy bills - a highly contestable claim that suggests the 'Outers' envisage a world where renewable energy targets and climate goals they blame for higher energy prices are scrapped.

Climate sceptics seem to be saying 'vote for Brexit and get lower energy bills', when what they mean is 'vote for Brexit and then it might, perhaps, be easier for us to repeal the Climate Change Act and scrap renewable energy targets, allowing us to unleash a new generation of coal and gas plants that may cut bills in the short term - and might also lead to climate catastrophe, but let's not worry about that right now. And no, I won't tell you who donates to my think tank. How dare you even ask'.

It is also worth noting at this point that this climate sceptic dream scenario would make it much harder to deliver the trade deal with the EU some Brexiters claim our European cousins would be begging to grant us if we decided to leave the club. If the UK were to ditch renewable targets and scrap the Climate Change Act why should those neighbouring countries responsibly investing in tackling collective climate risks accept free trade with a high carbon free loader off its coast? Carbon tariffs would be one of the first items on the agenda of any putative trade deal.

Anyways, as so often happens in any column about the EU referendum, I digress.

The point is the vision of a high carbon, gossamer light touch regulation, Adam Smith tribute economy advocated by some Brexiters does not actually go much of the way towards answering the question of what happens to the green economy in the event of an out vote. Even if the climate sceptics in the Brexit camp are toasting victory come the morning of June 24th, they are not the government (no matter how much they like to pretend otherwise). They won't have the power to enact their vision to rebuild a post-EU UK as a polluter powerhouse, and even if they did their apparent love of democracy would surely require them to test their proposals to tear up environmental protections with the electorate first.

Win an election with the destruction of the UK's climate policies and environmental protections front and centre in the manifesto and then convince a second chamber - which all those Brexit lairy haters of unaccountable elites must surely now accept should be elected - of the wisdom of reversing climate action, and then fair enough. Tearing up environmental rules would still be a recklessly stupid move that would alienate the UK from many of its international partners for a generation, but at least the rebranding of this great country as a North Sea Texas would have a veneer of democratic accountability.

Again, I digress. My point is that in the shorter term it is impossible to know what Brexit really means for environmental legislation and the green investment climate. A leave vote would embolden climate sceptics and likely lead to changes to environmental regulations, but it is not clear how much, nor to what end.

Faced with this uncertainty it is hardly unsurprising green businesses and environmental professionals are almost as monolithic in their support of the In campaign as climate sceptics are siding with their Eurosceptic peers. But if there are any green-minded voters out there who remain undecided on the referendum, then they are being badly let down. Businesses and investors trying to plan for both potential outcomes are similarly being denied the simple answers to simple questions that would both inform the electorate and reduce the risk of massive disruption in the wake of the referendum.

What is urgently needed is a much clearer sense from both the government, which surely has a contingency plan in place, and the Out campaign on what happens in the event of a Brexit victory.

There are myriad questions for government departments, but here are just a few: what happens to the CAP, the habitats directive, the renewable energy target, the circular economy package, the air quality rules, and, yes, the Climate Change Act and its carbon budgets?

'Too complicated', ministers will protest, 'it depends on how detailed Brexit negotiations and trade talks pan out'. Well yes, but what would the government's preferred outcome be? What do Boris, George, Theresa, and Dave want to do if the cards fall this way and they end up in Number 10 tasked with managing the UK's exit from the union? Once freed from the 'shackles' of Brussels' environmental policy do they really want to make the UK a dirtier, smoggier place? Do they want to be remembered as the generation of politicians that left the EU and turned the North of England into a North Dakota oil field with added hotpots?

Unfortunately, it benefits neither side to address this uncertainty. The Outers can't because they can't agree amongst themselves what they want, an end to environmental regulation as we know it or a Zac Goldsmith inspired reinvigoration of green policy, and the In camp knows that in narrow electoral terms uncertainty strengthens their argument that Brexit represents a potentially dangerous leap in the smog.

The net result is this massively important debate is reduced to trite arguments about sovereignty and risk, immigration and freedom, not to mention fantasy climate sceptic predictions about what may one day happen, when and if decades of legislation, international diplomacy, global investment trends, and scientific inquiry are eventually unpicked in their favour. The British public and business community deserve better.


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Green Budget prospects – What might the Treasury say?

RenewableUK's Dr Gordon Edge considers how this week's Budget announcement could affect clean energy funding

In all the frenzy about Brexit, one can be forgiven for forgetting there is a rather important political/economic date imminent - the Budget. Given the apparent takeover of energy policy by the Treasury,...


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