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Modern Stool Costs $5 to Make, Looks Like a Million Bucks

Posted: 10 May 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Having cool, simple, modern furniture in your home is great, but there is the big problem of how to afford that furniture. One way, which has been popular with a certain breed of adventurous souls for a very long time, is to make it yourself. On HomeMade Modern, Ben Uyeda shows how to turn $5 worth of materials into a stool that looks like it cost 10 times as much.

The plans are simple and bare-bones: get a bucket, mix some concrete in it, stick dowels in, let it dry, and then pull out a finished stool. The instructions aren’t literally that simple, of course, but they are easy enough that even the novice DIYer could pull off this project with little to no frustration.

Like any good DIY project, this one is infinitely customizable. You can change the shape of the seat depending on the mold you use for the concrete; add an extra leg or some extra support for the legs; even add a splash of color. And although the project is called The $5 Bucket Stool, you can use it in just about any room as a small table, plant stand or bedside table.

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Fractured Reflections: Arty Mirrors Provide Alternate Visuals

Posted: 09 May 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Nearly every one of us looks into a mirror daily. The reflective surfaces are ever-changing due to objects and people moving in front of them and then away, but we can always count on seeing a somewhat-predictable image when we approach a mirror. Paulo J. Futre‘s mirrors, on the other hand, are anything but predictable.

Futre begins with a glass canvas and, rather than adding the reflective backing that makes a conventional mirror, he splashes the glass with a reflective paint. This invents unpredictable forms and shapes on the glass, in a way creating a mirror that is a painting. Or is that a painting that also happens to be a mirror?

The result of standing before one of these pieces can be surprising. We see a disjointed version of ourselves, one that perhaps reflects a conflicted inner human nature. The image is vague and incomplete because not every part of the picture is reflected.

According to Futre, the person standing in front of one of his Liquid Mirror Paintings is an important part of the artwork – but not the final part. The final piece of this sometimes-reflective, sometimes-transparent piece of art is the photographs and videos that capture that dialogue between the object and the person interacting with it.

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