by Fünchkins
Sometimes the words pre-fabricated bring to mind horrible, boxy buildings that house official offices or temporary shelters. Connect Homes makes pre-fabricated homes, not only beautiful but easy to transport by using shipping containers.
By thinking out of the box, so to speak, Connect Homes has managed to have the first pre-fabricated home featured in GQ and other magazines, that’s how beautiful it is.
* You can find a list of 6 of the most beautiful pre-fabricated homes on Fast Co-Exist
The “Lock” dinner table by J.P.Meulendijks comprises of interlocking bamboo layers. These layers are flexible, very strong and highly sustainable, all unique natural characteristics of bamboo as a building material.
The bamboo layers curve through and around each other, locking each other in place and creating a different look from every angle. The table is available with a glass top, or with a stained or natural bamboo top.
* The Lock dinner table can be purchased through Plankton Station for €1950 (glass top) or €2095 (bamboo top)
If you celebrate Christmas but don’t want the whole “pine-needles-everywhere” deal, how about trying a Superstar contemporary, recyclable Christmas tree? These free standing trees are made from lightweight birch plywood that can be finished in festive green or natural finishes.
The Christmas trees are hand-crafted in California and also collapsible, which makes them easy to set up and store.
* The trees are available through Modernica for just $229 and $449 for the big trees. Free, standard shipping in the USA.
How many times have you tried to charge your smartphone and the cord got tangled or you were too embarrassed to bring out your charger because it was just too ugly for words? Have you ever wondered what impact the polyvinyl chloride has on your environment?
We have featured Chris Gilmour on Fünchkins before, when we spoke about his amazing life-sized cardboard sculptures, this year he has more sculptures that look solid enough to play, drive and stand in awe of. There is even an interview on his website where you can find out the motivation and inspiration behind his cardboard pieces.
The newest Chris Gilmour art pieces can be seen on Beautiful Decay and on the Chris Gilmour website
When your husband loves something as much as Ashley‘s husband loves playing the guitar, it would make sense that he would want to share it with his children. Steve a.k.a Mister Make It and Love It, made these brilliant cardboard guitars for his two elder kids to strum on while he got out his own guitar. With rubber bands stretched across the body and neck, these guitars make enough sound to get your kids rocking and rolling all night long.
Ashley and Steve have been generous enough to supply the templates for the guitars along with full instructions on how to make your own cardboard guitars on the Make It and Live It site
I absolutely love the idea of taking what you would normally throw away and making it into a functional piece of furniture or art in your home. So when I saw this, I was smitten! The lamp was made using discarded soda pop ring pulls, bent and manipulated to interlock with each other to frame the shade. The site is in Chinese, but the pictures are fairly easy and self explanatory.
Debuted as part of a press kit at a recent event in Europe, this digital disposable camera made from cardboard is rumoured to be going on sale in IKEA stores soon. It uses two AA batteries and can store up to 40 images in the inbuilt memory. That memory can be accessed through the USB connection that pivots out from the corner of the camera.
This eco-friendly camera can be seen on LooksFeelsWorks
Jax and Bones toys were voted Best Pet Toy by Pet Product News in 2008, and it’s obvious why. Their toys are available in a variety of animal shapes and 2 sizes plus they are made from eco-friendly and chemical free natural dyed coton and boiled wool.
The machine washable toys are available through the Jax and Bones shop
The awesome KeepCup is brightly coloured, reusable and Eco friendly. They are available in your choice of 4 standard takeaway sizes and each component, the cup, the band, the lid and the plug, comes in a range of colours from black to violet.
The KeepCups are sold through the KeepCup store for between $10 and $16
