Coffee tables often feel like an afterthought. They are heavy, bulky pieces that sit in the middle of the room, often without much personality. But what if your coffee table could double as a ...

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Having a coffee table doesn't just complete the aesthetic look of your living room, but it often serves important functions. It's a place for a cup of coffee (or tea or wine), the TV remote, magazines ...

One foggy Saturday afternoon I found myself looking critically at the house, as if seeing for the first time in months all the niggling tasks that lay in wait: walls to paint, floors to scrub, laundry ...

David and his wife, Im, made the coffee table when they were both studying architecture in college. "There was another class that made a large group model from corrugated cardboard," David recalls.

If you're looking for a creative use of a Raspberry Pi, or maybe just want to get your retro game on, this DIY coffee table arcade machine is perfect for you. You'll need some supplies, but ...

There are no tools required to complete this DIY. There are no difficult steps, no instructions to follow at all, in fact, but by the end of it you will have made a cool piece of furniture entirely by ...

If you have limited space in your apartment, you can save some space by making a coffee table that converts to a high dining table when you actually need it. DIYer Noëlle used a Vika Amon tabletop ...

Don’t chuck away those old PC parts just yet! Any old hardware you may have lying around could be transformed into geeky furniture–just like Chris Harrison’s coffee table made from old motherboards.