Poison Labels


To continue in the imbibables theme, Robert sent me a link to these poison labels that were featured on Boing Boing.

Print them out and use them on wine bottles or lab glass!

The collection is by SpookShows.com, which also features vintage spooky-gear from the 1920s and 1930s as well as the most amazing Flickr set.

Cocktails -- Fresh from the Lab


Martha Stewart Living this month features a bevy of Halloween ideas.... this one could be adapted for any mad scientist fete.

The putrid green color? It's pureed kiwis.

Fresh from the Lab: Bubbling Cocktails

Four Foot Wide "Time Eater" Clock


Our friend Rafael Fabre, who blogs often about the steampunk happenings in Second Life, recently pointed out this wonderful clock. From BBC News:

Designed by John Taylor, and unveiled by Stephen Hawking, its Dubbed the strangest clock in the world, and features a giant grasshopper and has 60 slits cut into its face which light up to show the time.

Dr Taylor told the Daily Mail newspaper he decided "to turn the clock inside out... so you can see the seconds being eaten up".

"Conventional clocks with hands are boring," he said. "I wanted to make timekeeping interesting.

"I also wanted to depict that time is a destroyer - once a minute is gone you can't get it back.

"That's why my grasshopper is not a Disney character. He is a ferocious beast that over the seconds has his tongue lolling out, his jaws opening, then on the 59th second he gulps down time." Ferocious and grasshopper are not words you often hear in the same sentence, but this one looks mean enough to eat up all my spare time...

It's gold plated and battery powered -- I would have preferred they saved his money (all million pounds of it) by using brass, and designed gear based movements for it. Oh well!

Modern Living Room with 4 Elements

Modern Living Room with 4 Elements
This is a perfect modern living space that fused the four elements – earth, air, fire and water into an oasis that served as a retreat from the overload of everyday life. Within 600 square feet, It's created a space where one lives among features that are most often sacrificed in small home living. An indoor garden and candle-powered fireplace, along with a foldout wall bed create the perfect home for the modern nomad.

Modern Mediterranean Home Design

Modern Mediterranean Home Design
Modern Mediterranean Home Design
Modern Mediterranean Home DesignMediterranean home design usually used a special shape for all home component, the use of ivory color for curtain, the special shape of window and the fireplace.

Hanging Beds...


Keith sent me to an article on suspended beds which I was intrigued by. I have no clue what the history of hanging or suspended beds are -- this feels like something that would have originated in the 70s -- but with a little bit of imagination they can have a Victorian nautical flair, like the one below.


I'm not sure I'd put one inside a house, but they'd be great on a porch (as shown below). I think it would be perfect for a beach house (unfortunately the in-law's beach house that I keep decorating in my head -- my FIL so gets steampunk -- just washed away with Hurricane Ike. Sigh.)

You would think there would be instructions for building one of these on Instructables, but the closest I found was this comment by the owner of the bed below, featured on Apartment Therapy: The suspended bed on our screened-in porch. It took about a day and cost less than $100 to build. Although I confess I didn't do much of the building — my husband and brother are responsible for that. I'm sure you could figure out how to build one, however.


Some of the most charming, old fashioned looking hanging beds are for sale at Bedzz without Legzzz.



Modern Living Room with Minimalist Furniture


See the design of the chair! You now can see that the foot of the chair looks uncommon style, lower sofa and table is the trend of furniture now.

This is a 3D file, designed with the imagination of minimalist room designed.

Romantic Style Dinning Room with Simple Dinning Furniture


Those picture describing two dinning rooms with romantic style, on first picture, there are several simple black chairs with medium size white table. On the last picture, we can see a floral style of table cover, the color of table cover is similar with the cushions, a special mirror is hanging on the wall, you can buy all of these romantic dinning room's component at mydeco.

Modern Door Design from OIKOS



Designing door should considering the color of another decorations, The modern entrance door collection from Oikos, come with elegant and stunning design. This doors perfectly fit with any contemporary architectural project, expressing a young, innovative and culturally modern style. The doors from Oikos have made of fashion materials and colors of today’s furnishing, entertainment and modern living. Oikos doors are the most innovative trends of the contemporary furniture

Spiral Stairs for Modern Home

Connecting lower ground and upper ground on minimalist room should considering the use of stair's space, the most simple stairs style is spiral style, with this spiral stairs, we can reduce the space used for stairs. Spiral stairs can be placed in all modern and minimalist room design, but for reaching a best home design, we should considering about the material of the stairs for getting matched with another room decorations.

Ideas for Elegant but Simple Bathroom

Elegant but Simple BathroomIdeas for creating a bathroom not usually should designing on elegant sense, but we can also designing is simple design, with special texture overrules ornamentation we can remodeling a bathroom in simple and elegant bathroom. The smooth grain of the bath’s wood cabinets and the frosted-glass shower enclosure have a natural drama that doesn’t require excessive fixtures.

DaVinci Decoder Fountain

Cameron Harvey of Harvey Gallery shared his DaVinci Decoder Fountain:



Some have said it is an early device for deciphering the coding in the Last Supper. A few suggested that when played underwater, large whales flock to it and attempt to communicate.

I worry about linking the DaVinci Code with steampunk, but it's a lovely piece. No, the water doesn't turn the gears, but rather runs down the center of it.

Blue Teen's Bedroom Design

The young girl's bedroom must be what she, not your mature woman, calls attractive. So consult each girl in turn. Young girls as a rule like bright and spring like colors. One should feel on entering that some happy girl calls it her very own. Hangings and furniture covers can be of solid colors, pink, yellow or pale blue with dancing, frilly white sash curtains. If. Preferred, lovely chintz and cretonne to suit each style of furniture come at all prices. Blue color for teen's bedroom is one options that describing the young girls who want to be mature girl.
Young girls usually like bedroom with straight, slender lines made of some light-colored wood or painted one of the soft, silvery grays, blues or lavenders. Blush-pink is sometimes used on youthful furniture and apple-green delights young girls if you are sure to give them as curtains pink gingham, linen, or taffeta, with pure white net or scrim against the sashay apple blossom effect!

Spice Rack = Medicine Cabinet


This was a clever reuse of a neat spice rack my sister found for me at a thrift shop. My mom cleaned it up, and we thought I'd use it in the kitchen for a look similar to this kitchen. That didn't work out, so I repurposed it for a medicine cabinet in the bathroom. It looks even better right after you fill up the jars with colorful vitamins.

Gold color for interior design

Metallic gold accents reflect the current trend in both home and fashion design to showcase shiny bling, adding glamour to a casual setting. Several years a go, gold color is the trend of interior color, so, it's not impossible if this color trend will be back to be trend again.

Glass wall design for maximizing outdoor lighting

Glass wall design for maximizing outdoor lighting
Glass blocks can be used in countless ways to add natural light and beauty to all types of constructions. Glass blocks on this kitchen are used as glass wall design for maximizing outdoor lighting, these step enables you to reduce the need of lighting.
Glass wall design for maximizing outdoor lighting
See this glass as a room divider between two rooms, both of room still looks wide and can be maximized arranged. All glass wall design suitable for any modern home design such as a home office or another flexible room.
Glass wall design for maximizing outdoor lighting

Asian Home Design Style with Red Color

Popular Asian colors for home design are red, white, black and dark brown. To add an oriental feel, use some gold on red or black with red. Silver also provides a cooling accent. Chrome kitchen utensils, pots and pans will give a nice contrast. Use 3 to 4 main colors at most. You may want to use plants as well to neutralize everything. A single flower on a vase is stylish enough. Assorted fruits in a large bowl or dish also look great.
The other thing about Asian home design is the use of materials, bamboo materials are popular material for most furniture and decorations, Silk is very versatile and adds some Chinese influence into your Asian kitchen. You can buy silk with beautiful prints and hang them on the wall. Other silks preferably dark red, orange and pink can be made into table cloths, mats and coasters. Install a wooden frame over the island counter and hang white silk on it together with pots, pans and utensils.

My Mantel

Mantels are fun and easy decorating -- easy to change on a whim, relatively easy to put together. Mine currently has some of my steampunk finds, arranged in what I hope is a artistic clutter.



From right to left, an armillary sphere (I found it on clearance at Target), 3 gauges (eBay) destined for some project, an ornate candlestick picked up at a thriftstore, part of my glassware collection (more details below), a small antique brass surveyors level that used to be my Dad's, 3 more candlesticks with decorative balls on top, some natural treasures (geode, polished shell, and some fossils we've found with a steampunklet) and a framed picture as a backdrop. It all sits on a red velvet valance draped over the mantel.

Here's a closeup of my glassware, which I love for it's pseudo-scientific feel. The hourglass is from CB2, one galileo thermometer and "hand bubblers" were culled from Ben's childhood room, and the larger one I found at a thriftstore.

The last of my glass collection, which doesn't actually sit on the mantel, but rather on the stereo cabinet in the same room. Fun modern and reproduction antique chemistry equipment.

The problem with glass is that it's clear. Yes, that's traditional, but it tends to fade into the background. I've been wondering if some colored lab glass would be a good addition.

If you'd like to do your own mantlescape, it's a great place to start, and you can play with it and change it up all the time. Elements of Style has a good post on mantlescapes to get you started.

Blue Kitchen Design Ideas

Everyone who considers an Ikea kitchen wonders it the value price means they are getting an inferior product. On this picture you can see a blue kitchen design. So, you can adopt this ideas for your kitchen remodeling design.

Smart and Health Home Design with Natural Air-Barrier

Smart and Health Home Design with Natural  Air-BarrierSmart and health house is today's home design trend, it is a high performance home that is insulated with an air-barrier, open cell foam insulation. All wood-to-wood framing joints are caulked, which makes the home airtight, energy efficient, and less likely to produce mold, so, it's easy to avoid it. It includes water-saving plumbing fixtures, on-demand water heaters, and a mechanical ventilation system that is 30% more efficient than typical forced-air systems.

Bathroom Component Choice




Curtains, shower and door design for bathroom choice usually used a similar color and design, on this picture I saw you how to choice similar color for bathroom components.

Bathroom Ideas Choosing

If ideas of remodeling your current bathroom are in your mind, there are many things to consider first. Your idea of the perfect bathroom design layout should match the size of your floor plans. Ample walking space to move about is also another factor to consider. Strategic placement of the shower or bath, sink and toilet can make or break your re-design. List your flaws in your current bathroom and work from there.
A budget is also important, so from your list of things you want to change, your bank roll should dictate what needs to be accomplished first. A simple change in fixtures will cost you around 100 dollars but major remodeling of Tubs, Showers, or Tiles will involve parts, labor and sometimes reconstruction.

My Mad Scientist Lamp

I have a tendency not to share projects I work on, mostly because they are not as cool as what the more accompished steampunks do, but I was really pleased with how my Mad Scientist Lamp turned out. It now lives on Ben's bedside table and is used as an adjustable reading lamp.

Aren't those great lightbulbs?

An Iron Horse in My House

So my birthday is tomorrow, so to celebrate I decided this week would be all about my house. Egocentric? Absolutely, until you realize that you'll be seeing my fear of color (lots of white walls!), a bit of mess, and some decidedly undone bits. I hope you enjoy it anyway.


I wanted to start with this mural I've put above the bed in the master bedroom. It's a high contrast photograph called "Iron Horse" from Mr. Sable on flickr (who has a very nice collection of steampunk pictures). I had WallHogs print it into what's basically a big sticker that you apply by "burnishing" (rubbing with a straightedge). One of the nice things is that it's removable, so this technique could work for rentals or a dorm room.

I suspect it would look better with a frame of some sort, and I do wish it was larger.

Thanks to my sister, who's much better with a camera than I am, for taking this photo.

Retail Shop Interior Design by Fingo

retail room design
Designing a retail shops is a difficult job, first consideration before designing is about the style, we will need to know about the product that will be marketed on the shop, So, we need a professional company to create it, "Fingo" is a comprehensive professional all service projects company. We specialize in package service for but not limit to offices, retail shops and leisure facilities with solid experience. It has always been our objective to provide a quality service to our clients under a reasonable and competitive terms. "We put emphasis on aesthetic and give consideration to practical"