Decor Tips - The Mechanical Art

Combining Open Shelving With Books, Artifacts, and Instruments – A Curation Guide

There is a kind of shelf that tells you nothing. Books line up because they had nowhere else to go. […]

Before industrial shelving became something people searched for online, before it appeared in apartments with exposed brick and warm Edison

A Steampunk shelf can fail even when every object on it is beautiful. That is the strange part. You can

New pipe hardware has one problem: it looks new. Too clean, too even, too obedient. The black surface has no

The bracket gets the attention first. Of course it does. Black iron against brick.A flange pressed flat to the wall.A

A pipe shelf looks simple from across the room: a plank of wood, two or three black iron brackets, a

A Steampunk shelf fails in two ways: sometimes it is empty in the wrong places, and sometimes it is full

Before the industrial shelf became iron pipe, black brackets, reclaimed planks, and wall-mounted display systems, it had a quieter ancestor.

The Renter’s Dilemma – Building Atmosphere in a Place You Don’t Own The hardest part about building a Steampunk room

There is a moment in almost every Steampunk room build when the mistake quietly happens. Someone chooses the sconce first.