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Posts tagged “camouflage”

How to Hide Thermostats and Door Buzzers

Now this is brilliant. How many of you are living in rentals where your landlord decided to ruin a perfectly good wall with a thermostat smack dab in the middle of it? Our thermostat and door buzzer,...

Stealth Tech Tricks: 5 Ways to Hide Your Wireless Router

If you have the luxury of more than one cable or phone line around the house, that means you have options for router camo. Because who likes looking at detracting flashing lights during a movie night,...

How to... Paint a Ceiling Speaker Grill

So you're finally the proud owner of a home and you're ready to set up the most rocking home theater that anyone on the block has ever seen. You've installed an enormous pull-down projector screen and...

Look! DIY Speakers Hidden in Real Books!

There's something a little puzzling about this messy and less-than-chic bookshelf—and it's not "Why in the world does this person own and display a lava lamp?" No, the head-scratcher is "Where t...

Camouflaged Cables

If you can't beat 'em, join em. With wireless power nowhere to be seen, we are not left with many power cord options. Try your best to hide them or learn to deal with seeing them snake around your des...

In Case You Missed It: Kelly's Hide and Seek Television

Today's AT Daily email from Maxwell looks at Kelly Geisen's inspired television hutch inside a model fireplace she built herself. That's right. Before there was just a flat wall, but Kelly found an o...

A Curiously Strong DIY Project... Do You See It?

If you were scrolling down the page just now, looking at the pictures to see what catches your eye but not really reading the words, then you must have bad breath or just be a fan of really minty mint...

How To: Camouflage Your Wii Sensor Bar

Honestly we didn't think that the Wii sensor bar, the thin bar that you probably put on top of your TV to read your Wii-motes' signals, was ever a mess to hide. Nintendo did a pretty good job of makin...