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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,...

Spore Modern Doorbells Bring LED to the Doorstep

Over at Apartment Therapy New York, Aaron has a cool round up of modern doorbells with a bit of LED lighting integrated into the design that gives the house chiming systems a splash of colour and make...

Final Frame: Visitor Stats Doorbell

Love Dominic Wilcox's Doorbell concept with a visitor stats display, even if it's just meant as a joke....

Nintendo Controller Morphs Into Doorbell

OMG! We need this. We NEEEEEEED it. One very creative DIYer retrofitted an old school NES controller to be a doorbell. Once any button on the controller is pressed it sends a signal to the wireless ...

Concept: Download Your Own Chime Doorbell

Inspired by percussion, Mike Skene's DoorBell Project is made of 13 hand tuned aluminum chimes housed in a sycamore frame. Using an application like iTunes, you can download new ring tones directly t...

Bryan's DIY Antique Phone Doorbell

Bryan Zimmer emailed us this fantastic retro-themed DIY hack, a most timely submission as we just revisited the noir art deco-science fiction classic Dark City and we think this would have perfectly f...

How To... Rig a Custom Doorbell "Dingtone"

If you're sick of hearing your doorbell ring, followed by your dog barking of course, you don't have very many options. You can buy a custom doorbell ringer which lets you choose from a handful of one...

Enter: A Keyboard Key and Now a Doorbell

The doorbell is no longer a device to be ignored. Plenty of designers are creating gorgeous doorbells that make us want to take on a home improvement project to replace our little white dot. First the...

Doorbells: An Often Overlooked Part of Home Decor

When we think about a doorbell, our minds turn to the finger-sized button placed, in perfect form, right next to our front door. If you’re a not a design stickler, you’ve probably left it well eno...

Look! A Doorbell for Winos

Ah the doorbell, so little has been done to upgrade you since your invention by Joseph Henry in 1831. Your chimes tend to be startling, and occasionally annoying, your presence is all but hidden, yet ...