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Hot or Not? Vintage Tea Cart Holds a Flat Screen Steady

We just can't get enough of wheeled carts. We've talked in the past of how to use wheeled carts to hide modems and routers, store office accessories, and hold gaming peripherals. How could we forget ...

Check Out Julie's Jubilant Loft

There's a delightfully fun house tour today on Apartment Therapy that playfully illustrates integrating tech into an eclectic environment; the Philly home intersperses modern elements (including an HD...

How To Deck Out an Old Record Cabinet

Friday marked the last day of our Home Hack month, but there's plenty of great ideas to revisit or catch up with in our archives, like this great rehab of a vintage record cabinet with an awesome new ...

Flickr Finds: A Desk Inside a Submarine!

Sure, it's got a typewriter front-and-center instead of an iMac, but this cold-war-era submarine storage and writing desk is still a sight to behold. Apparently the 'industrial' look has been en vogu...

How To Fix (Almost) Any Set of Audio Speakers 3
Home Hacks

Are you ready to rock, Unplggd readers? Do you want to save your hard earned dolla bills? Welcome to the third and final week of our easy vintage (or just plain old) speaker resurrection. Be sure yo...

Ghosty Wall Lamp Completes Your Pac Man Wall

From the design firm that brought you the oversized-pac-man bookshelf comes these ghost-shaped lamps. As if you needed an excuse to turn your living room into a video game....

Make Notebooks from Old VHS Cases

If you've amassed quite a collection of VHS tapes over the years but are slow to purge them for nostalgia's sake, try this fun project....

Shoot your Visitors with a "Camera" Peephole

Get on board with the vintage camera trend! With this wall decal, you're able to peep and greet your visitors through the viewfinder of a classic SLR. If camera's aren't your thing, there's a telesco...

Final Frame Vintage Components Holiday Ornaments

Evil Science Scientist Laboratories showcases an inspirational series of photos showing how vintage electronics components can be used to bring some colour and tech to your yuletide decor....

Q Speakers: 360-Degree Vintage-Modern Sound

If there's a sexy lookin' piece of audio equipment out there, you know we'll be on top of it. The Q Speakers by Grier Govorko, is no exception, and easily makes our list for one of the best looking sp...

Lima De Lezando's Retro Tech Collection

Like a 1950's Packard Caribbean, Lima De Lezando's deliciously vintage home audio pieces, including a stereo cabinet and megaphone-like speakers, which remind us of the beauty of sweet mid-century des...

Final Frame: A Vintage Beauty

A real looker...and the lady in pink ain't half bad herself....

Polaroid Flower Vase With A Built-In Spotlight

Ah, the iconic shape of vintage Polaroid photo film shows up again in high-design home decor! Take a cue from Apartment Therapy San Francisco and bring some green indoors for the winter with this Pola...

Mac Fits Right In with MonoChrome Kitchen

No matter which side you're on in the computers-in-the-kitchen debate, you can't argue that this Mac laptop looks right at home in this retro-modern monochrome home....

Final Frame Before the Roomba...

...there was the RCA Whirlpool Miracle Kitchen, complete with Roomba-like robotic floor cleaning. Watch a video of it in action below....

Chair from an Old TV?

Why go 'out with the old,' like the old saying says? You could just take the old, knock its screen out and add some shag carpeting... now you've stuck with the old, turning it into something new that ...

Husqvarna Viking 3600 Sewing Machine

We've posted about newfangled sewing machines several times here at Unplggd, as a few of us work with the machines for both personal DIY and professional endeavors. But as much as we like computerized...

First Apple, Once Owned by Star Trek Creator, to be Auctioned

We can't even imagine how insane it would be to own the first ever Apple Macintosh Plus, serial number 0001. Auction House, Profiles in History, is starting the bidding wars for the historical piece ...

What's Your Longest-Lasting Appliance?

When you grab the cheapest toaster in the home good aisle, you know it's probably not going to last long. But some appliances we buy with investment in mind and the intention to keep them forever......

Retro TV Alarm Clock for a Kitschy Vintage Nightstand

There's definitely a point when kitschy turns into tacky. But in the right home, on the right nightstand, belonging to the right person... this retro TV alarm clock might just be the perfect vintage g...

Why Not... Use an Antique Fridge as a Bookshelf?

OK, this trend is officially blowing up! First we see people busting out the screens of vintage TVs for storage and then dissecting the insides of a radio for a safe keeper. Now, a fridge stays (mostl...

Inspiration: Vintage Braun Tech

When we think of the German company Braun these days, the first thing that comes to mind are their heavenly electric toothbrushes (nowadays they're known as Oral-B). But before all that, they were ren...

Flickr Finds: Beautiful Pressure Mounted Media Stand

Finding the perfect vintage piece to hold your new tech is skill. Furniture built pre- televisions, DVD players, video game systems tend not to hold the shelving, cabinets, drawers, and electrical c...

Look! Military-Grade Desk; Design Nerd Style

Having a good desk when you work from home is as important as having a good bed. Like the latter, if you're not comfortable at your desk you're going to have a really tough time getting through the d...

Try Polaroid Invites For Your Next Party

Birds of a feather really do flock together. I'm a big fan of tech that's nostalgic or vintage in a glamorous way, like a rickety typewriter, a leather-housed turntable or mid-century camera bodies. W...