Most people think adding a room onto your house automatically means spending tens of thousands of dollars. But with some planning, a little creativity, and a lot of hard work, that’s not always the case. We’re turning this back porch into a brand-new living room, and one of the biggest ways we’re cutting costs is by repurposing windows from a renovation project instead of buying brand-new ones. Today we’re in the framing stage—the part that lays the foundation for everything that comes next. Fol

Chinese Glass Lampwork is a delicate high-temperature handmade craft and traditional oriental glass art with a long heritage. Different from traditional heavy casting glass techniques, lampwork relies on precise flame temperature control to shape glass at molten state, featuring flexible modeling, rich colors and exquisite details. This craft takes natural quartz sand, soda ash and limestone as the basic glass substrate. Precious metal oxides including cobalt, copper, iron and manganese are adde

☀️🧡 A solar-powered heated blanket designed by a Glasgow schoolgirl to help people experiencing homelessness is set to go into wider production. Rebecca Young, now 13, came up with the idea after seeing people sleeping rough on the streets of Glasgow. She first designed the blanket as part of the UK Primary Engineer MacRobert Medal competition, which attracted more than 70,000 entries from across the UK. After Rebecca won the competition, engineers at Thales Group turned her idea into a working