The Steampunk Home

I believe that Steampunk is more than just brass and watchparts. It's finding a way to combine the past and the future in an aesthetic pleasing yet still punkish way. It's living a life that looks old-fashioned, yet speaks to the future. It's taking the detritus of our modern technological society and remaking it into useful things. Join me as I search for items for my house that combine the scientific romanticism of the Victorians with our real present and imagined future.

Monday, April 30, 2007

Inspiration: The Diamond Age

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...he glanced through to door to Gwendolyn's closet and out the other side into her boudoir. Against that room's far windows was th...
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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Hidden Technology

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In many steampunk novels, technology is both ubiquitus and unnoticeable. Nanotechnology means many advances are done at a molecular level. ...
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Friday, April 27, 2007

Spotlight your Ray Guns

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I've been oogling the West Magoon rayguns posted by Tinkergirl over at Brass Goggles , so may I suggest this Brass Halogen Picture Light...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Convex Mirror

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The Victoria Hagan® Andover Mirror at Target has a convex curvature that gently distorts the image in a carnivalesque way, will still maint...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The SteamPunk Table: Tea Light Holders

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Tea Light Holders made from Bicycle Cogs
Monday, April 23, 2007

beautiful way to keep your drinks from marring your furniture

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Circuitboards are a bit passe, in the steampunk world. These coasters , however, combine a truly useful function (protecting all that lovel...
Sunday, April 22, 2007

Clock.

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May I present an old fashioned pendulm clock made of recycled bicycle gears? Ideal hung in an office or a library. Bicycle Chainring and Co...
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