ReadyMade is a bimonthly magazine featuring articles about home design, furniture and inexpensive ways to create great things for the home.

Here’s what they say: “ReadyMade is a bimonthly print magazine for people who like to make stuff, who see the flicker of invention in everyday objects — the perfectly round yolk in the mundane egg.”

I just recently subscribed to the magazine and I have to say it is well worth the money.  I did order my subscription off of eBay though.  And I got a 3 yr subscription for just $12.  If you like to make you house look good on the cheap then this mag will serve you well. Enjoy.

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As a token of our appreciation to all of our readers out there, we have decided to have a little giveaway, starting today. What are we giving away you ask? The lucky winner will receive a $20 Target gift card! Ok, so what are the rules? Well it’s pretty simple and you have a few options. First by simply commenting on this post, you will get 1 entry into the drawing, secondly, signing up for our email newsletter you will receive 3 entries into the drawing, and the final method to enter, for 5 entries, is by writing about this contest on your own blog and linking here to the official contest post. All blog entries must email me at coolestfurniture (at) gmail.com with a link to your official post, so I can enter you into the contest. All entries will be put in a hat and one will be picked at random. Also only new email newsletter subscribers will be eligible for entry, if you are already subscribed, then just leave a comment, it’s that easy! The winner will be announced next Friday, January 25^th. Good Luck.

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IKEA products are identified by single word names, it founder Ingvar Kamprad, who is dyslexic found that naming the furniture with proper names and words, rather than a product code, made the names easier to remember. Most of the names are either Swedish, Danish, Finnish or Norwegian in origin. Although there are some notable exceptions names are based on a special naming system developed by IKEA.

Upholstered furniture, coffee tables, rattan furniture, bookshelves, media storage, doorknobs: Swedish place names.

Beds, wardrobes, hall furniture: Norwegian place names.

Dining tables and chairs: Finnish place names.

Bookcase ranges: Occupations.

Bathroom Articles: Scandinavian lakes, rivers and bays.

Kitchens: Grammatical terms, sometimes also other names.

Chairs, desks: Men’s names.

Materials, curtains: Women’s names.

Garden furniture: Swedish islands.

Carpets: Danish place names.

Lighting: Terms for music, chemistry, meteorology, measures, weights, seasons, months, days, boats, nautical terms.

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Moto Art is a company from California that takes old airplane parts and reworks them into great new pieces of functional art. They started in 1998 and have been creating specialty pieces ever since. “The rescue of these marvelous engineering components from yesteryear gives much joy as well as a feeling of being a small part of the great art of aviation.” says the head artist of Moto Art Donovan Fell. As you can see by the photos their creations are not only beautiful, but they are also completely functional. These are definitely some of the coolest pieces of recycled art/furniture I have seen.

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