Land+Living: The Coffee Table

Furniture — February 7, 2005 Posted by Anthony

Illuminated furniture and off-grid living

We frequently browse our site logs to see where our site traffic is coming from and recently noticed a few referrals from GlenHunter.ca. After checking out the site, one of the first things that caught my eye was his handmade coffee table. It features a cedar slab with a light running in the middle along the length of the cedar that illuminates a glass shelf below. It is quite an attractive table.

"I've been toying with the concept of lighted furniture for a while now. I like the idea of creating small discreet sources of low light scattered around a room and using point sources where more illumination is needed (i.e. for reading). One method of doing that is embedding lights within furniture. In the case of this table the light is provided by two 1W LED's. It shines both up and down. The light up is very pretty, but not particularly useful (you can't read by it). The light down illuminates the bottom shelf, in our case the home of our stack of current magazines."

Another cool thing on his site is the house he's ~~building~~ built. It's an "off-grid passive solar home" and from the plans and pictures on his site, it's looks fantastic. Definitely lots more to see here. Cool dogs, too :-)

Link: Glen Hunter
Link: Hunter House, Scott Morris Architects

Update: Check out MocoLoco's coverage of the Hunter House.

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