Man Made DIY

U.K.-based designer Regan Appleton came up with this brilliant idea while a student at the Royal College of Art.  

ManMade reader William an I have a lot in coming: a love for crafting with power tools, a desire to reuse and repurpose scrap, and the desire to enjoy the trappings of classic "masculine" things like the mounted deer head, without, you know, having to kill… read more

Part of my modus operandi on ManMade is playing with those iconic, and often stereotypical, images associated with men, masculine decor, and craftsmanship. Certainly, taxidermy goes in that category, and I did my own spin with a faux bois deer head silhouette project last… read more

Inspired by a conversation with a close friend, who maintains that no masculine decor is complete without a) wood, and b) taxidermy, I decided I did indeed want a mounted deer head in my space. But I like making stuff, and to be honest, I'm not really keen on all the steps that go into actually making my own mounted ten-point bust...namely, killing a deer and stuffing it.

So, I… read more