The Ultimate DIY Dance Floor

For the past eight years, Product Designer Dean DiPietro has thrown a yearly, legendary party at his loft in New York City known as The White Party. “Each year we kept getting more and more ambitious and, by the fifth year, I thought of the illuminated dance floor.” He hoped the PAL9000 (the name references both 2001: A Space Odyssey and his apartment’s nickname—The Park Avenue Lounge) invokes memories of classic club culture, making his loft feel more like Paradise Garage than a place someone actually calls home. Not only is it an excellent way to get people dancing, but it’s also an example of extreme DIY at its finest.