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Paint on your ceiling with color LEDs

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Perhaps next time you’re to furnish your living room, you’d prefer the Lighting Design by Seo Dong-Hun. It consists of two parts, some color LEDs installed on the ceiling and a “light brush” to control them. Just as shown in the pictures, you can easily complete a shinning painting on the ceiling by turning on or off certain LEDs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Hydrofloors Create a Swimming Pool inside the room.

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The first time I looked at the Hydrofloors, I thought the thing shouldn’t exist, coz more and more people including me would go crazy! Compared with luxury swimming pools, the hidden pool created by Hydrofloors is more attractive, magnificent and of course more expensive. Whenever you’d like to swim, you can easily make the floors sink into the ground to a needed depth, using a control panel. Cool as that!

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Decorative Tiles

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In order to create a stylish home, for years we have been enhancing the lamps on walls, but now these smart tiles is making headway in hiding the light inside the walls while still ensuring a perfect visual effect. It works as the lampshades, giving out soft light through the patterns when you switch on the hidden bulbs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Multifunctional Tiles

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Taking the tiles to a new altitude, Johanna Opalska has designed an innovative series of tiles that go functionally smart. You may have noticed that, apart from its regular task of decorating your home, these tiles could also serve as a vase, a lamp, a container, etc. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Decorative Panels: Innovative Alternative for Wallpapers

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Available in various patterns, these innovative panels shown here will spice up both your offices and your living rooms. Announced to have the quality of being durable, these wallpapers have no formaldehyde, totally meeting the LEED standard. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Enjoy a colorful day!

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‘Change it’— just as its name implies— is an innovative wall decoration that allows you to change its colors every minute. Each of the triangles used to make up the item has three different colors on their sides, including white, black and rainbow shade. Therefore, you can turn these triangles to form different pictures on the wall.

That’s not enough! As in the future, the designers will also use light, typography and other unique materials to take the place of colors, in order to give you more choices. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Hanging Book Cases

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Nothing would suit you better to exhibit your favorite books than the Slim Book Case. These transparent book cases are available in two versions: the Slim Version (8 slots) could hold 10-12books and the Demi Slim (4 slots) enables you to place 4-6 books. So next time decorating your office or living room, you can have a try with these Slim Book Cases and books. I bet you’ll find great pleasure with them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Creative Garage Door Stickers

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Even an ordinary garage will draw as much attention as a super star does if you decorate the garage door with these 3D stickers created by the German company StyleYourGarage. Finished in high-quality material, these garage billboards will not become deformed even they’re exposed in the sun or rain. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘Hua’ Vase Inspired by Chinese Character

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Ancient Chinese poems were always endowed with profound meaning or thought. In one famous poem, the poet told us that any beautiful flowers will finally turn into nutrition to support the next generation to bloom. And that’s just where Mike Mak has drawn the inspiration of the innovative vase-’Hua’. When filled with fresh flowers, the vase just indicates the process of blossom. But when the flowers die off, the vase then signifies that they’ve transformed into nutrition for the next blossom season. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Magazines Wall

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So what have you done with the discarded magazines? Throw them away? Oh, guys, you will regret having done that after you check out the ‘Magazines Wall’ created by Elding Oscarson. In the graphic design company located in Oktavilla, Stockholm, you’ll find a wall constructed from bundles of magazines, which gives the interior a cool and refreshing look. Do you like it? I really love it a lot! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Hand-sculpted Ceramic Vases

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I just love the look of these vases. All hand-sculptured from white stoneware clay, the Narwhal Vase, Snail Vase, White Rabbit Vase and the Angel Kitty Vase have been fired twice up to 2232 degrees before they were brought to us. Though each piece functions as a vase, these cute gadgets still doubles as an eye-pleasing sculpture when not filled with flowers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Bookwave Hanging Storage

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Now this would look good in any office or living rooms. Made from fabric and stainless steel, the Bookwave Hanging Storage is a modular unit that could be adjusted to any sizes to meet your different needs. Apart from the function of a bookcase you’ve seen from the pictures, the gadget could also be used as a curtain or a room divider. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Vertical Rainbow

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The vertical rainbow in the graph is actually shown in the Guggenheim museum in New York. It is a 120″ wide liquid curtain falling down from the building’s ceiling to the floor. It features a transparent container on the floor to collect all the stones and a ceiling container to dispense the stones. And due to the aspirator that leads the stones back up to the ceiling dispenser, a new curtain will appear in front of the visitors every 5 minutes. Illuminated by a prismatic color lamp installed on the third floor, the transparent stones will reflect the light and display the appearance of a rainbow as they drop down. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘Becherlicht’ by Martin Neuhaus

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Martin Neuhaus has just come up with ‘Becherlicht’ , a floor lamp that also doubles as a wall ornament. Different from other lamps, ‘Becherlicht’ features a bulb outside of the lampshade, and therefore creates a three-dimensional shadow onto the wall when turned on. Just as you can see from the pictures, it is the colorful shadows of the lampshade that makes the wall look beautiful. Another simple but impressive product. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Soap Light

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Hey, watch out! That soap is not for washing your hands, but for decorating your rooms. It is a portable Soap Light, coming with a charger base disguised as a soap dish. The creative home furnishing also features a touch interface, which allows you to switch the light on/off by touching the soap and change its brightness by rubbing the bar.

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