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Directly or sideways, actually you can decide the way your wall (or wallpaper) looks at you, simply by drawing different kinds of eyes on them.

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You know what? You’ve gotten too many bottles of wine on the rack that it finally breaks into pieces… That sounds bit of weird? Well, it’s in fact an interesting trick put forward by designer James Hopkins. Made of wood and bottles, the shelf here is no doubt the best decorations that would surprise everybody!

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Yes, yes, my house is very charming, with bright white walls, good-colored floors, well-designed furniture, and Rooftop Ceiling Lights!! Though the ceilings used to be easily ignored by people, they will never act that way anymore, after Hamburg and Berlin based company Lightboys have brought us with these delicately-designed ceiling lights. They’re clever combinations of large format photographs and common ceiling lights, each featuring a classical domed roof to add some romance to your houses.

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Utilizing a photochromic screen-print composition, designer Solenne Morigeaud has constructed the “Hide-and-seek with the Missing” floor that will reveal a vivid color palette whenever exposed to UV light. By designing such a color-changing floor, Solenne aims to bring the public with the awareness of many floral species extinction threat, as well as to inform them the importance of preservation of nature.

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White, square, square, white, why is every outlet so similar to others? Can’t they have their own personalities?  Of course they could, with the aid of these stickers. Printed on glossy vinyl, you can combine them in any number of ways to give your outlets an attractive look.

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While more and more wallpaper designs are pursuing brilliant patterns and luxurious colors, Young & Battaglia’s wallpapers are striving to bring us back to a pure and simple world. These wallpapers, available in “stone angels”, “bookshelves” and other patterns, each features light color and simple designs, to make you feel that you’re rightly surrounded by Renaissance-style angels carved in stone or hundreds of books.

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Chemistry and art are two separate words that seemingly would never have any connections, but designer Pani Jurek’s “Maria S.C. Lamp” has now brought them together. Looking like a crystal chandelier, the lamp is actually made from chemistry test tubes placed into circular plywood bands. It seems completely nice when without anything in the tubes, but the result becomes more amazing when each tube is filled with colored liquid or inserted with flowers.

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What is the function of a vase? When asking that question again and again, designer Giorgia Zanellato discovered that too many vase designs nowadays focus on the appearances of the vases too much while seldom displaying flowers well enough.  Giorgia wants to change the trend, and thus puts forward the Narciso, a series of vases made in borosilicate glass, powder-coated aluminum and mirrored stainless steel to change a simple flower or stem into a complex kaleidoscope effect. These designs have succeeded, cleverly drawing our attention to the flowers, even without letting us notice the change.

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A house never blocks you away from the nature, coz the nature is rightly inside your house! Especially designed for kids who love playing in a sweet environment surrounded by green trees, the unique bedroom is decorated with swings, climbing ropes, tree paintings and a folding table that can transform into magnetic chalkboard. That’s so great, for both the kids and the adults, actually.

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What else can the belts do for you, except for tightening your trousers? London-based designer Inghua Ting offers us an interesting but really amazing answer: the old belts could decorate your table tops, walls and floors, in forms of 12- and 18-inch square belt tiles. You got this? It’s truly practical idea to recycle your used tiles.

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2D or 3D, currently almost all designs are seemingly to face that question. But actually it’s not that difficult to make a decision, because one could become both 2D and 3D at the same time. The Keyboard Wall is rightly a good example. It’s constructed with thousands of keys collected from old computer keyboards, creating a 2D image when you view them from the front while offering 3D pleasure as well since you can feel their unique shapes.

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How could we bring a new life into our house? According to Philip Watts Design, we should firstly install the house with a spine, or more exactly a spin-shaped staircase… So what do you think?

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Using an old marbling technique, Pernille Snedker Hansen of Snedker°Studio has created a new series of flooring wood with rich colors, variable lines and elegant shapes. Compared with traditional floor woods, the semi-psychedelic flooring seems more brightly colored, thus to give your rooms a refreshing look. Moreover, it may be quite romantic to have such floor woods decorate our home, as each time we lower our heads, we would feel that the rainbows are rightly before our eyes.

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Psalt Design must be kidding us, because the new fish bowl now brought to us is so soft that it may be slipping off the tables… Never safe for the fish! But we’re all wrong, as the bowl is actually made to be solid, with a weird corner on its bottom, which makes it quite unique among all those fish bowls with a flat bottom. Definitely I’ll get my fish such an interesting new house, if I had ever raised some fish.

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Made of hand-blown glass in Turkey, this Fishscape Fishbowl features a unique interior that evoks the feel of a mountain range. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Need to face your books everyday? If so, why not store them on this Face Shelving system? As you place your books onto different locations of the shelf, you can create different faces that would make you smile. Just have a try. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Today we’re loving this Weed Shelving, Sergey Saava’s creative work that is shaped like weed and brings into one’s living room with the nature’s fresh air. Moreover, the Weed Shelving features a unique construction that allows the users to expand the shelving to any length they may need. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Somebody hates mosses while someone loves them so much that they even specially design, produce and finally lay such unique tiles to let moss grow in the cracks. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What, do you think, is the main reason that makes us different and unique among hundreds and thousands of people on the earth? There’re many possible answers, such as the way we dress, we work, we live or we decorate our houses… You see, with these Pixel Perfect Cameras on the wall, your guest then realize you have a distinctive taste of home decoration. [Read the rest of this entry...]

One rarely mentioned reason why we prefer wood floors is that we love the nature and we believe wood floors are natural. But quite ironically, common floor’s straight edges have undermined their beauty of nature. Instead, natural floors are expected to be like Bolefloor- with beautifully natural edges while still ensures a good durability. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Inventionland, America’s largest invention factory, is a famous studio especially built for working out creative ideas. Every year it comes up with 2,000-2,400 new inventions and drives the world forward on with its innovative spirit. But how could Inventionland be so creative? Somebody finds a possible answer from Inventionland’s unique offices. Now let’s go and start our tour in Inventionland offices. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Steve Kuhl is absolutely a greatest father, because he has built so spectacular a bedroom for kids that almost every adult would dream to get it. The theme for this bedroom is “pirate ship”, and walking through it you’ll see walls painted with colors of the sea, a ship, and a rope bridge that connects the ship to the top of a jail cell. Thus it is a real kids’ house, a bedroom for them to live in, study in and also play in. Brilliant! [Read the rest of this entry...]

How could one make a white living room into a magnificent room within only a few seconds? The answer may be quite clear: he needs to use magic or this unique physical 3D video mapping technology created by Mr. Bram. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Guru celebrated the Valentine’s Day in quite a unique way: it asked 11 artists to design several interesting T-shirts and showcased them on February 14th. Thus on that day, you’ll see T-shirts fitted into picture frames if you walk into the shop, and with such special designs, T-shirts are not merely clothes but also part of art. [Read the rest of this entry...]

IVY is designed to grow inside your rooms, just like trees grow outside your apartment. More exactly, it is a shelving system that consists of three branch-like modular pieces, changing its shape to live in various environments. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Driving carpet designs to a new level, Lama Concept has built some LED lights into 100% wool carpet. When they’re turned on in the nights, these lights’ shinning and romantic light will make both your carpet and room quite attractive. As all these LEDs are embedded in decorative knots, they wouldn’t destroy the entire beauty of your carpet even when they cannot work. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Those who really love animals are quite willing to share everything they have with the naughty little guys. Recently an England-based designer has rebuilt the house with suspending bars, holes and other unique facilities, making it a house also suitable for cats. With so many convenient accesses and entertainment facilities, the cats now can enjoy a more pleasant life. [Read the rest of this entry...]

War and peace, violence and non-violence, except for those there’re also many other words opposing in meanings, such as flowers and bombs. Designed by Biaugust, the Bomb Vase shows us the cruelty of war in a new way: bombs destroy flowers, nature and lives. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The love for beauty is a nature not only of all human beings but also of some lamps. With delicate dresses and coats on, these floor lamps seem really cool on the paper and we bet they’ll certainly give your rooms a refreshing look. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Colorful LED lights have given the US map a new look and actually they’re used to highlight your travels within America. Beautifully framed, the Lighted LED US can effectively interact with the users, allowing them to easily find out how many cities they’ve been to. Really intuitive but pity that we don’t have a LED world map at the present. [Read the rest of this entry...]

When most people are still immersed in the joy of Halloween, some guys have already started to get something more wonderful for the oncoming Christmas. So here we’d like to show you several Christmas ornaments and hopefully they would help to create an unforgettable festival too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Despite that we’re growing a little older year by year, we can still live a happy life with childish delight. So never say these Clouds and Umbrellas are especially designed for kids, coz they’re actually also made for the adults. Just wish everybody always to be in a good mood. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is always difficult for you to find out the needed books among various ones on the shelf? Then try the AAKKOSET Bookcase designed by Kayiwa. It comes with a series of shelves that are shaped like alphabet A, B, C and others so as to guide you to the books quickly. If you don’t have that much books to exhibit, you can also use AAKKOSET as a room divider and it performs just as good as other decorative dividers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Just like people stand in various poses before taking the pictures, the flowers also come in different poses to give your rooms a new look. So great! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Slicker and interesting to look at, these jet sets wouldn’t take anything away from you but will always fly on the walls of your living rooms. If only the jet shelves would be sold at a lower price then I may get more to build an airport on my wall! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Nothing would be better than seeing some green plants in the desert, which may bring back vitality and power to us. And we hope you’ll still feel good to see a desert inside your home, which is however built in an apple or pear shaped terrariums. Combining two things that are irrelevant to each other, the designer of the Air Plant Terrariums has led us to another way to view the desert and to decorate our homes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Since your bathroom also needs some decoration, why not just build a wall for pictures using the Photo Shower Curtain? It has 40 5″ x 7″ pockets to hold photos, postcards and artworks, so the curtain will surely look as fantastic as a mini art show. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Many people love clouds because they’re white, clean and they change constantly to show us new beauty. The designers also love cloud, so they’ve created Cloud Chair, Cloud Umbrella, Cloud Meeting Room and the cute Cloud Shelves. Prefect for blue walls! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Seasons change as the time passes, so every year we begin with the spring that is full of green leaves and harvest in the autumn when yellow leaves fly in the air. But with the “leaf carpet” in your home, you can simply turn the carpet to feel the two different seasons whenever you want. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Kind of like a topographic map, the carpet designed by Laurens van Wieringen was constructed from hundreds of foam bars that vary in colors and heights. The designer has worked together with 29 of her friends to finish the pixel 3D carpet, and hence we can see a new interior decor design here today. [Read the rest of this entry...]