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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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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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Although LED technology has already been widely used in our daily life, there’re still some LED related products we seldom know or use, and one on that list is rightly the LED Light Strips. It is thin and waterproof, ideal for both indoors and outdoors use, capable of serving as night lights or decorative lights. According to your needs, you may cut the strips into various sizes as well.

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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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Before the Shoe Tree Tulips came to us, we merely know that a shoe rack is something to store and keep shoes, however we now realize that a shoe rack should also be something to display our shoes, especially those beautiful and delicate ones.

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Your favorite books, your favorite designs, your favorite furniture…Any of your paper books can be sorted by this Check Bookshelf designed by Jongho Park.

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Yes, here comes the dark night, but the sun has never gone away: actually the sunshine is turned into warm and beautiful light, to decorate your room and to brighten up your night.

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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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Made from powder-coated, bent steel, the X Hanger designed by Kfir Schwalb is merely a single piece while can function to hang your hats, coats, scarves and other items. When not in use, the X Hanger can serve as a unique decoration on the wall too, refreshing your room with a new look.

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As there is extremely limited space for designing and decorating in our houses, we may avert our eyes onto the ground or even under the floor… Thus these spiral wine cellars are created. Available in several patterns, the Spiral Cellar can be built anywhere you’d like, from your kitchen to your office, and other places. To ensure the cellar an optimum temperature for wine, the Spiral Cellar also uses the company’s air flow system with the earth’s natural surroundings to provide insulation. Basically one cellar can store up to 1,900 bottles of wine, and the price may vary depending on your needs.

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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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3D Cabinet created by cleverly arranging bright yellow color and plain black color… Quite simple concept, but really amazing art.

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While human’s love for light resulted in the invention of bulbs and lamps, Calabarte’s love for beautiful light art has brought us these amazing lamps made out of hollowed and dried skin of the gourd fruit. They seem bit of ordinary when not turned on, but really fabulous (exactly, beyond the words) as the light comes out of them. Sold? We don’t know but we all hope it is launched to the market so that we could get the best gift for the Christmas.

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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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