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.

Designer: Lightboys

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.

Designer: Young & Battaglia

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.

Selling Price: $17.99

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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.

Designer: Pani Jurek

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.

Selling Price: 199Euros

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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.

Designer: Jongho Park

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.

Designer: Helmut Smits

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.

Designer: Giorgia Zanellato

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.

Designer: Kfir Schwalb

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.

Designer: Inghua Ting

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

Designer: Charles Kalpakian

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.

Designer: Calabarte

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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.

Designer: Sarah Frost

Klaffi Shelf is an ideal shelving device for small apartment. Designed by Finnish Eeva Lithovius, the shelf takes up space only when open; when not in use, you can simply fold it up and lay it flat against the wall.

Designer: Eeva Lithovius

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?

Designer: Philip Watts Design

Smart and cute, these electrical outlets not only feature an outstanding appearance, but also come with new functions: their little “arms” can be used to hang your plugs until they’re in use again.

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.

Designer: Snedker°Studio

Coffee shakes you up and wakes you up in the morning? Then why not let a coffee machine to give your home a refreshing look too? You know what I’m saying about, coz the new coffee machine designed by Song Ah Lee is rightly something that meets both you and your house’s needs. It can be built on the wall, offering a cup of coffee when you need it and acting as a modern decoration when not in use.

Designer: Song Ah Lee

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This white “tablecloth” is a new piece of furniture launched by German architectural studio Graft Architects. It breaks out the tradition that tables should come with several legs, and instead utilizes a tablecloth to reimage the table. The result turns to be really good, as the new table not only features the sense of beauty, but also solid and stable to ensure a long-term use.

Designer: Graft Architects

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.

Designer: Psalt Design

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

Designer: Aruliden

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.

Designer: Alexi Mccarthy

Like any sweet and fragrant roses, the “Tenderly” chair designed by Carla Tolomeo are blooming in your room, to add beauty, to add freshness. It is available in a range of colors, while produced with a limited edition of only 300 pieces.

Designer: Carla Tolomeo

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.

Designer: Sergey Saava

Yaps these shelves look very ordinary when you view them from the front, but they’re indeed creative as you may find them sections of human face when viewing them from sides.

Finished in 10mm with Poplar plywood.

Designer: Samal Design

Here is not a bullfight in Spain, but what you’ve seen is indeed something related to that famous event in the world. The metal napkin holder features a matador on one side and a raging bull on the other so that it will show us the bullfighting when red napkin is inserted into the holder.

Selling Price: $27.99

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Artist Kelly Lamb’s Skull Chandelier is a hanging light that comes with a special shape of a human skull. To make such a light, you first need to hang some tiny lightbulbs from the ceiling and then arrange them into the shape of a skull. Cool, and we bet the chandelier will appear to be more fantastic when it shines in the dark.

Designer: Kelly Lamb

Mirrors melting off the walls? How incredible a concept! Designed by Rikako Nagashim and Hideto Hyoudou, these new mirrors are different from conventional square or round ones, but feature a seemingly changeable shape as that of moving water. With them as decorations for your houses, we bet you’ll soon meet more applaud than you can ever imagine.

Designer: Rikako Nagashim & Hideto Hyoudou

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.

Designer: IVANKA

Are there any methods, except for refreshing their appearances or changing their functionalities, which can bring us new unique lamps? Nodded with yes, London designer Roger Arquer has put forward the Touch Lamp Vase that is switched on/off by touching flowers in the adjoining vase. But why could it do that?

According to the designer, high content of water on the flowers w make their sterns conductive and sensitive when touched and as a result the light would turn on or off then. But as the electricity runs on merely 12V, it can be completely safe for use.

Designer: Roger Arquer Studio

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.

Designer: Billy Brown

Selling Price: $35.95

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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.

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Commonly we see cartoonists use a lightbulb to present an idea or a thought rushing into the mind, but here we’ll see Solovyovdesign’s new bulbs in the same shape of your brain. They may look bit of weird, but we do hope your brains can create innovative ideas everyday just as the bulb lights up everyday.

Designer: Solovyovdesign

Tabisso furniture spells out your words! The collection includes chairs, lamps, and other types of furniture, and they’re shaped in any letters from A to Z and any numbers from 0 to 9. As a result you could use furniture to spell out anything you want. Fantastic!

Designer: Tabisso

Well, well, obviously you’ve got some mails… not from I New Idea or any of your buddies but from yourselves. Showcased on IFFS /AFS Singapore furniture fair 2011, this “you’ve got mail!” is an innovative shelf designed Nur Sabeela Binte Adbul Karim. With such a design, this young graduate from Lasalle College of the Arts aims to change the way we arrange our items by offering a cleverer alternative of these steel envelops. So do you love them too?

Designer: Nur Sabeela Binte Adbul Karim for IFFS/AFS 2011

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.

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Ever had any difficulty to find out which switch is controlling which light? Never mind, as you can easily solve that problem with Taewon Hwang’s Floor Plan Light Switch. It features several switches installed on one same panel so that you could control the lights in different rooms from one location. As long as you know where each room is located, you’ll always find the right button to illustrate that room.

Designer: Taewon Hwang

The market barely provides ideal lamps essential for modern lifestyle, giving rooms a romantic or hip-hop look. Addressing that issue, someone has come up with these Modular Lights-something that can be reassembled to meet your particular needs.

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.

Using two projectors, everyone can add unique colors, patterns, furniture and other items into a white room and therefore change it into a 360° projection area. Isn’t that cool? Because that’s actually the cheapest way we’ve ever found to own a new room!

Designer: Mr. Bram

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.

Designer: Cría Cuervos    Shop: Guru

This particular lamp is named as the “LED Rope.” It’s designed by Christian Haas to bring light into your environment and features a fabulously cunning combination of advanced LED lights with cute textile knots.

Designer: Christian Haas

Javier Senosiain’s Shell House must have been the envy of all their neighbors, friends, and you guys in front of the screen. The building is designed with a shell shape, decorated with colorful glass, equipped with pleasant light and filled with green plants. So whenever you view it from the outside or walk through the interior, you’ll always find a wonderful combination of nature beauty and architecture art.

Designer: Javier Senosiain

Each of the Balloon Lights designed by Uli Budde for Veritgo Bird is composed of a built-in LED, giving out soft and warm light when in use. But what makes them really charming is the balloon shape, and that endows these lights with a cute look.

KAWS has recently launched a limited edition of 1000 sets of bulbs, all of which feature a “XX” pattern. Each set contains three bulbs in various colors, including red, purple and green.

Selling Price: $65

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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.

Designer: Paris Lowitz

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.

Designer: Lama Concept

Hi, I’m a tea bag, but bit of different from conventional ones you’ve ever met. Because I can illuminate your night! My body is made from recyclable materials and I’m endowed with the ability to absorb the sunlight during the daytime. So with me, you’ll save much energy and money, doesn’t that sound great? Just get me home and I’ll be a good companion to you.

Designer: Bryan and Anke

In 1945 the first atom bomb was set off over Hiroshima and 65years later the first coat rack made to memorize the atomic bombings of Hiroshima becomes quite popular on the internet.

The design mainly consists of two parts, a red balloon and a bomb. The balloon is so powerful that it can not only keep the bomb from falling but hold your coats and hats. So for either decoration or the peace, you’ll need the “Hiroshima”.

Designer: Mehmet Erdi Özgürlük & Anıl Ercan