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Face Shelving

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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...]

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Closet Lamp

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Question marks seem to appear everywhere in our life and now they even come as furniture. Designed by Tembolat Gugkaev, the new closet not only decorates your room but also brings light to it since it is built with a lamp on one side. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Pixel Perfect Camera Wallpapers

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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...]

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Unusual Wood Floors by Bolefloor

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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. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Glass Art Radiators

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Wall-mounted radiators have gradually taken the place of the ugly traditional ones, but that’s not the end. Look at these Glass Art Radiators from Tell Me First, they’re obviously the most beautiful alternatives we’ve ever seen. With high flexibility and endless possibilities to be fitted into the existing heating systems, these radiators allow the users to easily change the images shown on the glass. But do make sure that the images are large, high quality, and look good on the radiators. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Land Carpet

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No more difficult trekking, you could simply stand on a carpet to admire the beautiful sceneries of Europe, Africa, the Netherlands and the United States. Designed by Florian Pucher, these Land Carpets are made from 100 percent New Zealand Wool and feature birds-eye-views of those four countries. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Studio E-Glue Wallstickers

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Wallpapers have reached quite a high level of evolution in recent years, yet new types are still being designed, say the 7 Creative Wallpapers in a previous post. And right here is a new kind that looks more creative. The line of wall stickers from Studio E-Glue aims to change your child’s simple room into a lively fairy-tale world, by using a set of interesting images of animals. For all those who want their children to live happily, the Studio E-Glue Wallstickers seem like the best choice. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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7 Creative Wallpapers

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We’ve already introduced you many creative wallpapers during the past period of time, but we bet you have never thought they could look THIS unique and distinctive! With such special wallpapers, your plain simple houses will never be the same again. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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What a small apartment, but such a spacious interior!

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If you’re planning to decorate your apartments (especially those tiny ones measuring less than 400 square foot), we highly recommend that you have a look at the innovative apartment created by a Hong Kong-based designer Gary Chang. His 330 square foot apartment is equipped with suspended sliding walls and fold-away furniture, allowing him to easily transform the apartment into a kitchen, a laundry room, a dinning room, a dressing room and a leisure zone with a hammock. Therefore, even though the construction area of the apartment is really small, you won’t feel uncomfortable when living in it. Good work!

Check out the pics after the jump to see how the apartment is created. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Glass² Tiles For Green Homes

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The future of home decorations has arrived! Try the Glass² tiles and go for a greener life at once. These tiles are made from 99% recycled glass, having no glue or chemicals, and therefore they’re totally environmentally friendly. Heat-resistant, scratch-resistant and easy to fabricate, Glass² would fit in perfect to your living rooms, kitchens, and bathrooms. Also, they can be used for outdoors, since they could be easily cut into different shapes. So in a word, this is really a good step towards tomorrow’s green homes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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“Light Form” Modular Lighting System

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If you’ve just returned from the Word Join Center, you must still remember the “Light Form”, a modular lighting system inspired by the origami art. It consists of wood panels that can be folded up to expose the energy-efficient electroluminescent lights embedded in them. Encased in rich dark European maple, the “Light Form” can be easily fixed onto any wall, endowing a unique kind of warmth and romance to your home. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Bright Woods’ Collection of Illuminated Chairs And Tables

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Showcased at Milan Design Week, the Bright Woods’ Collection of Illuminated Chairs and Tables have drawn the visitors’ much attention, with its smart shapes and unique glow. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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TakeBreak Wall Decal

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Something that is extremely powerful in fixing the fine cracks on the wall…Yet, its benefits go beyond that: the branches and birds would also give your living space a refreshing look. Simple but really practical idea! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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OLED Wallpaper

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With this magnetic OLED wallpaper, you can say goodbye to the ugly light bulbs. Not only featuring a nicer look, the OLED lighting is also more energy-efficient, 2.5 times more than compact fluorescent bulbs. In other words, the OLED wallpaper is about as powerful as other lighting devices, but requiring merely 3 to 5 Volts to power the OLED film. But the most exciting new may be that you won’t wait for too long to use these wallpaper to decorate your room, coz they’ll hit the market in just two years. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Mountainous Brook: A Natural Bathroom for Urban Residents

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‘Mountainous Brook’, just as its name implies, is an innovative bathroom suite designed to create natural atmosphere inside urban buildings. The Redo Sudio has drawn the inspiration from the nature, and therefore the design features several natural elements like the mountains and the spring. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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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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Grass Lamp

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Grass Lamp is Marko Vuckovic’s creative design which comes with a container for soil, water, and of course grass. Made from light PVC plastic material, the huge lamp could be easily mounted on the wall to give your room a refreshing look. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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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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Less Lamp by Jordi Canudas

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Designed by Jordi Canudas, Less Lamp is quite unique: firstly, what you buy home is actually a sealed lampshade; secondly, no light will be released until you crack it with a specially designed hammer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Antlers hold your cellphones while charging.

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These electrical outlets integrated with three types of antlers on top would be your best choices if you need to charge your cellphones, digital cameras, PSP and other items from time to time. Made from tough urethane rubber, the antlers are also solid enough to hold things.

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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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‘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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Creative Kitchen Clocks

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Kitchen clocks are timepieces merely designed for your kitchens. These clocks may be different in shapes, sizes, colors or more, but they have at least one thing in common, and that is: they make us realizing we’re to enjoy a wonderful cooking time or dinning time the moment we see them. And today we’d like to share several cute and innovative kitchen clocks with you.

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Each spoon and knife is used to stand for an hour.

Selling Price: $26.99

Buy it here

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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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Push-pin Portraits

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Anything could be changed into an art work when the inspirations occur to the designers. Look at these creative projects, they look like full-color portraits of people from far away, but their true pixel-like nature will be revealed if you walk up to them. Designed by Eric Daigh, each of these portraits is finished with about 25,000 pins. Terrific! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Wooden Bulb Lamp

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Just look at the Wooden Bulb Lamp, it’s obviously another product meant for the most weird of your grocery lists. It features a complex ‘mask’ that is made out of laser cut wood with a burned edge. Apart from functioning as a ceiling lamp or floor lamp, the simple bulb would also spice up your stylish rooms. [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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‘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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White Clover Chair

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A clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the normal three, is believed to be an omen of good luck. And most people like you and me had ever tried to seek for clovers when we were still children. Or you may be still searching for luck? You’ll find them on I New Idea: it’s the white clover chair, an eye-pleasing design for stylish modern house. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Bop Lamp

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You think table lamps are too boring? You won’t think so after checking out the Bop Lamp. Apparently, Baita Bueno has drawn an inspiration from the classic toy ‘Bop Bags’ and endows the lamp with a similar shape. The most interesting part is the design of concrete ballast on the bottom enabling one to set the lamp into motions while using it as a light. It is made from injection molded ABS thermoplastic. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Lightscape Tableware

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This is a creative set of painted porcelain vases and tablewares which have blurred the line between decoration and function. Obviously, Ruth Gurvich has drawn an inspiration from the Chinese Landscape Paintings, revealing the tablewares’  functions from a decorative perspective. Besides, the designer also endows these daily necessities with creases, folds and tautness characteristics of paper, giving them a distinctive appearance. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Trendy Ornate Frames, Wall Hanging Shelves

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You think ornate frames are outdate and no longer suitable to decorate the wall? You’ll change that opinion after checking out these innovative frames. Still adopting the basic design of traditional ornate frames, these ornaments also come with vases, shelves, hook and other useful gadgets inside the frames, instead of ordinary pictures or photos. So next time you need some stylish home furnishings, you should try these trendy ornate frames. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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‘Electricity-powered’ Candle

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So what have you seen in the picture? A candle powered by electricity? For sure? Well, you may find it’s actually an ordinary candle with a plug-shaped holder if you take a good look at that. The candle holder is made from insulating materials and it couldn’t conduct electricity at all. But the combination of the two irrelevant resources- the fire and the electricity-has created an interesting visual effect. Really refreshing idea! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Contemporary Rugs

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Fed up with the 2D rugs and want something different? Then you must have a look at these three dimensional rugs from Top Floor. They come in different colors and patterns, but each of them is surely to make your room more attractive.

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Glowing Wings

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Based on the Electro Luminescent Phosphor printing technology, designers have stepped further on the way to create decorative lights. And the Glowing Wings is a luminescent butterfly light that gives out blue light on the wall. Elegant, beautiful and eye-pleasing, the ‘Glowing Wings’ is also an energy efficient light that won’t add much to your electricity bills.

It comes with an inverter and a UK adaptor. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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