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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.

【Kitchen Cutlery Clock】

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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