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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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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.

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...]

‘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...]

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...]

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...]

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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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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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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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...]

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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A spacious room or an overcrowded one? The 3D Curtain means never having to choose merely one. Just put on the 3D Curtain, you will find a great change inside your room. Yes, your crowded room suddenly turns spacious, not just a little. Since most of us still couldn’t afford a large house, why not enlarge the limited space with a cheap curtain? That sounds like a good deal. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Has Shinyoung Ma ever developed photographs in a dark room? If not, why was the pinch lighting design invented? But what is sure to us is that these lights will create you different atmospheres, according to your moods. Of course, it won’t give out strong light, but will bring you more ideas and creativities. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Though we’re now in a modern era, unexpectedly we’ve kept looking back to find something traditional and to rebuild them with a new look. And this so-called“Blue Collar” lamp is rightly a perfect example. It looks like a hurricane lamp, but the lampshade is comparatively more gorgeous, either gold-plated or chrome-plated. Very nice. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Seemingly the floor lamp is just a pot of flower, growing elegantly and vigorously. And it is really a good idea to create a natural design by combining lamps with trees, as you may no longer find the electrical equipments inanimate now. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Strictly, it’s not proper that the unique wallpaper with countless holes in it is called as a ‘wrapping paper’, because it is more like a wall pocket for holding different items. No matter it is a magazine, a hat, a pen, or even a bag, you’ll always find their ‘new home’ on the wall, just as shown in the pictures. Well, I have to say, it is really a great way to enlarge our limited space.

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Presenting here is an innovative aquarium that consists of silk plants, doughnut shaped lights, filters, air pumps and cleaning equipment. Designed for tropical freshwater fish, several aquariums could make up a labyrinth to create you a spectacular ocean world. Woo, it’s fairly an exquisite castle for fish!

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As known to all, it is rather fussy to repaint the room. Despite costing you lots of time, it also results in much trouble to clean the spattered paint all over the floor. But now, Dulux PaintPod Compact unit will give you a hand. It seems like a vacuum cleaner and makes paint work extremely easy. All you need to do is to switch on the button and move the brush on the wall. Well, get one if you’re planning to repaint your room in the near future.

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For those people who haven’t fallen in love, it may be a perfect idea to own such a light. Although it is just a light that looks like an ordinary beaker, you would find it full of romance, giving off weak light in the dark night to warm your lonely heart. Don’t you think so?

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Everyone knows that it is impossible to plant the sun, though it is depicted possible in nursery rhymes. But don’t be depressed, as it is probable and interesting to plant a light as showed in the pictures down. Look, how amazing these lights are!

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When most designers are up to cordless lights that meet the need for a simple life, Henning Rekdal Nielsen, Maria Berndtsson, Hans A. Huseklepp and Sebastian Jansson are doing exactly the opposite. Dubbed “After dinner & After lunch”, the weird light lays much stress on the long cord, as if a snake is crawling. Do you like it?

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It is lamp that lights up our nights, and has fit into our daily life thoroughly. As it is, here is to show you a unique collection of lamps, providing you with much more choices.

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If you’ve been cloying about the same wallpaper, you must try this wallpaper games. As it can make the furniture seems absolutely different everyday, giving you a fresh impression. Through simple drawing, you can excavate new wallpaper for your cozy room easily.

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Did it ever cross your mind that simply a piece of wallpaper for bedstead may bring you absolutely different feelings? In fact, the wall papers can instantaneously make your simple bed seem to be rather cute, no matter you like magnificence or simplicity, modern style or classical decoration.

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Portability, brevity, and practicality, it seems that the new hook has combined many advantages in one, proposing a much easier usage. Shaped like a sticker, the hook could be adhered to any needed places conveniently.

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