February 16, 2008
Casulo
The IKEA Game is very simple - given a list of IKEA product names, can you guess what the product is. Ten products are picked from our database, so every game is different. (From Do you speak IKEA)
An Entire Apartment's Furniture in One Small Box
Ice jewelry
Monster Skin Rug & chairs by LongoLand
The Perfect Hawaii Chair combines the ancient art of the Hula with patented 2,800 RPM Hula motor to create an easy-to-use waistline slimming and fat burning aerobic workout exercise machine that take the work out of your work
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November 29, 2007
ChairStoolBench
Aktuell by Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz
The Young and the Restless upholstery fabrics
XKCD creator was thinking of getting a couch or something for his room, somewhere for guests to lounge around. He decided to make a ball pit in his room
Low energy light bulb at The Plumen project
Omega Steam Shower by Jacuzzi
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October 31, 2007
She’s a Model Now?
Based on Hieronymus Bosch, Fall of the Damned lampshade
Pieter van Suijlekom's Reef Aquarium
She’s a Model Now? (Ooops, doesn't work!)
Winner of the “2007 Ugly Couch Contest”
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October 03, 2007
The 3 million yen bathtub
Cut your own hair with the original Flowbee
Deckchair Dreams - 25 celebrity artists, who have each designed a deckchair canvas
Drawing inspiration from the bonsai, park planters were created to elevate the common household plant to the status of full grown tree. The potted plant becomes the backdrop for an urban park scene. (From Better Living Through Design)
The Strange Story of Napoleon's Wallpaper
Artist Tetsuya Nakamura’s Hot-rod bath
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August 01, 2007
Time to Call Merry Maids
Milk, a Danish Table designed for a Mac
Top 5 Chairs Made From Trash
The Philosophy of Furniture; Edgar Allan Poe's theories on interior decorating
The Emergency stool is a laser cut panel of Baltic Birch plywood where each part is connected to each other creating a panel that can be displayed an image on the wall prepared to be but into action for an emergency by simply breaking the panel into it's individual parts
The Doorknob Condition ensures privacy
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June 28, 2007
Yin/Yang
Yin-Yang outdoor sofa. (From Out Next)
Questionable Hotel Rugs taken at an Atlanta hotel by Tina Roth Eisenberg
A set of Mac OS x dock icon pillows
International “dream toilet” competition for architects, designers and engineers, dreamt by Oliviero Toscani, former Benetton ad guru
Pimp My Chair: La-Z-Boy Thrives on Overstuffed Innovation
Nutri-plates. (From dérive)
A really huge ceiling lamp - The XL(AMP) by Objet B’ Art. Also, Wiener Dog Lamp
(Image above from Natanson)
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May 18, 2007
Cat Tour
Wallpaper from the 70s. (From Coudal)
Awe-Inspired Cats Tour Ghetto-ized Bedroom
Human-sized Copper frogs for your yard, by Beau Smith. (From Flat Rock)
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April 25, 2007
Napkin Folding
Eero Saarinen’s Womb Chair, 1947
Johnny Swing’s Nickel Couch
A museum of original Russian samovars from Tula
Unrelated: Random image thread on Fark. (not safe for dialup)
No time to blog tonight. sorry.
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April 03, 2007
Bookcase made out of books
This into that - fine art furniture from Jim Rosenau
Sexy furniture by Mario Philippona
"Rolling Stones Logo" Swimming Pool Mural. (Celebrating Keith Richards snorting his dad?)
Hate washing dishes? Try The DishMaker by Leonardo Bonanni. This machine makes dishes by recycling old ones and just re-forming them
(Pix above from Stiknstein)
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February 19, 2007
Let 100 Leos Bloom
Beautiful Vintage stoves restored by Stevan Thomas. (See comments below)
Also, Meneghini antique refrigerator. (From Neatorama)
28,000 potted, blooming flowers
Mens et Manus (MIT logo) in origami, by Brian Chan
Some Hungarian home decorator
Pink Not Dead! Project
Making a little box out of a Post-It Note
Egg Bird Houses by J. Schatz
Yahoo's The Pianist
Movisi modular sofa
Seen everywhere: Folding Chair (YouTubesky). Update: Chishen Chiu's website
Petronas 2007 Chinese New Year Greetings
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January 19, 2007
Green homes
The water sculptures of William Pye. (From Spluch)
Colorful refregirators by an Italian manufacturer, and other cool refrigerators
Toyota green roofs, $43 per tile
Good contractors are hard to find. This is a good example of a bad one... (I’m about to build two similar pages in the near future, if I don’t get satisfactory resolutions from two outfits that took my money & ran…)
The Slouch couch, a six-foot diameter curved chair with a highly finished fiberglass shell and an upholstered interior
David Delamare Murals. (From Ample Sanity)
Gravitonus, a multifunctional computerized system, created for optimum ergonomic conditions at work
Normal Room shows you interior design and home furniture from all around the globe
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December 15, 2006
Deepak Chopra quote
24th Century Interior Design. Man Goes Bankrupt Building Starship Voyager Home
Antique Bendix washer/dryer covered in a quote by Deepak Chopra: "Human consciousness and cosmic consciousness are one. The field dances and waits for us to join in. It constantly folds and refolds itself, like an infinite wool blanket tumbling in a dryer at infinite speed". (Thank you, Valkyrie).
More by Alyce Santoro: Florida waters: An anointing infusion carefully brewed in small batches from organically grown herbs, flowers, spices, and orange doughnuts. Family recipe passed down interplanetarily. Letterpress label on blue glass bottle. Limited edition, unnumbered
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November 13, 2006
Pimp cups
A fireplace that hangs on the wall
Doorbell Instructions. When the presence of a doorbell isn't enough and instructions are deemed necessary. (From Coudal)
Our pimp cups are made of glass and the finest crystals and rhinestones. We take pride in the quality of our pimp cups. The styles of pimp cups change frequently. Be sure to check our site often
Steve's Weird House is Seattle's Strangest Home & Private Museum. Stephen resides in a Victorian home that is a cluttered combination of museum, library and art gallery, decorated with that old-world Addams Family charm. Not only is every inch of every wall covered with art, but all the ceilings are also decorated. (From Szanalmas)
Beth’s Wall pockets
Bright handles glows red when locked, green when unlocked. (From A Whole Lotta Nothing)
69 Wine Caddies by artist Guenter Scholz
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October 26, 2006
The crochet lawn
Jane Bolsover’s knitted garden
Fun with Treadmills. (GooTube)
For all you trash cans needs, Trash Cans & More
Handy Japanese reading stand
IQ Light is a self assembly lighting system made up of interlocking quadrilaterals
The Coffin Kitchen. (thank you, Raluca)
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October 02, 2006
German DJs
Gallery of Owner-Built Toilets. (From Give, Get, Take, Have)
Obscene Interiors is a collection of real online male personal ad photos and my critique of the naive interior decorating exposed therein. (No need to shield your timid eyes, the often-nude figures have been laboriously obscured.)
German DJs and their living rooms. (From Coudal)
Don Simpson’s home, the ultimate Hollywood bachelor pad
Joe Papendick Outdoor Bird Feeder Sculptures. (From Sciatica)
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August 22, 2006
Cool mechanical fish
What do you get for the eccentric executive who has everything? How about the Ant Desk? It’s part desk, and part Ant Farm. It’s the ultimate desk for nature lovers, bug lovers, and, well, other people who want a weird desk
I was at a pool party a few weeks ago, and they had a mechanical fish swimming in the pool (My photo above). It was a cool pool fish
Dishwasher infolight. An ambient light beam, created because "the dishwasher is so quiet", they "had to create a device that beams a small light onto the floor so you can tell it's running"
Motion of a lampshade and other Product Design Shorts by Ben Hopson
The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement (1970). (From Boing Boing)
Fresno’s Underground Gardens
10 toilets you have never seen. Also, Toilet-O-Rama at “Neatorama”
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July 25, 2006
Matt Mat
Door Mat. Everybody knows somebody named Matt. This door mat says, "Hi! I'm Mat" in bold black letters on a natural background. (From BB Links)
Johnny Swing’s Obsessive Furniture line
Moving Sofa Constant. We have noticed you have a small personal problem with sofas. You move them and get them stuck in hallways. But it's nothing a little math won't fix
Toast the one you love, with The Love Toaster
By the way, if you haven’t done so already, I am still interested in sending you 100 dollars... Only about 411 325 to go... Please help spread the word...
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July 03, 2006
Hand Cut
A better wall plug. (From Collision Detection)
The Floating Bed. Also, a magnetic floating bed from Holland
Dixie Cup Spherical Dodecahedron
10 Coolest BBQ Grills from Neatorama
Also, the Pot-de-Feu (pot of fire) grill, hand-cut by artist John T. Unger from scrap 20 lb propane tanks
Ever wonder what happens when you dump a bucket of Liquid Nitrogen in a pool? Re-post: 1001 things to do with Liquid Nitrogen
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May 31, 2006
Need help!
(I need to buy some lightning for my bedroom. I like this Ango Lamp. Any reader / decorator willing to come down to Riverside & help me fix my house?)
Moving Color glass tiles. (From Farpas e bitaites)
Not your same old shower curtain. (From BB Links)
Skelly, The Garden Swimmer Sculpture
Richard Sweeney’s paper lights
Step by step of how to build am aquarium coffee table for a fraction of the cost of ready-made models
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April 16, 2006
Topiary Art
Emoticons color cushions. The six-piece set of emoticons designed as different color cushions is good for all children
Magnetic Refrigerator Lights. Turn your fridge into a canvas for LED art
A plate to eat a slice of pizza by Atypyk
Topiary Art by Topiary Joe
Oil lamp shadow projectors
Anderson Township Zoning Dispute
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March 11, 2006
Hand Painted Murals
murals by the Persian-Danish artist Medad
The very cool AOL Throne was built in the summer of 2003. It contains 4000 CDs, weighs at least 150 pounds, barely fits through doors, and plugs into an electrical outlet
Western Home Décor: Hand Painted Saw Blades
The many uses for cork for home decoration
Multi-level floors with Poetic Technologies
Nick Baxter’s Tattoos of Furnitures
Large Amish Tables
Flat turned into Baroque replica. A cabinet maker laboured for six years to turn his Lancashire retirement flat into a copy of French king Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles
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January 11, 2006
Tiki World
Twig Bench made from copiced (?) hazel, by furniture designer Russell Pinch. (From ”Book of joe”)
After many months of hard work, Mr. Balis' Hai'deaway is now open. Please come on in, sit down, and have a virtual look around while I mix you up a fruity cocktail or three as the tropical sounds of Martin Denny and traditional Polynesian music waft along the humid island breezes. Play some pinball if you wish, it's set to free play
Residential Urinals are showing up in more and more high-end bathroom renovations. For example, here’s Dave’s urinal
Partridge Nail Relief Sculpture and other murals by David Gerry Partridge. (After a post by Joe Clark on his beautiful Toronto photoblog). Also, David Shrigley’s Sculpture of a nail
Hand grenade oil lamps by Piet Houtenbos. $40.00
Gutterstuff, the Foam Filter Insert
Dress your milk or juice cartons for breakfast with these Carton Slips
Animi Causa seating system
Alvin Lustig, Modern American Design Pioneer
Whitehall Flagler Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida
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October 18, 2005
Back-to-the-Fifties
Deadly Nightshades. The Original 1950's Fiberglass Reproduction Lampshade Company
My house. I've been collecting 50's furnishings since 1993. At the beginning time, there was a lot of it around. Now it is getting to be extremely hard to find items. I was lucky enough to find great things and fantastic prices. Not everything in the house is vintage, I try to stay current on most electrical appliances
Wayne Cain Architectural art glass
The Brighthandle Door Handle changes its light from Green to Red when the room is occupied
The Ventana lamp curtain can be rolled down when you need privacy and rolled up and out of the way to create open space
Dream Kitchen, a dazzling flash animation from Ikea
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August 16, 2005
Designer-babble
Beautiful Ripples luxurious bathrooms
Bring back the spittoon! A giant spittoon collection
Esther Derkx’ Improved Crockery
Order up the buffalo wings and ice down the Milwaukee’s Best--it’s almost football season! And there’s no better place to play armchair quarterback than in the Golgotha La-Z-Boy
A blog about monobloc plastic chair, the most successful and least beloved piece of furniture of our culture
The Household Cyclopedia - a book of general knowledge printed in 1881. (From ”Fawn Jotters”)
Residential Pneumatic Vacuum Elevator
Home graffiti - Translate urban, misfit anger into commercial, homely decoration
Modern cave. People still live in caves
A Cob Cottage Update: A Multi-Media Visit with Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley on New Developments in the World of Cob Building. The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage
Building a Cob Oven. (From ”Jolly Socratic”)
An Exhibit of Flower Shaped Urinals and other Nature Inspired Sculptures by San Francisco Artist, Clark Sorensen
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July 19, 2005
'Finding Nemo'
Amazing pool-floor mosaic of the cast of 'Finding Nemo' by Robert Vogland. (From Adam Kempa. Also there, Bottlecap wall at Brooklyn's Barcade and Thousands of old 45s on eBay!)
EcoSmart Fire Places. (Thank you, Michael)
Leon Trotsky's Toilet, Tub, and Hot Water Heater. (From Toilets of the World: Toilets I have encountered)
Temperature-sensitive bathroom fixtures from Hansa
Stige stool by Marzio Riboldi and Matteo Visentin. One of the winners of The Folding Chairs Design Competition
Retro-decorating. A classic Better Homes & Gardens Decorating Book circa 1968
Experimental Lightning by Enlai Hooi. (From Hidden Art Designer-Maker Directory)
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June 28, 2005
Weird Showers
Today, walking around Grand Central I was reminded once again that the late Victorians had a different attitude towards light bulbs than we do today. To them an exposed light bulb looked stylish and modern, to us it’s a symbol of decrepitude and poorness. We hide light bulbs behind shades and diffusers. The Victorians liked to show them off
Welcome to Weird Gardens
FedExFurniture is furniture put together by empty FedEx Boxes, and held together by fedex packaging supplies. All of the furniture seen here is 100% functional. The couch is standing/sleeping approved, I sleep on the bed every night, I eat at the dining table, and I work at the desk almost 20 hours a day. (From ”J-Walk”)
Chromatherapy - Electronic Light Showers
Chopsticks Eco-Art. (From ”Presurfer”)
Johnny Swing and his Obsessive Furniture line
Netsukes from Zen Again
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June 08, 2005
What a difference an $8,000 paint job makes
The tear-out Sanitary Chair for messy guests. (From ”Give, Get, Take and Have”)
How to build an exterior Wood Fired Bread/ Pizza Oven
Welcome to the "Luna City Arcade", our home gameroom. The gameroom encompasses two large rooms. The main gameroom has blacklight carpeting and overhead black lighting. The room is divided into two sections, with a total square footage of approximately 500 sq.ft. The main section is 19' x 18', and a railed elevated section measures 22' x 7'. The extended gameroom is about 11' x 26' (286 sq.ft.) and has checkered vinyl flooring and rope lighting. (From ”Think Bacon”)
My new and improved abode. So these are actually two different pictures of my house, with an $8,000 difference between the two
Two-dimensional mosaiculture has its roots in the embroidered flower beds of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Carefully chosen plant species create different motifs, shapes and images. Very neatly trimmed plants are also grown into sculptures. The stringent rules of this art correspond to very precise dimensions, density of the flowers and color selection. (Thank you, Dafna. Sorry about the music)
The Anti-sit campaign in New York City. (From UnBeige: a blog about design)
Large Steel Fire Pit by John T. Unger
My backyard sucks. It's full of weird mutant grasses and weeds, and dirt. Lots of dirt because the shade tree will not allow grass to grow beneath it. Nothing would spruce the place up better than Pirate Fort. (From ”DRT News”)
William Garvey Wooden Sinks. Prices start at $1250
A Japanese ad for a apricot-flavored toilet
Here we go on our magical mystery tour of the David Taylor’s apartment
Karim Rashid’s Abstract Rug Collection
Peter Jackson's $100,000 Ragtime Automated Robot Thing
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April 20, 2005
Topiaries
Steve Jenkins’s home theater project
The Ultimate Garage. (From ”Think Bacon”)
“During IAP 2005 First East created a disco dance floor for the concluding Disco Ball of the East Campus Bad Ideas competition. The construction was a week-long effort involving dozens of people”
Zac Ridgely’s unique lightening fixtures
A big collection of old joystick became useless after my Commodore 64 burned up, so i decided to make something useful out of them
Topiaries with Sesame Place motifs
Frank Smith’s Nesting Tables
Canned light. (From ”And far away”)
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March 08, 2005
Signs
Take a virtual tour of Richard Avedon’s Interior World
I called every number in the Baltimore phone book under "Signs." I said I wanted to have a hand-painted sign made that said "Signs by Julia." Below are some of the results
Kinetic creator Jeff Trionfante‘s whimsical door bell and Citizen's Hat Stand
Bamboo Chairs by Marcelo Villegas. (From ”Treehugger”)
Light Bead Curtain is an interactive musical installation that can be freely played by person's touch. The installation takes the form of a beaded curtain, consisting of strings of simple clear beads. Each bead, on a users touch, lights itself and emits a unique sound. People play with the curtain by weaving their hands through it, touching it with their faces, and moving through it with their body
A cool coffee table built by Glen Hunter. (From ”Land + Living”)
The Modern Smoke Detector from “Architectural Devices”
A floating bed by Max Longin. (From ”Sachs Report”)
Samsung's HomePAD Internet Refrigerator with Internet access (and more) - $ 8,000
If you like the look of candles but don't like the idea of an open flame, the Candela Rechargeable Lamps is your alternative. (From ”Gizmodo”)
The adjustable Stance angle chair and the Plasma2 computer monitor and computer keyboard positioning unit
Ultra modern furniture from Cosmopolitan Home
Unrelated picture above by Lucian Freud. Many More Unusual Design Concepts Here
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “Que Sera Sera” - “Funny Ha-Ha v. Funny Please Stop”. I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish
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February 05, 2005
Water beds & custom pools
Clever! What's wrong with this picture? Have a good look at this picture. Does anything seem unusual about it?
Instead of a printed picture, the Mirror Puzzle, displays an image of whatever happens to be reflected at the moment
Mr. P. lampshade - Turn on him
Highbrow Furniture, home of the Poul Henningsen’s lamps
Custom pools by Sergio Furnari
The Ruf Betten multimedia bed of the future, only $20,000, popcorn not included
Welcome to The Toilet Museum. From “Celebrity Bathroom” to “Public Restroom”. Click on the sound button for a nice, clear greeting from the webmaster
Groovy sixties housewares by Jonathan Alder
Bamboo fences, furniture, construction and more from “Bambusero”
Walter S. Arnold loves creating fireplaces. He views them as sculpture built into a room, designed to be appropriate for the family and the home
Tired of messy cables cluttering your floor? Organize your cables
20 things that can alter the value of your home: An updated kitchen, modern bathrooms, natural materials, etc.
The Cyclone gas fireplace features a whirling vertical flame inside a concentric glass cylinder that can be viewed from any direction
Wood of the Month Archives
Create your own wall scapes with “Blik” surface graphics
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December 29, 2004
Slobs & snobs