DIY Area Rug + LED Floor Lamp = Bright White Carpet Light
A glowing, light-up carpet? It sounds either kitsch or futuristic, but somehow this unique hand-crafted hybrid rug-and-lighting element manages to put a clever and creative spin on a cozy and conventional home furnishing object – a great do-it-yourself project idea for people wanting to bring a little more light into their living room layout. A simple strand of LED rope lights sits inside a knit pattern of regular ropes, spiraling out from the center…

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[ See more under Rugs & Mats or in the Furnishings category ] Some carpets span wall to wall, other area rugs are cut to fit particular spaces. This highly-custom carpeting, however, has to be the most useless creation ever from a functional standpoint. Fortunately, it is strangely hilarious as a semi-subversive take on one of the most conventional...
We would like to offer you to pay a little attention to small elements of your interior design, which are in any room, sockets and light switches. Usually people try to make them almost unnoticeable in order not to spoil a room design. Although you could choose such models, which you won’t want to hide but in opposite will be able to decorate...
[ Filed under Surfaces & Walls or in the Fixtures category ] Looking for ideas on how to tile a bathroom? No problem: start on the green line then home to the red right where the blue, yellow and purple intersect. Pictures, sketches, drawings and maps – taking these together you can start to see how this artist changed an abstract subway...
The cord that plugs it into the wall – an inconvenient-but-essential element in nearly any lamp or lighting fixture. Sometimes you can hide the power source by covering the wall sockets and snaking cords with furniture, or you can embrace the cord and make it into the core concept of the design. During the day the bright orange speaks for...
Seriously strange and out of scale, these soft furniture objects composed of super-sized thread nonetheless look extremely comfortable. And really, at these proportions even a beginner could ’sew’ something together. From pseudo- sofas to ersatz sleeping mats, these colorful creations by Bauke Knottnerus are composed of all different...
Some of you design-centric readers may know Marc Newson 1987 design, ‘ Super Guppy ‘ Floor Lamp. Apparently Newson’s design was the inspiration for this street light derived floor lamp, despite the vast different in scale. It’s that scale that gives this design a disconcerting proportional presence…like a floor lamp...
This smart idea from Andrew lets you build the Stolmen bike stand on carpet flooring. Sturdy enough to hold two bikes in mid air. “This Ikea-hack is mainly an extension of a design already featured, that adapts said design to more applications. The Stolmen Bike Stand seemed like such a great idea, I wanted to make a similar one for my apartment....
[ See more under Lamps & Lights or in the Furnishings category ] A traditional swing-arm floor or table lamp has a relatively limited range of motion, and is often (inadvertently) aesthetically awkward in order to feature adjustable functionality. This lamp takes the ordinary forms and conventional appearance of a typical floor lamp –...
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