[ Filed under Lamps & Lights or in the Furnishings category ] So wait, how big is that little white house-shaped box? Hard to say at first, but the camera angle and horizon line are big clues. This miniature model home lights up the landscape from about a foot off the ground, illuminating its surroundings with a soft glow. But wait, there are more! One could really have a lot of …  Read More →

[ Filed under Tableware or in the Furnishings category ] Modern kitchens have so much technology, one has to wonder sometimes how people lived without all this cookware – yet they did. These sleek and sharp-looking stainless-steel knives are an attempt to go back to a simpler, less-cluttered kitchen without compromising contemporary conveniences to which we have become accustomed. Using the flat of the blade and/or the handle, …  Read More →

[ Filed under Furnishings or in the Decorative category ] This is do-it-yourself decor at its best: wallpapers that provide a framework to let children get creative and adults customize their interior design. More like peal-away borders than traditional wallpaper per say, this idea lets home owners blend the best of stylish professional design with unique, personal and artistic decorative touches. So easy a kid could do it (and does in the photos... 

[ Filed under Fixtures or in the Appliances category ] This pedal-powered cylinder has just one wash cycle – the one your power in order to shrink your appliance (and not your clothes). It looks like anything by a manual laundry machine, more like a hamper perhaps or most like, well, a trash can for your clothes. However, this odd little design packs a lot of innovative technological ideas and functional concepts into a very small-space... 

[ By Delana in Architecture & Design , History & Factoids . ] The military buildings of today are relatively bland and plain, but in centuries past military architecture was something to be admired. Military forts, whether they were stand-alone installations or incorporated towns within their walls, had to be tough enough to stand up to attacks and well-designed enough to effectively return fire when required. Star-shaped forts were... 

[ Filed under House Boats or in the Architecture category ] Less like a leisure craft and more like a 10,000 square-foot, three-level villa on the water, this incredible (and expensive) floating home can hardly be called a houseboat. After all, it is the opposite of the typical built-to-the-borders model of immobile houseboat – and looks like anything but a converted ship of the sea. Think it, perhaps, like a personal cruise ship –... 

[ Filed under More or in the Gadgets & Tech category ] How about a portable desktop printer that prints out pages you can erase? Beyond being a great, green and cheap alternative to buying endless colored ink cartridges, the prints themselves have a hand-made feel that only comes from that traditional graphite we all associate with hand-written letters and memos. Like the idea so far? Time to mix it up a bit: there is also a section of... 

We have covered a lot of architecture projects and this one, called “Leaf House”, may well be the most amazing cottage in the world. The cottage is located on an escarpment overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Sydney, Australia. It belongs as part of a larger private residence. The shape of the project has been fastened from the images of leaves making this very unique indeed. The roof is constructed of copper which has been woven into... 

[ Filed under Kitchens or in the Interiors category ] Worms composting food right in your kitchen sounds kind of scary, right? In this strange but compelling all-in-one kitchen concept, drained water is reused, other waste is a recycled and energy consumption is reduced. The idea is that the flow of cooking becomes fundamentally integrated with the natural cycles of the environment – herb garden meets trash compactor meets space-age style.... 

Thinking about the future makes you wonder about what we have not seen at this point in our lives. Take for example futuristic home furnishings like the Fusion Table by Sony. Here a computer has been grafted into a coffee table creating a high-tech piece of furniture that is eye-catching and dual purpose. Fusion is set to retail for around $3,000. It will be interesting to see how well it is received. Via – Bornrich . Post from Futuristic... 

In its Water Zones product line, Dornbracht introduces new kitchen sink technology to allow a home owner to take the best from commercial and residential kitchen sink design ideas. Most commercial lines allow for simple things like filling a pan with water or a very long nozzle to reach pots and pans. Water Zones introduces a series of fittings that can be selected in the sink setup that will allow for different types of functionality to meet... 

[ Filed under More or in the Gadgets & Tech category ] Imagine someone rolling out what looks like a blueprint … only the buildings begin to literally pop off the page, showing you like never before what the structure will look like before it is even built. There is no way to describe how amazing this architectural innovation is – you have to see it to believe it (video below)! Forget the physical: you can now generate high-speed,... 

[ Filed under Recycled or in the Furniture category ] Not your normal outdoor porch or patio furniture, these grunge-style stools are made of skateboard decks – the kind you ride on, not the type you typically sit on. The DeckStool designers  recycle old board materials into reclaimed wood-and-metal seats for urban-style lofts (so you can, if you managed to clear up the confusion, stack these decks on the other kind of deck). Since skateboards... 

[ By Delana in Abandoned Places , Subvertising & Counter-Ads , Urban & Street Art . ] When a city’s economy begins to fail, those in charge have some choices to make. Should they pump money into local businesses? Should they let the public see just how bad it’s getting? One town in England is taking a novel approach to the scores of closed-up shops on its main street: they’re putting up fake business fronts to make... 

[ Filed under Furniture or in the Chairs category ] Finally, a chair both children and their grandparents will think is downright cool. Each rock back and forth creates a noise the mimics the sounds of sand and surf, gentle waves lapping up on the shore – an outdoor experience with an indoor furniture object. As the videos illustrate, the sand in the runners makes a light and organic whooshing noise – projected conceptually out of...