Update: Check out our updated ultimate gift guide: Gifts For Architects If you have been hoping for an apocalypse to save you the trouble of picking up gifts this time, you have no excuses now. But do not worry! We have put together a short list to help you out with your last minute gift . . .
Category: Accessories
Find decorative accessories for your home here. Includes creative faucets, decorative lighting, contemporary rugs, cd-dvd storage solutions, fireplace designs, and other decor items.
Stylish Desk Lamps
Nothing sets off smart work areas like ultra stylish desk lamps, and choosing an office piece that is both useful and attractive deserves some careful consideration. Here are some of our favorites to get you started: The Tolomeo Desk Lamp is a modern icon of Italian design, created by Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina . . .
Fabulously Minimalist Fireplaces
This may sound a little off-season to those of you who are enjoying soaking up the rays of the beautiful summer sunshine right now, but we just couldn’t wait to bring you these smart fireplaces, from designers at Element4, and there’s nothing wrong with a little pre-winter planning to ensure you stay just as toasty . . .
Creative Fireplace Designs
There are many solutions when it comes to the installation of a state-of-the-art fireplace, and this range from Acquaefuoco is worth a browse. The collection stands out with its use of innovative forms – not something you might expect from a typical fireplace! They offer an interesting selection, ranging from a transparent dual aspect piece . . .
Customizable Letter Shelves
Whilst scoping out some fun shelving solutions here, the ANITA range by Ricard Mollon popped up and spelled out ‘hello’! These thermoformed acrylic letterforms can help you say a lot about your home, quite literally; available in floor standing size, or smaller versions for your wall, each letter is sold individually to allow you the . . .
A Massive Home Entertainment Setup
Okay here is a guy who is serious about his home entertainment system. Serious enough to mock it up using a sketch up program… Recommended Reading: 50 Insanely Useful Smart Home Products You Can Buy Right Now
Creative Wall Tiles From Japan
Japanese company INAX has come up with some wonderful tiling options. Dent Cube, first presented at Cersaie 2011 in Bologna, is a three-dimensional porcelain stoneware cladding that can be used to create indented pattern walls. Its design is interesting, because it produces a mixture of geometric structures and colours, that can bring a harmonious twist . . .
Angry Birds Inspired Accessories For Your Home
Who hasn’t heard of Angry Birds? What had began as a video game by Finnish computer game developed Rovio Mobile in 2009 slowly but steadily became a famous video game all over the world for phones, video games, and computers. Today Angry Birds has become a phenomenon that has quite a following among people all . . .
Gifts for Finance Guys
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” We think Gordon Gekko would appreciate these ego-boosting accessories– so much so that he would probably not settle for one, but want all of them. It seems the bull and bear philosophy that has dominated Wall Street is permeating the design world and inspiring all sorts . . .
Pixel Inspiration in Decor
The pointillism painters were fascinated by them in the late 1800’s. Modern society measures picture quality with them. And these days, they have become a source of inspiration in decor. Pixels are now common in the design world featured as graphic prints on everything from pillows to bed-sheets to meticulously-constructed lamps and clocks. This fascination . . .
Designer Clocks & Watches
Some people prefer to learn the time on a vintage grandfather clock that resonates through a tile corridor. Others like the chime of their rare tabletop Philippe Patek. Then, of course, there’s the old standby of the large wall clock. No matter what our time-telling preference, we do not expect to exact significant effort to . . .
Designer Bathtubs
It’s as if these bathtub designers had poetry in mind when they compiled these designs. Each tub seems pure metaphor. Lying in them, enjoying their hydrotherapeutic essence, will feel like Calgone has taken you away. Recommended Reading: 50 Unique Faucet Designs (You can find some great options for the bathroom there)
Cool And Unique Ceiling Fans
Update: We have compiled a more comprehensive list taking into account several new ceiling fan models which have come out recently. You can view it here: 50 Unique Ceiling Fans That Help You Underscore Any Style You Choose I have seen interior designers cringe at the mention of the term ‘ceiling fan’. Majority of designers . . .
Remarkably Artistic Lighting Designs
Lighting probably plays the most important role in good design practice. Once you know what type of lighting you need, be it task, ambient and/or accent lighting, you can use it to good effect to change the mood of a room. Here are some fancy lights that push the very concept of what lights can . . .
Decorative magnetic panels that add personality to your furniture
Italian furniture company Presotto Italia is getting quite innovative with their ModulArt series of furnishing systems. They are offering magnetic decorative panels that adhere to the doors of the furniture system which allows you to redecorate it in multiple ways to suite your tastes. If this video is anything to go by, it does look . . .
Geeky Decor Accessories For Home 2.0
A few months ago we featured an article highlighting a set of geeky accessories for you all to wrap your inner geek around. We are back and this time we hope to knock you nerdy socks off with version 2.0! These quirky novelty items are cute, clever and most of all, technologically delicious. Have fun . . .
25 Stunning Side Table Designs
Bedside tables are not what they used to be. No longer are they simple utilitarian places to keep an alarm clock or glasses, no longer a just a stage for a designer table lamp. They have potential to become creative decorative pieces – more than capable of standing on their own. Side table hunters, this . . .
14 Innovative Electrical Accessories That Will Turn Heads
Do you buy electrical accessories and after a while wonder what to do with them? Whether you are a gadget junkie or in a house full of them, you must have scratched your head looking at all those wires lying around or hanging from awkward places. Here are some nifty electrical accessories which could help . . .
Ways to Make Electrical Wirings Less Messy and More Classy
Wires lying around the house are a very common sight. As much they are difficult to hide they are equally inevitable to do without. Are you looking for some wire-handling solutions? Here are some that might just come handy. How about this slimmed down plug which was a show stealer at one of the college . . .
Painted Kitchen Furniture & Refrigerators
Thanks to Trendir for bringing to our attention, colored kitchen furniture and refrigerator ideas from Coolors that really help make the kitchen stand out. Coolors offer custom printed panels for your kitchen appliances. You could have your favourite photo adorning your refrigerator or have it printed on a cooker hood. Check out these photos. They . . .
Awesome Holders!
Here are some really cool holders that will not only draw in a few ‘wows’ but will help you keep you home organized. Toothpick overload? Check out the Porcupine toothpick holder from designer Rafael Morgan. You can buy it here. More than the functionality aspect, designer Joung Myung Lee’s fruit holder is all about adding . . .