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1930s French Postal Desk Will Give Your Home Office Some Class

FURNITURE, HOME

Need a work desk with lots of storage space and some old-school vintage charms? We can’t imagine a better fit than this 1930s French Postal Desk, an all-in-one desktop furniture that would make the perfect home office centerpiece. A replica of an antique French postal desk, the originals were literally used for sorting mail back in the 1930s. This function should explain the rows upon rows of compartmentalized shelves, where you can display your books, tabletop toys and other work [...]

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Fridge Couch Repurposes Old Stuff Into Living Room Furniture

FURNITURE, HOME

If you’re serious about conserving resources, you really shouldn’t buy your furniture new. Impress the snot out of the recycling police with the Fridge Couch, a clunky-looking living room seater made from various refurbished parts. As you can tell from the name, part of the ensemble is made from old refrigerators. One look at the photos and you’ll know just which parts those are — the frame on the thing looks unmistakably like a fridge. But that’s not where the [...]

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Your Chair Now Has Endless Storage Space Between Cushions

FURNITURE, HOME

Any time the remote is missing, that crevice under the cushion of the sofa is always the smart place to look. Since that crack seems a natural magnet for holding small objects, someone decided to stop getting mad and just embrace it. The Lost In Sofa Chair is the result. Designed by Japanese studio Daisuke Motogi Architecture, the chair is made up entirely of small cushions, with lines upon lines of that seemingly magnetic crevasse. That way, you can stop [...]

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Aakkoset Bookshelf Organizes Your Things Alphabet-Style

FURNITURE, HOME

Looking for a different home shelf solution? While it’s far from the most efficient storage furniture we’ve seen (I mean, how many things can you really fit into an “S” shape), the Aakkoset bookshelf sure is original. Designed by Lincoln Kayiwa, the piece comes with all 26 letters of the English alphabet carved right into the body, which you’ll be using as the actual shelving spaces. It’s actually a pretty clever solution when you need to organize a few magazines, [...]

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MyKea Design Pimps Your Ikea Furniture

FURNITURE, HOME

Love Ikea, but can’t stand the bare finish on every piece of furniture you get? Jazz ‘em up with decals from MyKea Design, who specialize in custom-fit adhesive covers for popular Ikea pieces. What assembled chattel do you get to dress up? They current support only a handful of the big I’s best sellers, namely the Malm Dresser, the Billy Bookcase, the Expedit Bookcase, the Expedit Coffee Table, the Malm Bed, the Lack Coffee Table and the Pax Wardrobe. Still, [...]

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Urbankind Decks Home Furniture With Colorful Street Art

FURNITURE, HOME

Buying furniture is boring. Unless you like boring things that look like they leapt out of a catalog your mother likes, that is. UrbanKind takes the most uninspired chattels and decks them in colorful graffiti stencil art, giving each one an entirely unique look all its own. The process is really as simple as it sounds. They take a random article of furniture and one of the artists (they commission well-known graffiti and urban artists) goes to work, decorating it [...]

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Barrelly Made It Makes Furniture Out Of Oak Wine Barrels

FURNITURE, HOME

Like your furniture the way you like your liver? You know, the kind that’s seen plenty of alcohol during its heyday. That’s exactly what you’ll get with Barrelly Made It’s line of home furnishings made from upcycled wine barrels. Crafted by Swedish artist Gustaf Anders Rooth and his team down in Southern California, the outfit produces each high-quality furniture from repurposed French oak wine barrels. Ninety-nine percent of each barrel is completely recycled, so you can pair some treehugging smugness [...]

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Mark Makers Table Comes With 50 Coats Of Paint So You Can Redesign It

ART, FURNITURE, HOME

Decorating a plain table usually involves adding layers of paint on top. The Mark Makers Table, however, does it the other way around, hiding numerous layers of differently-colored paint under the single coat exterior. Built by Ed Swan, the table starts out life in a plain shade of gray. Over use, the top color begins to chip, revealing the swath of colors lying underneath, creating a multi-colored abstract design on your tabletop. The Mark Makers Table has 50 different layers [...]

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Chairpadbag Adds A Folding Chair Cover On A Bag

FURNITURE

Hate uncomfortable chairs? So do we. So why are schoolkids confined to those cumbersome seating furniture again? The Chairpadbag offers a solution, equipping a school bag with chair padding that kids can sling over the backrest and seat to render even the hardest surfaces snug. Created by Concentrate, the contraption pairs a functional school bag with a special padded flap that can be pulled out after hooking the bag to the backrest. That way, you’ve got cushy surfaces to rest [...]

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Bene Coffice Combines Creature Comforts With Professional Function

FEATURED, FURNITURE, HOME

Office chairs with an integrated armchair desk make perfect sense. Especially when you’re looking to equip a room with temporary workspaces. The Bene Coffice does it one better, piling on smart styling that makes you look good while slaving over a spreadsheet (or pretending to while playing Farmville, whichever the case may be). According to creator Bene, the furniture represents “a fusion of the office with a café.” Combining the comforts of a sofa lounger with the function of a [...]

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Convertible Coffee Table Turns Into Work Desk

FURNITURE, HOME

Don’t have space for a home office? Not a problem with the Convertible Coffee Table, which extends into a functional work desk so you can turn the living room into a makeshift office without having to hunch your back. Designed for folks who get an inkling to work a computer while watching Oprah, the coffee table’s surface can be lifted to standard desk height. While it looks a little uncomfortable from the picture (I blame the angle), the sales page [...]

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Coney Island Line Of Furniture Uses Wood From Demolished Boardwalk

FURNITURE, HOME

Coney Island may no longer be the center of amusement attractions it once was. Regardless, it holds a special place in many of New Yorker’s hearts (including myself) and furniture company Uhuru is paying tribute by unveiling their Coney Island Line, a series of limited edition pieces inspired by the historic Brooklyn spot. More than adopting the former resort as basis for the design of the pieces, the company decided to use actual Ipe wood that’s been reclaimed from the [...]

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Eat Now, Poker Later: The Convertible Dining And Game Table

FURNITURE, HOME

Dining table come mealtime, poker table when the boys come over. While that slab of wood on your kitchen probably does the same, it doesn’t exactly do it with the same flair as the Convertible Dining And Game Table, a luxury-drenched dual-function furniture that flips from an enamel top to a felt-covered playing area. It starts out life as a modern fixture for your dining room, complete with mood-lighting for those extra special dinners. Once the family have finished their [...]

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Champ Sofa Transforms From Couch To Punching Bag

FURNITURE, HOME

Remember that awesome Table Tennis Door? The man responsible for it, German designer Tobias Fraenzel, is back to his old, clever ways with a new out-of-the-mold creation. Called the Champ Sofa, it’s a comfy couch with a backrest that swivels into a punching bag for releasing all your pent-up aggression on. Every time I watch the UFC on pay-per-view with my buddies, someone (usually a friend of a friend) eventually gets up and begins making fighting motions. I blame the [...]

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This Ottoman Turns Into A Bed

FURNITURE, HOME

Need a place to sleep? Here, take the foot stool. What do you mean you can’t catch a wink on a foot stool? You can most definitely hibernate till the summer on the Converting Bed Ottoman Frame, a clever living room furniture that can plays foot rest by day and comfy bed at night. Able to go from ottoman to bed in a jiffy, it gets you an instant bunk that guests can use to spend the night. Of course, [...]

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Stylish d. Selection Bookshelves And Sideboards Are Made Of Cardboard

FURNITURE, HOME

Tired of the same lame bookshelves lining your study’s walls? Put a little eco-friendly class to your room with the d. Selection Cardboard Furniture from Richard Dienes, which currently includes very stylish modern bookshelves and sideboards, clad in striking colors. Personally, we couldn’t care less what it’s made of. It can be horrifically made from animal bones and it will still look amazing, as it houses my collection of history books and law journals. Okay, I’m just kidding. About the [...]

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KegStool Makes A Comfy Bar Stool Out Of Empty Beer Kegs

FURNITURE, HOME

When we finish a keg after having a house party, we return them to the folks who sell us the beer. Now, we just might have a good reason to actually steal it: the Keg Stool. Yes, it’s a functional bar stool made out of empty kegs and a few choice parts. You can buy it as a whole piece or just buy the kit, which supplies you with all the necessary hardware (except the actual keg) to build your [...]

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A Coffee Table With Dining Aspirations: The Basic Table

FURNITURE, HOME

Too many guests coming for supper? Time to put the Basic Table to work. Don’t worry, we didn’t ask a programmer from 1979 to design our home fixtures – it’s just the name of this awesomely-designed, short-legged coffee table that can shift shape to a full-size dining area. A sly dinner table in disguise, there’s absolutely nothing to clue anyone in that there’s more than a simple coffee table lying in your living room. It’s one part awesome and one [...]

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Babies Get Their Own Transforming Furniture With The 1,2,3 Soleil

FURNITURE, HOME

Them little ones, they grow up so fast, don’t they? Before you know it, you’re trying to find a way to get rid of their old cradle. Not very long after, you’re calling up friends to unload the crib. The 1,2,3 Soleil puts an end to wasting perfectly good baby furniture, turning out a convertible three-in-one that can work as a baby bed, a crib and a play table. Created by Castor & Chouca, the piece literally stays with your [...]

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