If you thought the “Chair Library” was the coolest piece of furniture to function as a library then check this bath tub out. Made from hardwoods and corian, the bath tub book case has shelves on two sides to hold all of your bathroom reading material.
Ever rest your spoon in your bowl only to have it tip over and spill the beans? Well using this bowl will keep your spoon from disappearing in your food or causing it to spill in your lap. Retail $21.00.
Here is a unique way to light a room, wallpaper that glows. From designer Jonas Samson, this wallpaper all but removes the need for traditional lamps.
This table offers a stainless steel bottom so anything with a magnet fixed to it can be attached to the underside. Once you are done with dished just stick them to the bottom of table and save some cabinet space. Better yet, no more getting up for those forgetten utensils.
These modern beds come to courtesy of Gudiksen Design. Part of an initiative to expose youth to modern furniture while adding functional pieces of furniture to the home, these beds are simply awesome.
Here is a kitchen unit designed by Fevzi Karaman that allows you to have a fully functioning kitchen when you want it and then make it disappear when you don’t. This little piece of furniture packs a bunch of function, included in the unit is: a stove, sink, recycling bin, dish storage and more.
This has to be the coolest bar we have ever seen, well actually its a buffet server, but we only intend to serve screwdrivers from it, so it’s a bar! Designed by Marco Acerbis, and constructed from a healthy serving of stainless steel, this would look great in any room, as long as their are screwdrivers present!
The modern couch, “Diva Chaise”, from Apt-NY is fit for a Diva. Offered in twenty one different colors, this chair will fit almost anyone’s existing room. Or as they put it: “ An untraditional sofa with gently rounded lines. Curved seat, high and low armrests and a sweeping backrest.” The Diva Chaise is very modern yet elegant.
A Japanese manufacture has come up with a particular interesting mash up of a LCD television and a Heater to make the best fake fireplace we have seen. The base of the fireplace is actually just your run of the mill place heater that plugs directly into the wall. While the top of the unit is a LCD screen that displays a pretty good image of a fireplace. For 25,000 Yen or $241 USD, pretty cheap if you ask us, you can get a sweet faux fireplace that actually heats.
IKEA products are identified by single word names, it founder Ingvar Kamprad, who is dyslexic found that naming the furniture with proper names and words, rather than a product code, made the names easier to remember. Most of the names are either Swedish, Danish, Finnish or Norwegian in origin. Although there are some notable exceptions names are based on a special naming system developed by IKEA.
Upholstered furniture, coffee tables, rattan furniture, bookshelves, media storage, doorknobs: Swedish place names.
Beds, wardrobes, hall furniture: Norwegian place names.
Dining tables and chairs: Finnish place names.
Bookcase ranges: Occupations.
Bathroom Articles: Scandinavian lakes, rivers and bays.
Kitchens: Grammatical terms, sometimes also other names.
Chairs, desks: Men’s names.
Materials, curtains: Women’s names.
Garden furniture: Swedish islands.
Carpets: Danish place names.
Lighting: Terms for music, chemistry, meteorology, measures, weights, seasons, months, days, boats, nautical terms.
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