Here’s a great little innovation and a clever piece of product design found at Crate & Barrel online store. It looks like a regular 30″ cabinet at it’s most compact but when extended, transforms into a small but adequate study/office table. The top and right panes can be lifted and extended to form the desktop [...]
Here’s a good post shared by Kelly from RNcentral.com- 99 Ways to Make Your Home a Healthier Place. Click here to access the article.
Some of the tips in the article may not be entirely applicable to eastern homes (e.g. tips for pools, garages, carbon monoxide detectors) but there are plenty of other tips which have [...]
Some weeks ago, YinLeng sent me this link on realestate.msn.com titled ‘17 Award Winning Innovations for Your Home‘. No prizes for guessing what the article is about here. These innovative designs are winning designs in the International Housewares Association’s 2008 Student Design Competition.
It’s really a great read. Click here to access the article. From my [...]
Wanna put a lamp right smack in the middle of your coffee table but can’t figure out how hide the pesky wiring? Neoz, an Australian lighting company has a great offering of cordless lamps to suit your needs. These cordless lamps by Neoz use a rechargable lithium ion battery and comes with a battery charge [...]
Etsy is a great site where one can buy or sell all things handmade. It’s a community driven site in which one can find numerous unique art pieces created by amateurs as well as highly skilled artisans who put up their artwork and handywork for sale. Prices vary with each artpiece and depends on the [...]
Here’s the second installment to the earlier post on my living space during uni- the Dakota South Apartments in Tenerife, Brisbane, Australia. Click here to read part 1 of this 2 part series.
Part 1 was all about the highlights and overview of Dakota South. Now I’ll take you into my room and the actual state [...]
It’s been a while since my last blog post about chairs. Many of today’s iconic contemporary furniture design are not always recent designs. In fact, they almost always aren’t! Take for example the Panton Chair, designed by Verner Panton in 1959. Verner Panton is one of Denmark’s most influential designers and has a knack for [...]
Are you the kind who often misplaces your keys even in your own home? What you need is a key holder and cultivate a habit to use it. Here are two very unique designer key hangers I’ve found in online stores Generate and Blomus.
Generate offers the His & Hers Keyholder, ideal for couples. The key [...]
I found a most peculiar yet brilliant piece of product design via Metafficient today and I simply cannot resist sharing this with the rest of you. It’s called the Mealbox and it’s simply a Japanese style dining table + chairs that can be packed very neatly into a box.
See the Mealbox in action:
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Many of us dread the effort required in moving house, especially if you’re moving from your old place to a new one and not just moving out into your own place. I was fortunate to have experience the latter but I do remember moving with my family when I was six, from our small little [...]