Posts from — September 2009

With time, wear and tear of your home furniture occurs. The one item that is most susceptible to damage would be the sofa – the place where you lounge the most, apart from your bed. Naturally, minor tears will show up in an aged sofa but there’s no need to dump it out the moment you spot a tear.

Tipnut’s handy tip will guide you on how to mend small tears in your upholstery (including leather).

Modern furniture design is about possibilities. It is about ideas. It is about the extraordinary power of the imagination, and coming up with new solutions for old problems. Successful furniture designers and artists know this, and their work is a testament to their vision. One such innovative contemporary home furniture designer is Fatih Can Sarioz from Istanbul. He designs a number of industrial artistic home furnishings and other products that defy conventional design in favor of dramatic, artistic, clever approaches to modern décor.

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Do you love high tech interior design products? If you do, you’ll definitely fall in love with the marvel that is called Bloomframe. Designed by Hofman Dujardin, this unique window doubles as a mesmerizingly modern balcony.

Maybe in the back of your head, you always knew someone would come up with this but I bet you’d be pretty curious to see the mechanics of it.

See it in action after the jump (it’s a video you wouldn’t want to miss)

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Tom Ballhatchet and Jack Godfrey Wood, designed a modular shelving unit made up of several uniquely shaped modules which can be flexibly stacked up to form an organically shaped shelving console to house books, ornaments etc.

The shelving unit can also be stacked up vertically in the example below.

Gotta just love this genius design!

You’re a guest at your colleague’s house warming party. A pretty place he’s got, “Itch”, fitted with modern contemporary furnishings. “Itch”. The place oozes class. Very chic. “Itch”

That itch in your nose has been bothering you for a while now but you don’t want to be seen picking your nose in front of the other guests to get to that itch. You find a little deserted corridor. Alas, an opportunity to rid the itch. You pick away… and nonchalantly flick away the bit that was bothering you.

Suddenly, you realise something on the far wall facing you and it looks like it could possibly be a… NOOO, surveillance camera? What sort of paranoid fool do you have for a colleague? And what sort of disgusting act of yours is now caught on camera?

You hear a crowd of people coming your way. You turn around to see your host showing his guests around his dear abode. He lifts his arm up to flick a switch…

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I am pleased to be given the opportunity to extend an invitation to Lori-Ann Bellissimo’s solo art exhibition to the readers of How’sHouse (click on the invitation card above to view in actual size). The exhibition opens on 16 September and will feature Lori-Ann’s contemporary fine artworks over at Yelocentric’s studio in Bukit Damansara. The theme of the exhibition – WILD CARD. Homeowners who are searching for that special piece of art for the abode, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Find out more details of the exhibition and the answer to your question ‘Who is Lori-Ann Bellissimo?’ after the jump

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Pho is a traditional Vietnamese beef noodle soup – something I had A LOT of during my Uni years in Brisbane, Australia. My housemates and I would often frequent this one store run by a Vietnamese couple because they served the meanest Pho in town. However, they always served them in gaudy bright orange melamine bowls, completely unlike the elegant multi-tiered Pho bowl designed by Omid Sadri.

Find out how this bowl works after the jump

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There are chairs and there are brililantly designed chairs. The Sheatseat falls in the latter category. The perennial problem of large footprints of stacked chairs has now been solved by this clever chair, first unveiled during the New York Design Week 2009.

The foldout design of the chair allows it to be completely flat in its pack-away state, allowing for stacking to be akin to that of a pile of cards.

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This is brilliant. Why didn’t I think of using my digital photoframe for this? I’m going to definitely work on getting moving pictures into my photo frame this weekend. I wonder if it’ll look downright cool or creepy to see an image of me moving about behind the photo frame?

Here are the instructions on how to achieve that Harry Potter moving photos feel, courtesy of the folks over at PhotoJojo. Mind you, you’ll need a digital photo frame for the effect.

Fireplaces are wonderful features in any home. The warmth and cozy family comfort long associated with roaring fireplaces has become the stuff of many a greeting card or ad campaign, and to this day, it represents the winter ideal. Because really, what could be better than a warm fireplace with an elegant fireplace mantel?
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