Archive for the 'Design' Category

BedUp

Always wanted one of those hideaway beds for your home? BedUp is an extremely refreshing concept in which instead of the traditional side panel foldaway beds, it has taken hideaway beds to a new concept- by concealing the bed up in the ceiling.
When stowed away, BedUp is raised to the top of the ceiling. What’s [...]

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Straight Line Designs Inc.

Here’s a really quirky furniture manufacturer - The Straight Lines Design Inc. The site takes a while to load but it’s definitely worth the wait. Click here or the image below to access their site.

Here are some unique products which the peopl over at Straight Line Designs have come up with. I strongly urge that [...]

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Verner Panton’s Famous Chairs

Undoubtedly, Verner Panton is one of the century’s most famous designers. Born in Denmark in 1926, Panton’s futuristic designs were way ahead of his time. Panton designed many of his works from his old Volkswagen van and toured Europe looking for manufacturers to buy his work. It was not uncommon for designers to do this [...]

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

HowTo: Make a Polygon Lamp Shade

Polypropylene pendant lights are very popular in contemporary modern day homes. Unfortunately, for anything designer, you’d have to fork out a handsome amount of money to procure it. Despite most local lighting stores constantly putting up banners that sale ‘SALE! Discount up to 70%‘, pendant lights usually cost several hundred dollars even after discount.

Really, these [...]

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Lampshade Makeovers 2

Welcome to part2 of the Lampshade Makeover series. If you missed part 1, click here to read the article. Moving along, we’re going to higher difficulty makeovers now.
The first one comes from the creative and environmental friendly crafting blog, NU2U - displaying steps on how to create silhouettes in your lampshade using transparencies. Click here [...]

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Lampshade Makeovers 1

Let’s face it. Lampshades aren’t cheap. And most of us are unwilling to fork out the money to buy something that looks like it costs nothing to make. This got me thinking on how we could save money when our lampshades look old, drab and weary one day. Naturally, I scoured the net… and found [...]

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

The New OneLessDesk

Good news for fans of Heckler Design’s OneLessDesk (read about my original post on the OneLessDesk here)! Dean Heckler recently emailed me to inform me of his latest release - aptly named the ‘New OneLessDesk’.

Wait a minute… how is this different from the original OneLessDesk (which has now been given a status promotion to the [...]

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

The StairCase

I should’ve noticed this on unclutterer.com to add into yesterday’s post (Staircase Storage Solutions). It’s called the StairCase by Danny Kuo. The Staircase is currently in prototype phase but it sure excites me with the fact that it is built as a very tall shelving system which ingeniously utilises the bottom 3 shelves to double [...]

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Staircase Storage Solutions

Now this has to be one of the coolest ideas ever… another one of those ‘why didn’t I think of it’ designs - a storage solution which utilises the underside of your stairs! I stumbled upon this on Unclutterer - a brilliant website which is totally anal about staying organised.
For those of you who might [...]

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Rate My Space

Rate My Space is a concept by HGTV which allows users to put up pictures of their living spaces online for others to rate. In truth, this ‘rating’ concept has been evident online in many forms, most notably the rating of amateur pictures of skimpily clad females in various poses a.k.a babe rating. HGTV’s [...]

Friday, September 5th, 2008