<![CDATA[Gizmodo: furnishings]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: furnishings]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/furnishings http://gizmodo.com/tag/furnishings <![CDATA[The Bar Desk Makes Facebook Stalking Feel Like a Night on the Town]]> The evolution of the computer desk seemed to stop somewhere in the mid 90s. But this bar-style desk made (entirely?) from IKEA components is a refreshing way to hide a hefty tower PC.

Anyone who speaks un-English is welcome to pillage Ikea's Swedish forum for more details than we could excavate with the assistance of Google Translate, but from what we can tell, this bar desk is a quasi-custom job that could turn your shameful WoW addiction into a mature, metropolitan hobby that's fully capable of wooing the most reserved of Banana Republic lady's section employees. Just stash any snacks that end in a Z when company comes around. [IKEA via Unplggd]

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<![CDATA[Dismembered Doll Limbs Hold Your Keys]]> Some find baby dolls cute. Others realize their potential for holding your stuff—if they're chopped to bits and fastened to wood.

Glued and screwed to a vintage mahogany tray, these doll limbs have transcended from merely looking adorable to the highest role a toy stolen from your sister can hold: a barbaric craft project. The Hooktastic Holdall, available for $50, is tough enough to hold your coat, innocent enough to avoid the trashcan and repulsive enough to keep neighbors at bay. Run, don't walk, for the one unit in stock. [Etsy via 7Gadgets]

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<![CDATA[LED Branch Light Lets You Add As Much or Little Fixture as You Want]]> The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Bruno Fosi's LED Branch Light lets you install wacky LED lights in your home with a modular fixture. Not enough branching artsiness? Add more. Too much? Take some off. Options people, options. [Coroloft via Core77]

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<![CDATA[Motherboard Mirror Only Shows Nerds in its Reflection]]> This looks straight out of an 80s movie about hotshot computer programmers that fell into a downward spiral involving drugs and violence. A movie that, regrettably, may not exist. [3rings via The Awesomer via BBG]

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<![CDATA[Jet Armchair Questions the Validity of La-Z-Boy Design]]> For thousands of years, chairs have settled for arm rests. Now the Morfojet Armchair has upped the ante by eschewing tradition and deploying jet engines for the mundane task of supporting one's arms.

But beyond the bold (if not tasteful) aesthetics, the Morfojet Armchair also squeezes in an audio system (a CD player, actually) to add a little value to the unspoken price. Sadly, the speakers for said system are specifically not gigantic and housed in those awesome twin turbines. Instead, they're just standard-looking components hidden under a perforation in the plastic—like you'd see in a minivan or something. [designboom]

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<![CDATA[There's No Place Like Home Button]]> If your real home is your computer, this home button doormat will make that beachside manor or expansive forested estate a tad more cozy. [uncommon goods via Nerd Approved]

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<![CDATA[Color TV Would Not Exist Without the Test Pattern Pillow]]> We hear that before the days of modern camera calibration, broadcasters fine-tuned their pictures with giant patterned pillows. They only cost about $40 then, and they still cost about $40 now. [funktionalley via bbGadgets]

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<![CDATA[Armoire Kitchen Is Everything You Need, Minus Cooking Lessons]]> While the average American kitchen has expanded to be a stainless steel and granite-clad football stadium, the Armoire Kitchen is refreshingly simplistic.

Over seven feet tall and six feet wide, the Armoire Kitchen is just that, a kitchen subtly hidden inside giant wooden casing. Somehow, magically maybe, it still manages to squeeze in one mini Subzero fridge, two electric burners, a sink, microwave (upgradable with convection functions) and a single drawer dishwasher along with, sadly, about as much storage space as I have in my tiny apartment kitchen.

At a starting price of $9300 (as pictured), the Armoire Kitchen may not seem like a budget purchase. But compared to installing an actual kitchen, it's basically free. [YesterTec via Small Space Living]

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<![CDATA[Blood Bucket Lamp, Because There's Still a Week to Christmas]]> It's about a week to Christmas, and once again, you can't figure out that perfect gift for a loved one. Luckily, we've found the item that will offend any member of your family equally.

The $226 Blood Bucket Lamp (our name) celebrates the holidays with flowing crimson that's in the perpetual state of just almost spilling all over your floor. Sure, you could pretend that it's supposed to be paint—there's a bucket and everything. But when you wake every night in a cold sweat, your face glowing red from the nightlight...well, we told you so. (After all, there's good reason we don't watch those gross iPod nano commercials after ten.) [Blood Bucket Lamp via Rinkya and Crunchgear]

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<![CDATA[Pipe Toilet Leads to Elementary Humor]]> We do not know if Sherlock Holmes had the customary stomach troubles related to his opium habit, but if he did, we'd like to think that such problems were reasoned out into this "Ms. Hudson" pipe shaped commode. The winner of a recent Russian bathroom design contest, this particular toilet seems to have to advantages over a normal toilet, except that if you lean back into the seat it might flush automatically. And why we would want such a dangerously splashy feature is a mystery beyond our comprehension. [2-B-2 via Yanko Design]

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<![CDATA[Insect Lamp May Cause Smiles (or Nausea, Vomiting and Diarrhea) ]]> For some of us, the cheapest lamp at IKEA will do. For others—especially those of us with doctors' orders to only read by illumination from insect—not any old fixture will work. No, those with Insect Luminance Disorder (ILD) require constant attention by lightning bug butt. However, when the bugs aren't mating, we can only recommend the Nymph lamp, the leading FDA-sanctioned artificial treatment for Insect Luminance Disorder (ILD). It will run you $2,600 and insurance companies are often reluctant to pay, but to those of you reading this from the faint light of a mason jar filled with half-dead bugs and a pile of grass, you'll know it's well worth the price. [site specific design via Geek Alerts]

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<![CDATA[Fair Share Cake Plate, Hands Off Kid!]]> You know what we hate? When people get all up in our cake. You know what we're talking about. You've got a sweet banana cream or a succulent red velvet, and then, you know, someone gets all up in your cake. What's with that? With this plate, you can measure your cake consumption—or more appropriately—the consumption of others. That's right. Put down the cake, kid. That 2mm is ours. And we're gonna eat it. (The cake.) [uptoyourtoronto via bookofjoe]

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<![CDATA[Space Intruderz Lamps Invade Our Hearts]]> I know what you're thinking. These Space Intruderz lamps look a lot like they're ripping off a certain classic video game. But contrary to popular belief, there were no aliens in Pac-Man. Those were ghosts. Ghosts. So these Space Intruderz lamps by Unison Idea Studio are a completely original, lawsuit-immune creation. Each lamp will run you about $50 and you'll have to email the studio to place your order, but at least that means your neighbor shouldn't have decor. [Unison via technabob and MoCoLoco]

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<![CDATA[Fitzgerald Art Deco Fan Convinces Us to Ditch Central Air]]> It's not exactly cutting edge technology, but this "Fitzgerald" art deco fan will let you relive the best parts of the Prohibition era without abstaining from your self-medication. Featuring three speeds, oscillation and a lifetime warranty on the motor, the Fitzgerald can add a bit of class to your speakeasy for $270. You'll just have to downgrade from your premium gin to the bathtub varieties for a while. [Horchow via DVICE]

UPDATE: You can get the lamp $70 cheaper here.

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<![CDATA[Rocket Lamp Built From Jet Engine (Can We Get A "ZOMG")]]> This retro-styled rocket lamp is more than the absolutely most perfect accessory to complete any room, it's the absolutely most perfect accessory to complete any room that's built from the igniter can of a freakin' jet engine. One-of-a-kind and shamelessly worth its $2,100 sticker price, we want to push each and every one of its glowing jewels...even though we know that they don't actually do anything...and that they probably aren't even buttons in the first place. [Moto Art via Bornrich]

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<![CDATA[El Luminoso Rug Uses Wool and LEDs to Bring the Galaxy to Your Floor]]> Designed by Esti Barnes, El Luminoso is a made-to-measure carpet that mixes LEDs into the pile. Given that the last rugs I writhed upon with gay abandon wrote about were the Wurst rugs, a selection of sausage-inspired floor coverings that looked like a pool of puke, Esti's design is bleedin' gawjus. No idea of the price, but expect it to be hefty, given that it's a commission-only piece. [Top Floor via MoCo Loco]

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<![CDATA[Mudes Lamps Make Me Think of a Prize-Fighting Egg]]> But I guess that's the drugs talking. Designed by Nicolloe Alves Rincon with teenage girls in mind, these portable, rechargeable Mude lamps will, I guess, have pride of place at slumber parties. Just like our apocalyptic friends on horseback, four knobs control war, famine, pestilence and death the color and intensity of one of the lights, while the second light lets you read your Judy Blume under the covers. [Mude via MoCo Loco]

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<![CDATA[Is This The Best Mantrap I've Ever Seen?]]> For when a lasso won't do, may I recommend The Trap, an art installation by This Is Collective, a bunch of rather clever designers. The embroidered steaks on the bedspread, means it will only work on meat-eating sewing freaks, ladies. The Trap was on show at the Come Up To My Room installation in Toronto last week. [Gladstone Hotel via MoCo Loco]

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<![CDATA[Vile Mortadella Rug Gives Excuse to Say 'Hide the Sausage' in a Headline]]> Number two in an occasional series of crazy things to do with meat, this is Mortadella, one of four sausage-inspired rugs. The others in the series are (below, from left) Blood Sausage, Bierschinken and Salami. Made in Germany and available online, I think I can safely say that it's one of the Wurst rugs I've ever seen. *Sound of single gunshot followed by large thud* [Wurstteppich]

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<![CDATA[Astone Sit N Joy Inflatable Massage Chair Does What It Says]]> How do I love thee, Astone Sit N Joy inflatable massage chair? Let me count the ways. Cup holder. Dock for iPod. Remote control. Works on the beach, grass, home, prison (probably). Great name (ass-tone, heh). Wipes down for easy maintenance. Wonderful lay-dee-filled gallery (see below.) Just 122 buckeroonies. [AxPertZ via New Launches]

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