Acco Tables by Florian Schmid for Miniforms

The Acco tables are characterized by their unique wooden base, which is entirely made of walnut wood. The solid slats are slightly twisted towards their ends and are held together by a bottom and a top ring. That makes the base surprisingly strong and sturdy. The project is inspired by a wet folding meter stick, which was forgotten outdoors – overnight, and showed the next day bended ends. Generating a related pattern to the meter stick, the table legs are an expanded circular version of it, similar to how an accordion is working.

A Sci-fi Looking Furniture That Should Be Featured In Transformers

A new series of furniture specifically designed for small living spaces, while proposing functionality with a modern twist, was developed by Bobinette. This project challenges our conventional perspective on furniture, offering an almost sci-phi looking alternative to it that brings together advanced technologies and contemporary aesthetics of minimalism. The furniture line of the Latvian designer Roland Lands-bergs includes pieces developed for bedrooms, living rooms and kitchens, with a diverse and versatile range of futuristic looking compartments.

How to Plan For Lighting in Your Home

One key component of the home to consider when you're renovation your home is lighting. More than choosing a fancy light fixture, you want to plan out the lighting in your home based on your needs and the ultimate look and feel of the space. So before you start shopping, ask yourself these questions

5 Common Home Lighting Mistakes

You’d think that something as basic as lighting can’t go wrong, but you’ll be surprised. It can become a tricky subject, as you not only need to plan how it will function in your space, but consider its aesthetics, too.

Whether you live in a DB flat or landed house, good lighting can dramatically and effectively enhance your space, but poor lighting will take away from even the most well thought out designs.

So what’s the point of spending all that money renovating your home, if your lighting just becomes an eyesore? Here are some things people commonly oversee during their renovations.

Low Ceiling Height Here's How High You Should Hang Your Lamp

Pendant lamps are great choices for dining areas. As they come in many designs, they can also be used to express the decor theme you’re after.

How to get rid of walls stains made by crayon, markers and Blue-Tack

In a home with young children, it’s inevitable that your walls will become convenient canvases for these budding artists.

“Common marks can be easily cleaned by wiping with a soft sponge and a little soap solution, says Sari Cheong of Deluxe. You can also try removing crayon and marker stains with baking soda. Sprinkle the powder on a damp cloth, and scrub hard at the stain. Some also swear by toothpaste, which, like baking powder, acts as an abrasive to scrub out the stain. If the marks are on a colored wall, carry out a patch test on an inconspicuous corner to make sure your chosen method doesn’t remove paint color as well.

A Refurbished Shop House With a Japanese-Scandia Theme

In a corner of Jew Chi at rests this 3,000sqf conservation chophouse – home to Took Wii Cong and Catherine Ont Ling of Md.Ma Design Consultants. Seeing past its shoddy initial condition, the pair revamped the double-store estate, giving it a contemporary zest without compromising on the beauty of its original architecture. The result is a cross between Japanese and Scandinavian decor, amidst vintage tones.

8 Experts Share Their Best Bookshelf Styling

Selecting a sofa and coffee-table combination or picking a lamp for a bedroom is no problem for many home decorators, but ask them to style a set of shelves and things could get tricky. Ask for advice and many designers will suggest keeping things casual and a little undone, but nailing that perfectly relaxed but polished vibe is no easy feat. If you’re finding yourself in such a situation, these tips from some of the biggest names in design will help you to arrange perfectly casual-chic shelves in no time.

Jessica Alba's Girls Get Dream Bedroom Makeovers

Fashion designers Emily Current and Meritt Elliott designed glamorous bedrooms for Jessica Alba's two daughters, Honor and Haven. The dream-like escapes, which are spotlight in the latest issue of Domino, feature products from the Emily and Meritt for PBteen collection, and they make us more than a little envious of the Honor and Haven. Scroll through for a glimpse of Alba's home.

8 Shelfie Mistakes You Might Be Making

In my experience, there are two main categories of shelves in this world: the ones that are used to actually store things and the ones that are purely aesthetic. Regardless of where your own shelves fall on this spectrum, there are a few tips you can follow to help elevate your shelfie situation. Keep scrolling to find out what mistakes you might be making when styling your shelves, and how to fix them.

Inside a Chic Small Home with Major Style

This petite apartment spotted on Stashed makes the most of its small space with a cohesive color story and beautiful layered textures.

An Essential Guide to Basic Renovation Costs

"How much will it cost to renovate my house?" This is a common question, especially for new homeowners or those undergoing first-time renovations. It definitely makes sense to know how much the various works can cost, so you can plan according to your budget. We speak with Kelvin Toe of Space Sense, and William Chan of Spaced Designs to get a rough estimate of how much you can expect to fork out for basic renovation works in Singapore. Even if you're going to put it up for rental, it makes good investment sense to renovate your apartment for better yields.

1) Hacking Of Walls

This may just be the first thing you consider. It could be to join two bedrooms to create a larger space with an adjoining walk-in wardrobe, or to replace solid walls with lighter, sleeker partitions, or simply creating that open-plan layout. Hacking of a single wall in a HDB flat or apartment costs between $400 and $900, depending on the length, thickness and the area to be removed.

This Home Was Inspired by the Design of a Spaceship – and It Looks Great!

You can say the Force is strong in this home, for the owner was inspired by the Star Wars movies he loves! The fan hired Aidan Harwilll of Auden T to transform his five-room HDB flat into a space pod with a futuristic vibe. There was also the challenge of making space to house a Star Wars figurine collection that has grown to astronomical proportions since the owner started his collection in the mid-eighties.

A New Shop for Scandinavian-Style Furnishings

With its new shop at Sims Avenue, boutique furniture studio Divan offers an expanded range of products. Machination is a new series of clean-lined Scandinavian-style furniture, which features luxurious Belgian fabric woven from flax fiber; American walnut wood with innovative diamond cut technology; and Hungarian goose down feather.

Give your home a touch of velvet

It may take courage to create an ultra-glam look with extravagant textures in rich hues and jewel tones, but moody room sets come into their own this time of year, and grand designs can be a pleasure to come home to.

Are you a Nomad or a Settler?

CR editor Patrick Burgoyne recently took part in a salon event hosted by Flamingo’s Cultural Intelligence in partnership with Shelter and Smoke Creative (the team behind Shelter’s biannual magazine ‘Here’) to probe how our relationship with the home is undergoing a dramatic shift