The real thing that's frustrating about building IKEA furniture isn't the little screws or the instructions. It's the person who's helping you. They misunderstand directions, hum Rihanna songs and kick the last dowel under the refrigerator by accident. And you can't say anything because they're doing you a favour. Read More >>

If you're not living inside some kind of Beauty and the Beast nightmare, all your furniture is mercifully inanimate, but the Walking Cabinet gets you halfway there. It won't actually stroll across your living room, but it looks like it wants to. Read More >>

A floor lamp isn't typically a place you'd expect to find a lot of personality, but this one showcased at the Milan furniture fair has plenty of it. You'd half expect to see it prancing around on screen before a Pixar movie. Read More >>

If Audi could do it, the designers at Mazda figured they could create their own custom furniture too. After all, the company's been crafting seats for its vehicles for years now. And with the Kodo chair that pedigree's immediately obvious. Read More >>

Philippe Starck is known for designs that are as functional as they are beautiful. So it's not surprising that when it came to designing a sofa, the results would include everything from privacy dividers, to accessible power outlets, to even a Powermat wireless induction charging pad. There's probably a good reason it's called the My World, because as long as your gear is charged, what else do you really need? Read More >>

The New York Times has an awesome retrospective graphic that shows how al fresco seating has evolved all the way from 1889 to the present. Can you tell we're excited for spring? Read More >>

Sure, it's easy to whip yourself up a old-school backyard fire-pit with a ring of rocks and whole lot of ugly. But wouldn't you rather have a portable, modular fireplace that looks ready to blast off to the stars? Who wouldn't? Read More >>

The pattern in the wooden basin of this sink prototype is no abstract design. It's a 3D model of the streets of central London. Read More >>

Ikea's furniture isn't just cheap and easy to transport, it's easy to hack too, with sites like Ikea Hackers showcasing some of the best modifications. But none can top this hack by Andreas Bhend and Samuel N. Bernier that converts a couple of Ikea Frosta stools into a pedal-less bike—or draisienne if you really want to get technical. Read More >>

The 3+ modular furniture collection harkens back to your childhood days of tinkering with K'Nex sets. Made of white, black, or grey, powder-coated or galvanized plates of steel, you can configure pieces in any way you'd like. Read More >>

The cubicle is a horrid monster of office design. While it might be functional, it's never pretty to section off your office into endless false walls, resigning workers into their own little pockets of a giant ice cube tray. The designers at Taylor and Miller Architecture and Urban Design have a beautiful solution that even packs in some extra features. Read More >>

Because we all dreamed about being Bruce Wayne once upon a time (or to this day), here's something you can get that he could never: a batman logo coffee table. Made by Charles Lushear of the Bohemian Workshop, the coffee table is carved from wood with hairpin legs and is a must for any comic book geek still living with his parents or someone who has a really understanding girlfriend (or boyfriend). Read More >>

Even with their outdated CRT displays, Apple's old rainbow assortment of iMacs are just too damn adorable to toss. But what do you do if you have a few still lying around taking up desk space? If you're Toronto-based travel and tour company G Adventures, you swap their heavy guts for bulbs and string them up in your offices as pendant lights. Read More >>

The Architectural Digest Show — running from Friday through Sunday in New York — will make you wish you had a huge house and unlimited funds with which to decorate it. From crazy cooker hoods to beautiful woodworking to outdoor showers, the show floor has just about everything you could imagine adorning your home with. Here are some of the best things we saw. Read More >>

There's a recent trend in furniture with pieces that defy the impossible and by all logic shouldn't exist. First it was that mind-melting distorted storage unit, and now we have Dave Ritinger's chair and stool Mate set that somehow stack into a single piece. Read More >>