Customize low cost furniture

Unique furniture and custom

When you set up your home, it is not always easy to choose the most suitable style. Or you rely on professionals that direct, or rather, guide their own tastes, declining in the choice of the right and best suits your needs, or you often find yourself having to make preferences, which over time, can also be boring.

Particularly in times of change of season, is the desire to renovate their homes. Is not always true, however, that to do this there needs to be great revolutions. In fact, just a few details, but not too expensive, to characterize the original and make your home environment.

And given the times of crisis, there are many who have studied original systems to furnish and also reuse parts and furniture, in different key each time.

Customize with socks

Very weird, at first sight, but very original and ironic, additions proposed by the young Canadian designer Greg Papove: Socks + Furniture, this is called the small and odd collection of furniture and lighting, consists of coffee tables, floor lamps , carpets and sofas, all revised and revisited in a different way, that he maketh sometimes, even the most mundane object.

Just change its function or to create novel combinations. And it's what happens in this case, where Greg proposed as fasteners own socks. Furnishings such as table Five Toes Coffee Table, with top made with a mix of cotton and polymer of plaster, where the legs, 5 precisely, are combined and designed to be assembled through the use of socks. Besides the ease of transport and reduced encumbrance, who engages in the acquisition of these products, can indulge in customizing, each time choosing different socks, colored socks paired or unpaired reusing.

In the same series also sofa Sofa Unity, where the sock is used to collect and reuse more mismatched chairs, which magically transformed into a single seat and the floor lamp Zap, which has at its base a shag carpet needed to generate the rubbing of socks used the energy required for the ignition of the priming light, also equipped with shut-off timer.

Customize Ikea furniture

Staying on the theme of customization, Ikea, the giant low cost furnishings Nordic does not shine for some distinction. In the end, even though the possibility of finishing of the furniture and textiles are many, there are so many users, it is easy to be furnished all the same. This feeds a business alternative that runs on the web and that has infected the same Ikea.
First of all, we have already spoken long ago, is Hemma Ikea, the online community that brings together consumers of the brand, facilitates the sale of second-hand products and also gives advice or information, thanks to word of mouth from users on how to use or customize certain types of furniture.

In addition to Hemma, we also Bemz, Thisismyikea or even Ikeahackers of sites to customize their Swedish furniture, making them unique fishing here and there and maybe a few tips to use unconventional but functional.

Feet as shoes

Earlier I mentioned the use of socks: but now I speak of heels. And 'what happens with Pretty pegs, a site, or better, an online shop that specializes in revisiting Ikea sofas and beds, through the use of original feet and different from the usual.
Like a pair of shoes, the website, created by the pair of Swedish Mikael Siderblom Jana Cagin and offers a variety of models to be applied to many different models of sofas and beds of the brand, all with original shapes and colorful, dyed contrast, fluorescent or pastel. Prices are affordable, ranging from 80 to 150 euro.

Artistic furniture customized

Finally, I only recently discovered, but Fliffa , is already my favorite. An online shop American, created by Kimberly Hennessy, that rather than customize Ikea furniture, transforms them into real works of art. The game is simple: just choose the furniture from the catalog of the Swedish brand, hence The team will buy the store in Brooklyn, customize it according to instructions or pleasure, and sends it to the sender, again disassembled, complete with original packaging.

Urban custom bike

And if you want to stand out, not only in the field of domestic, but also in the world of two wheels, the design also arrived there. Without that your bike is affected by damage to the paint, Fix Your Bike, allows you to redecorate any time you want.

The kit, created by Danilo Leonardi and Valentina Antinori, the two designers of Tagmi, in collaboration with Rossignoli, is composed of 7 films of polymeric origin, long-life, characterized by considerable graphic effects: easy to apply, allows to customize, even on a budget, your bike, making it unique.