Green Living Home

A little painting can go a long way toward transforming the look and feel of a space, so before you change the wallpaper or toss out your old furniture, consider some before-and-after project examples that show how a change in color can liven up a dull space or dampen an overly dramatic one.

ApartmentTherapy covers such projects regularly, but individually they are not quite as interesting after all, a blue, red and white chair may just not be your thing. Taken together, though, they show just how much you can alter character and mood with a change in tone or brightness.

Bland bathrooms are just plain uncomfortable and too much white can kill an entry or living space.

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At first glance, these furniture pieces seem like destroyed or damaged pieces but you may be surprised to note that they were intentionally designed that way. These were designed by French designer Vincent Dubourg, looking like a lot that just came out of a place that got bombed.

Anyway, to give you an idea on the furniture design collection, there are panels in the shelves all jut up and down at awkward angles while the cabinets have gaping holes in them. The furniture collection is actually being exhibited at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery until in London until May the 28th. So if you want to see them up close, you know where to go.

Is this the trend to come?  Apparently it is (according to a recent Design*Sponge visit to the Stockholm furniture fair).  Plant-able furniture that can grow your garden inside your furniture (think small flowers and herbs?).  It can be useful both inside the home, out on the balcony patio or in the garden.  It is truly the new wave of multipurpose furniture for small space gardeners.