Awesome Interior Design

We’ve seen a couple of novel takes on wooden flooring, but if you’d like something more unique – yet still classy – check out this one made from recycled leather belts. Also for tables and walls.

Through modern technology, Bolefloor makes floor boards in the shape of the trees they came from, which is not only beautiful, but also environment-friendly, allowing for more floors per forest.

Mr. Beam created a unique 3D video-mapping experience by turning a white living room into a groovy 360° projection area, changing the colors, patterns and textures in the space. (Thanks Laura!)

Suppose Design Office imbued the Cafe/day coffee shop in Shizuoka, Japan with a spacious feel mainly by extending road lines and symbols to the shop’s floor, which is also made of asphalt.

Designed as a replica of a 1940s Fresnel studio lamp, Restoration Hardware’s version has a shiny aluminum body, stainless steel base, and takes normal lightbulbs so you don’t blind your guests.

A teeny 90 sf private hideaway for a partner in the Snarkitecture firm, Box/Box was completed in 2 months at a cost of less than $100/sf and features 25,000 ping pong balls as wallpaper. (Thanks Jon!)

Crafted from concrete, steel and aluminum, Atelier Takagi’s LED tabletop lamps get their inspiration from the bright lights you’d find lining pre-fab community streets and mall parking lots.

Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek created this warm faux-wood wallpaper, which perfectly apes the look of real distressed wood. While it doesn’t have actual depth, it won’t give you splinters.

Combining a work desk for your laptop with an audiophile-grade, room-filling 7-speaker, 120-watt sound system, the La Boite Concept LD 120 is a real thing, despite the “concept” in its name.

Based on the specs of a 1930s postal sorting desk from France, this all-in-one office has a built-in leather seat that pivots underneath, and 25 assorted cubbies for holding your assorted stuff.

Tokyo’s Daisuke Motogi created this comfy chair that can hold all your books, remotes, gadgets and other small objects in the cracks between its soft blocks. Just don’t lose your pocket change in it.

To make this coffee shop fit in, Nemaworkshop used the nearby Bryant Park Library for inspiration – and came up with a library turned on its side. The “books” are actually pictures on custom tiles.

TON makes speakers that provide ambient lighting, and are organic and pricey. The Floating Buddha is no different. Most of it is covered in or lacquered with gold leaf. Four 60w speakers hide inside.

A wonder substance that turns walls into dry erase boards. Sketch ideas in the office, paint a bulletin board in the kitchen, or turn bedroom walls into outlets for your kids’ intense desire to doodle.

Believe it or not, that’s a wallpaper. Concrete Walls are exactly that – pictures of concrete walls turned into wallpapers. There are a couple of brick walls and ones with graffiti as well.

The unassuming exterior of this house in Sharon, Massachusetts belies the awesome steampunk interior design and furniture inside. It was redesigned by steampunk specialists ModVic.