Home Love: Furniture For Living Room

Ikea is trying to take some of the guesswork out of buying new furniture, and the company has turned to augmented reality for the solution. Say you're browsing Ikea's 2014 catalog. Once customers find a piece of furniture that interests them, all they have The most frequent interior remodels involve bathrooms, then the kitchen and the living room or family room. The least popular interior rehabs involve the basement, a home office or a laundry room. The most frequent work on the exterior is painting the house. Heck, usually you don’t really have a great idea when the couch will get to your living room. Like all businesses, the furniture industry is undergoing dramatic changes, thanks to the dual challenges of the digital age and the recession. That means both Life-size holograms could have uses at retail locations like auto dealerships and furniture stores (to demo large products or serve as virtual greeters), but also could be used in the home, Thornton said. It could even be applied to gaming, he explained. Plenty of architects design furniture—big names like Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind—but few furniture designers embrace architecture quite so literally as Chinese designer Naihan Li does with her latest work. "I AM A MONUMENT" is a cabinet replica of With its long curving windows, curved mirror wall, built-in banquettes and white-on-white palette, all that's missing from this Art Deco living room is Cole Porter at walking distance from Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills. (Photo: Jessica J. .

We've suggested other more hands on ways of templating your furniture in the past, but this tool could come in handy when you've got a little free time at work and you want to figure out a new layout for the living room. Thanks Dave! — Adam Pash The startup’s software mines product photos, picking out colors and matching pieces of furniture that go well together “Stylebook” that shows what else would look good in a living room beside that piece. The magic, Miller says, lies in the a small studio apartment. Within that cube are actually 8 functional spaces. The living room and office become the bedroom with a tug of a bookshelf. Open one of the closets and you'll find 10 stackable chairs that go around a telescopic dining table for Image: Mercedes-Benz The Mercedes-Benz F015 Luxury in Motion concept car imagines the interior as a mobile living room, where you can drive or socialize or work as you wish. This cocoon will have passenger chairs that can turn toward each other for .