iVictrola for iPad is a stunning piece of design and is currently available on Design Within Reach. NY-based furniture designer Matt Richmond is the brains behind this object d’ art and calling it a synthesis of art, design and music won’t be an exaggeration on our part. Available in very limited batches, the iVictrola is a beautiful marriage of modern and century-old technology and stands tall on an exquisite and-carved American walnut base. Handcrafted in New York, it produces sound amplification, hence doesn’t even require any electricity or battery power.

Christmas Gift Ideas: iVictrola for iPad

Gifting someone a Swarovski product always indicates taste and style. So why not be extra generous this Christmas and fill your loved ones stockings with Swarovski figurines. We particularly like the Rocking Angel Figurine which can be purchased from Macys for $55. This modern-day angel from Swarovski measures 1.9″ and will sway  from side to side on your bookcase, coffee table or Christmas tree. The angel also features a golden star and beautiful matte wings.

Christmas Gift Ideas: Swarovski Rocking Angel Figurine

This Christmas gift your child the TrueModern MD-20 Playhouse and avoid the gadgets like the iPad or the iPod. With a playhouse your child can actually use his/her imagination and tap into their creative side. The TrueModern MD-20 Playhouse is available on Design Public and is made of eco-friendly and sustainable birch plywood and also includes removable colorful panels, two interior wall-mounted paper tablet holders (paper tablets not included) plus a marker and pen holder.

Christmas Gift Guide : TrueModern MD-20 Playhouse

With nerds almost ruling the world, it makes complete sense to celebrate their geekdome. So show off your geeky side this Christmas by interspersing your holiday decor with geek inspired items. Relax they are not all cheesy as the blog Zedomax has compiled a fantastic list of “Top Five Ideas For Geeky Style Christmas Decorations”. While the Think Geek 8-Bit Wreath is an old favorite at Bedzine, we are now also crushing on the Dr Who tree decorations. Head over here for the entire list.

Geeky Style Christmas Decorations Ideas

This Christmas, unleash the geek decor god within you and head over to Think Geek to buy some geeky old school decor. Case in point, the retro styled 8-Bit LED Holiday Wreath, which will resonate with the  old school gamer and pays homage  8-bit gaming. Crafted of durable EVA foam, the 8-Bit Wreath features shiny gold coins with blinking yellow LEDs, cherries, a controller, a pair of cherries, and a green mushroom in a Santa hat. Buy it from Think Geek for $19.99.

Holiday Decor Ideas: 8-Bit LED Holiday Wreath

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A Christmas Story Leg Lamp

Over 200 items are being offered at a discounted rate over at Bed, Bath and Beyond with prices starting at $1.99. A lot of the items on sale are however the ones carrying familiar Christmas-themed designs. If you are not the picky type and are looking for some great home and room stuff, you may want to check this sale out.

The sale consists of toys, food and boxes, items which may very well be of use to you now or for later. All items include free shipping already. Some of the items you can expect are:

• EZ Build Gingerbread Train Kit for $1.99
• Bartons Bark Tin with 2.67-oz. Bar of Chocolate for $3.99
• Chocolate Holiday House Kit for $3.99
• Asher’s 1-lb. Pretzel Box for $4.99
• The Twelve Coffees of Christmas for $4.99

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Fireplaces are known to provide the warmth needed in colder seasons and for designer Thierry Fischer, adding some modern designs could very well become a more welcome addition for any home. The new design offers smooth curvy lines, comfortable spacing, and the right twists and turns to make it an emphatic piece of furniture you can consider placing in your living room. It is a heating system that has done away with the good old mantle place.

Hence, fancy or not, this design certainly uplifts modern home interior designs we know of today. The design should be great for any home and too bad it just came out when the Christmas season is over. Then again there is still next year right?

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A Fireplace That is also a Heating System

Christmas may be over but we missed some cool looking furnishings such as this one from Fabien Capello. Actually these are ideas for you to dispose used Christmas trees, something he did in London, England.

He is actually the recipient of used and loveless lumber, turning the discarded pieces into something trendy and useful which should fit in any home. Although Christmas tree wood is hard to work with because it is so young, it’s incredibly admirable that Fabien Capello would transform trees into something that can be brought back into the home

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Christmas Furniture from Fabien Capello

The Thomas Kinkade Night Before Christmas Talking House will make for an exquisite gift or as a Christmas decor. Selling on Hammacher for  $134.95, the stunning  hand-painted house lights up in sequence as Painter of Light Thomas Kinkade recites ‘ target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”Twas the Night Before Christmas. The hand-numbered Victorian-style house also features now and brilliant lights and carries a certificate of authenticity.

Christmas Gift Ideas: Thomas Kinkade Night Before Christmas Talking House

Litelocker is a good option to have around during the holidays. The low profile container (1 1/2 inches high) ensures you don’t have to keep putting up and then removing lights since when not in use, it hides the lights discreetly. Virtually unnoticeable from the sidewalk when closed, it includes wires, sockets and light bulbs and opens and closes in minutes to display or store lights. For more information head over here.

Christmas Buys: Litelocker

Christmas may just be two days away but that doesn’t mean you should stop shopping for home decor ornaments. Check out the Cordless Prelit Evergreen Centerpiece from Hammacher which  has a flameless candle and 30 white LEDs. The candle looks like a traditional wax candle, and there wont be any  unsightly electric cords for the eyes. The centerpiece illuminates for up to 100 hours using two D batteries and is selling for  $64.95.

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Christmas Buys : Cordless Prelit Evergreen Centerpiece

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With the cooler weather ahead, the best way to stay warm is though gadgets or turning on the home heaters you have installed. But in case you are a techie geek, here is something you may find handy. The device is a USB Cushion Pillow which generates warmth once you plug it in via USB connectivity.

The USB Cushion Pillow can be a wrist pad when working on the computer so it has double benefits. It should be ideal for women thanks to its pink colored theme and can be purchased for about $30. It could be a great gift idea as well for the coming Christmas season.

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Keep Warm with the USB Cushion Pillow

The Christmas Cracker Orchestra is a must buy  this Christmas and also makes a great gift. The box contains  eight Christmas crackers that each pop open to reveal one of eight plastic whistles tuned to individual notes for playing along to a traditional holiday song as an ensemble. The crackers are safe and reveal items like paper hat, joke, and trivia question. Each whistle comes with a numbered card that corresponds to a numbered, sequenced part to be “tooted” along with one of 21 Christmas carols. You can buy it from Hammacher for  $29.95.

Christmas Gift Ideas: Christmas Cracker Orchestra

Just in time for the Christmas Season, here is a chair design that old St. Nick may approve. That or the design was something that designer Javier Alejandre thought of, combining some retro vibe which should get you to think about all those sci-fi flicks we have been used to seeing in the movies.

The Oddbod Chair is made from rotomoulded PET and pine. It “plays at the boundary between an inert object” and an animated movable. Another one of those artistic masterpieces that should be something to consider for people who love odd and unique furnishings for their home.

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The Oddbod Chair

Christmas Gift Ideas: Think Geek’s Tannenbomb

Just in time for the Holidays, here are some fun-filled pillowy designs you can consider using for you Christmas décor alternatives. They take the shape of soft and fluffy looking clouds and should make your Christmas season dreamy.

These should be cool alternative and unique looking elements which should set up your home in the heavenly setting that Christmas ought to be. These balls were made using mouth-blown glass which should render a fond childhood memory at their very sight.

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The Cumulus Christmas Balls

IKEA KALLT 7-Arm Candelabra For Hanukkah & Christmas

They are cool and certainly functional, the Reindeer desks seem to be the perfect furnishing for your home this coming Holiday season. They were designed by Alex Kozynets and takes the form of a reindeer as far as the bottom portion is concerned.

Nothing too technical about them, simply an odd but reasonable desk to have. They are functional and stable, things you would need when desks are concerned either for work or for play.

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Reindeer Desks in time for Christmas

Normally this design would come in great for the Christmas season but thanks to LED technology, you don’t really have to worry about wasting much energy because it will not really escalate your electric bill. Rather, you get a cool and futuristic looking deck, something many would refer as Tron-like.

You can actually do it yourself. All you need are 12 LED rope lights and place it as strategically as you prefer.

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DIY LED Deck Lighting

The Annual Sleigh Bell Silver Ornaments is retailing on Overstock for $79.99 and I think they make for great Christmas decorative accessories. The silver-plated sleigh bell is encircled by snowflakes  and there is a red ribbon for hanging them onto the Christmas Tree.

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Celebrate the holiday season with 39th annual Wallace sleigh bell ornaments

Silver-plated sleigh bell is encircled by snowflakes

Decorative accessories are the perfect way to ring in Christmas and ring out the year

Red ribbon for hanging

Includes a cloth storage bag

Silverplated and engravable

Beautiful gift box included

Set of six ornaments

Annual Sleigh Bell Silver Ornaments For Christmas

Now that Christmas is just round the corner, why not make something decorative when you host your dinner parties? Check out this  decorative wine glass holder that will add a sense of style to your table decor.

There are a few fundamental dimensions that should not be deviated from without careful consideration to the impact they might have on the wine holders functionality.

1. Bottle Neck Hole:

This is a where the holder will fit onto the wine bottle. I’ve used a hole 30-32mm in diameter. This will fit any standard wine bottle. Make the hole too small and it won’t fit onto the bottle, make it too large and the holder slides too far down the bottle neck. This can be changed if you have a particular bottle you need to use.

2. Glass Stem Hole:

This is where the glass will sit in the holder. I’ve used a 14mm hole, you can go larger but this will affect the design of the hook later on.

The centre of this hole should be 80mm from the centre of the bottle neck hole. If you have a bottle with a larger outer diameter or wider glasses, then this dimension can be increased.

3. The Hook:

This is formed by creating a 10mm gap in the glass stem hole. The hook faces towards the bottle so that the glass “falls” into the hook and not out of it. You can create the gap by making a 10mm hole with it’s centre 5mm from the centre of the glass stem hole.

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DIY: Christmas Decorative Wine Glass Holder

The BÄRBAR Tray from IKEA is a must have  dinner accessory this Christmas. Retailing for just $5.99, the red and white Christmas motifs will put anyone in the holiday mood. The tray is hand wash only and has been designed by S Edholm and L Ullenius.

IKEA BÄRBAR Tray

The KOTTE Decoration tree is a must have this Christmas. This uber-cute ornament will surely get you in the holiday spirit. Retailing on IKEA for $5.99/2 pack, the ornament also includes a string so that decorating is easy and fun.

IKEA KOTTE Decoration Tree

Confused what to gift loved ones this Christmas? Then maybe you should take a look at the 1960′s Retro Candy Gift Box which is retailing on Amazon for $28.80. The  Retro Candy Gift Box is full of favorite nostalgic candy from the 1960s like Coconut Bars, Fizzies, Gold Mine Gum, Good & Plenty, Jujubes, Licorice Pipes, Mike & Ike, Red Hots, Sugar Daddy Pops, Sweetarts, Teaberry Gum, Wax Lips, Atomic Fireballs, Candy Necklace, Jawbreakers, Lemonheads among others.

Retro Candy Gift Box

Want to try something different this Christmas and make a statement as well? Then check out the Grenade Christmas Tree Ornaments that reminds you of the living conditions of the less unfortunate ones whose world is dominated by grenade. A set of six costs only £20.00 ($32 US) and parts of the proceeds will also go to Ctrl.Alt.Shift’s anti-global conflict cause.

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Grenade Christmas Tree Ornaments

Pressing the CTRL+ALT+DEL keys on your keyboard will bring up the task manager panel. But in this case, you can make use of them to serve some coffee. Or if you are alone, a cup bearing the insignia of these keys can be pretty neat, especially if you are a techie geek. They cost $23.90 a set and were really designed as upside down keyboard keys. They would likewise make for a great housewarming gift or something to hand out as the Christmas season draws near.

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CTRL+ALT+DELETE Cup Sets

With the Holidays enticing everyone to put up their Christmas decors, add something different this year. Dress up your chairs with a giant Santa hat which should really get you in the holiday mood! The Santa Hay is not hard to place. All you have to do is slip it in and you get some good Holiday covering on your chair.

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Santa Hat Chair Cover

Here is something you can consider for the Christmas season. As people are being wooed into shifting on their Christmas lighting needs, the Solar Powered Festive Rope Light should be a viable alternative. They are German made lights and designed to work with certain climates. This LED rope light comes with either 40 red or yellow LEDs and measures 2.5m long. It even includes a waterproof solar panel and battery box. With a full battery charge your lights will sparkle for up to 3 days without the need for sunlight.

Price: £21.99

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Solar Powered Festive Rope Light

We have seen aquariums used as backgrounds on computers and now thanks to some ingenious Japanese minds, we may yet have them in the form of clocks. The Private Ocean Interactive Clock Light Speaker offers a functional device which you can use to hook up to your portable media player and act as an organizer as well. The integration of a clock/calendar makes the Private Ocean useful as well. You can program date reminders into the device, such as New Years, Christmas, etc. On your birthday the fish will pop up to congratulate you!

Price: $160.00

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Private Ocean Interactive Clock Light Speaker

We know the familiar alternative colors for Christmas, silver and gold, and with the right stuff, ornaments and decors you can buy or even make yourself, you may enjoy a different type of Christmas ambiance for your home.

It is a different way to enjoy your Christmas and perhaps this article can help you out. These are great ideas to enjoy a memorable and festive Christmas season for the home with a touch of glitz and crafty ideas in time for the season.

Silver and Gold Decors for Homes

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One thing you have to look out this Christmas season is that burglaries and home break-ins are bound to grow in numbers. Add the layoffs and economic woes, people will be looking for means to get some money and stealing is one thing that should not be surprising.

For folks, you cannot avoid leaving the home during long hours either to attend parties or go Christmas shopping. To serve as some form of protection here are some tips you can try to do to ensure that burglars will not try to ransack your home.

1. Keep Lights on in General Areas. This can be the kitchen, welcoming area or the living room. Keep one light on and if a radio to mislead robbers that there is someone at home
2. Install burglar alarm systems. You don’t need a sophisticated one. Just get a good and effective one so that in case intrusions occur, the police and neighbors will be alerted.
3. Inform neighbors. At times you can ask your neighbor to watch over the house while you are away. While the attention may not be 100%, at least you know that they can peak at your home from time to time.
4. Secure the Back Door and Windows and go out the Front door. Robbers would never come in the front door even if it was widely open. They know that this would be too easy. So block of the back door to which most break-ins are bound to occur.

These are basic tips but you may be surprised at how you can fend off the robbers from ruining your Christmas.

Secure your Home This Christmas

One thing you may want to consider this Christmas season is to turn to candles (scented or not) to light up homes on occasions. Candles have their way of bringing the proper mood and ambiance on occasions and turning to candles in lieu of the usual energy consuming light bulbs and all can really be festive in its own right, not to mention subtle to which the yuletide season has been known for.

You can get great candles from the stores these holidays and among the good sources for them are:

1. Yankee Candle
2. Zionsville Candle
3. Candlemart
4. HomeGoods
5. Pottery Barn
6. Anthropologie
7. Target
8. Candelicious
9. Kmart
10. Illuminations
11. Pier 1
12. Love to Know
13. Cierra Candles

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Candles Light Up Homes for the Holidays

Most home owners cannot be stopped from doing so but just make sure you don’t overdo it as far as parallel plugging of these lights is concerned. Also, make sure that the Christmas lights you are buying are of good quality as we have seen a lot of homes go up into flames due to faulty wiring from inferiorly made Christmas lights.

As a reminder, keep these things in mind:

1. Connect at the most two Christmas light wires when you plug in. Making it more than may overload your electric outlets
2. Check the wires of the Christmas lights. The thinner they are the higher the risk of fires coming from electrical shortages. They must be thick enough to carry the electrical load.
3. Check the plugs. They should not be easily bendable. If so, look for another. They are poor conductors of electricity when plugged in and may short circuit.

We all want to buy cheap things. But in this case, cheap things may cost us more and it includes our homes or even our lives.

Don’t Just Plug Christmas Lights at Will

1. Snap on Wet/ Dry Shop Vacuum

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Home Gift Ideas for the Holidays

There are some homes that go all out each Christmas and this includes changing some stuff ranging from paintings, rugs and even seat covers. Normally, the season entices most people to change these to the Christmas themed designs to get the household and the people who may be visiting into the holiday mood.

Among the things people change:

1. Table Cloths
2. Seat Covers
3. Vases
4. Bed Sheets
5. Drapes
6. Rugs
7. Mattings
8. Candle holders/ Candles

This is a common thing we may seen in homes that are emphatic about the holidays. Some would go as far as installing Christmas lights although the decline of turning towards the use of these lights started out last year due to a call of more conservative practices as far as Christmas lighting is concerned.

So while others are looking at brighter homes, you can do so with home-based themes that provide your home with a total overhaul in looks. Make the season festive with these facelift of Christmas ornaments through covers, drapes, table cloths and seatcovers. It only comes once a year.

Bringing Out the Christmas Decors

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Keep the Faith with Pure Cushion Gifts this Christmas

For homes that have bars to go with their interior designs, it may be a problem if you happen to lack chairs that can make it comfortable for you and your guest by it. Sure you can always mix the drinks there and just proceed to the living room or den but why did you put up a bar in the first place? Could you not just have stored liquor in the kitchen?

Home and Bedroom made some great looking bar stools in time for Thanksgiving. But while that is over, it doesn’t mean you cannot use them for other occasions like birthdays, gatherings and of course the fast approaching Christmas season.

Make extensive use of those bars. Don’t let them be another place that becomes dead in your home. Get a bar stool to be paired with them.

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Bar Stools from Home and Room

Bed Depot Christmas Ad

Dog beds are becoming popular throughout. The Microfibre Suede Deluxe Slumber Ball Dog Bed is surely to be counted among them. Offered on sale, dogs need good sleeping paraphernalia as well so why not get them one?

(Source) Our ultra-plush Microfibre Suede pillowed dog bed is overstuffed with our exclusive MiracleLoft® polyfil, conforming to your pet’s shape each time he lies down. Custom flat-top design reduces roll and improves stability and support. You’ll love the easy care of a zippered cover and liner that slip off for machine washing. Reinforced stitching ensures these beds last for years.

Microfibre Suede Deluxe Slumber Ball Dog Bed

For one, lights are sure to be the initial recourse of most people today. Many want to see their homes as lively as possible. But don’t overdo it by placing lights and leaving them unnoticed. The thing is, they may be a cause for accidents such as fires.

Good decorations are great to see just as long as you place them in the right places. Many would see them outside or from social parts of the house. Just make sure you don’t place them too close to lights or fire hazards while your at it. Stay safe and enjoy the holidays.

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Don’t Over-decorate Your Rooms this Christmas

But wait, you forgot something to consider as well. How about the climate condition? Realistically, when you are sleeping under good climate such as cool weather, chances are you will all the more get lazy. When that happens, you will most likely not want to get up.

This is something expected during Christmas. The temperature is something different and once you find yourself having to shop and buy gifts to give, first of all you should consider getting up from bed.

Too Lazy To Rise From Bed this Christmas

So why silk bedding? Well for one thing, the comfort it provides is truly something that will appreciate people who seen comfort and convenience once they are able to lay down on their favorite beds.

The lucky person receiving Silkwood Silk bedding will never be too hot or too cold in bed. Silk is regarded as the ultimate breathable material and is praised for its thermostatic qualities. It has the ability to absorb up to 30% of its weight in moisture without feeling damp. The higher the moisture the cooler it seems to the body which means that you will not ‘boil up’ in the early hours of the morning, as is common with other sorts of duvets.

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Give a Spoiling Silk Bedding Gift this Christmas

The end-result would usually be surprising. People tend not to appreciate home decors until they are put up. The product of all the efforts would eventually come into play once they are already up and about. From hereon, improving them for succeeding occasions will surely be expected.

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Aha! Cute reindeer pillows! This feels very Christmas’ey. Perfect for Christmas, which is another four more months down the road. It’s not that far away actually….then the joys of presents, cakes, love and most importantly…..mistletoes !! For the single I guess. Get these pillows to complement the whole feel

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Raindeer Pillow