Home decor

If yours is one of the almost six million US households that has a resident bird, you'll know that these big personalities are wonderful pets, but they can make a whole lot of mess. This automated luxury smart home takes care of that – and more.

Here's a neat gadget for a touch of functional, neon-minimalist home decor: a palm-sized smart canister device that fixes onto a wall and uses slim, moving LED beams to create giant, glowing, multicolor clocks and/or temperature gauges.

Bunkie on the Hill is a modern take on the classic forest cabin. Designed by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design, it’s the smallest of four family structures, blending functionality with a thoughtful reflection of its natural surroundings.

One of the joys of working from home is being around our pets more often. And they might be purr-fect colleagues if they could just understand boundaries. Enter the Desk Nest – a clever pet bed created by a long-suffering working-from-home Cat Dad.

Omer Arbel has unveiled a stunning family residence dubbed 75.9 that's nestled in a sprawling hayfield in the Canadian Pacific Northwest, and showcases novel monumental trumpet-shaped columns throughout its interior volumes.

Moon Hoon recently completed a futuristic multi-purpose building located near Seoul. Dubbed Mars, the three-story structure stands out amid its stark environment, not too dissimilar to a foreign building being placed on its namesake planet.

Sometimes there’s nothing nicer than curling up in front of the window with a coffee and staring out at the rain or the sunset, but the weather can be notoriously uncooperative. SmartTerra could act as your personal app-controlled window, simulating rainstorms, sunrises and sunsets on demand.

​Everybody loves a nice garden, and the holidays are the perfect time to get onto that outdoor project you’ve been putting off. We’ve rounded up some of the best gardening gear for seasoned green thumbs, or those just starting to dabble in the dirt.

​Say you’re flicking through a lifestyle magazine, or photos of a living room, and you spot a lamp or a chair that would go great in your own home. But how do you find that exact one? A new system can run photos of furniture through a neural network and identify the make, model and where to buy it.

The Sonte Film connects wirelessly to a smartphone app to instantly turn any window from clear to opaque at the press of a button.

The Viera concept is a mat of cushioned equilateral triangles that fold to form multiple types of comfortable furniture.

The Lunar Europe Nova climbing wall is part art and part sport.