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It’s been said there’s a fine line between creativity and insanity, and the more creative designers get, the more insane their creations become. These 10 insane interiors and radical room designs show what happens when one moves beyond the fundamental to, well, just mental.

Propeller Island City Lodge

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Travelers to Berlin rave about the formerly divided city’s wild & crazy nightlife. While nightclubbers can easily get their fill of the former, a stay at the Propeller Island City Lodge will provide a hefty dose of the latter.

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Each of the hotel’s 45 rooms is designed by Lars Stroschen and decorated in a different theme, ranging from peaceful and dreamy to bizarre and nightmarish. Take the Symbol Room, for instance. The walls, floor, ceiling, even the bedroom furniture have been decorated with 300 symbols taken from Stroschen’s decidedly odd imagination.

Nautilus House

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In designing the Nautilus House, Mexican architect Javier Senosiain appears to have channeled Lewis Carroll after ingesting some particularly bad acid.

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On the other hand, and unlike most drug-induced schemes, the Nautilus House is fully functional inside and out, though it might take a very dysfunctional family to actually live in it. Senosiain’s genius shifts into high gear when visitors enter the house. There’s a reason the chambered nautilus never leaves its chambers – if it looks this good, who would?

The Cave Room

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If Barbara D’Arcy’s 1973 book The Bloomingdale’s Book of Home Decorating is to be believed, we should all be living in stylishly decorated caves by now. Turns out, only Bin Laden is… though he seems to be having a grand old time of it.

Japanese Love Hotels

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Love Hotels are a very special Japanese phenomenon that, in a nutshell, are hotels designed for love… and not the platonic kind. As such, the rooms are often decorated as elaborately as possible to match the fantasies of the clientele. With 30,000 to 40,000 Love Hotels scattered across the country, that’s a lot of rooms – and a lot of fantasies. Photojournalist Misty Keasler has made it her mission to chronicle the many variations on the Love Hotel theme and present them in a non-judgmental, artistic way to show off their distinct flavor.

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If consenting adults want to get busy in what seems to be a classroom, a subway car or the International Space Station, fine & dandy- better there than in the real thing.

Hotel Snow Man’s

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Among Love Hotels, the Snow Man’s in Kobe stands out – and that’s saying a lot. At least one of the rooms features a variety of icy imagery tempered with surrealism: like an oversized tissue box for a coffee table. As for the guy in the bathroom who could be Frosty’s freaky cousin, we don’t know and we don’t WANT to know.

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Plaza Angelo Group, the company that owns the Snow Man’s, has other hotels that appear to offer the same chilly experience. They go by the names Snow Ranger, Red Snow Man’s, Planet Snow Man’s and Milky Snow Man’s. Have fun, kids… and play safe.

Designer Jet Interiors

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“Designer Jet interiors for the rich and famous…” Seriously, who else besides the rich and famous can afford a designer jet interior, let alone the actual jet to wrap around it? Certainly not Joe Sixpack – unless he bills it to the RNC. But I digress. These over the top and over the troposphere jet interiors make flying the friendly skies that much cozier. Best yet, the bar never closes.

Car Of Many Colors

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Car interiors can get as crazy as they come and really deserve their own dedicated article but we can sum up the entire genre succinctly with the image above. This wild car interior has been done up in 4 brilliant hues not found in nature – at least, not on THIS planet. It’s not known if the driver is color-blind or not but one must assume that’s the case. How else could they drive more than a block without passing out.?

Jekyll & Hyde Bedroom

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This frightening bedroom – people are expected to sleep here? – seems more Hyde than Jekyll. Notwithstanding the bizarre bed itself, which looks like a prop from The Pit and The Pendulum, the rest of the so-called decor appears designed to disturb. It’s not stated what the microphone and the rock suspended from a rope noose are for, but you can be sure it’s for no good purpose.

Hang Nga Guesthouse

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Vietnam has loosened up a lot since communism was officially consigned to history’s ash heap but even so, the Hang Nga Guesthouse really takes a great leap forward. As for its name… be assured it sounds a lot better with the native pronounciation.

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The Hang Nga Guesthouse (also known as the “Crazy House”) was designed by – wait for it – Hang Nga, the daughter of a 1980’s president of Vietnam. Located in the town of Dalat, the guest house’s rooms can be booked by tourists and they even offer a non-smoking room… who needs to smoke when you’re inside an architectural hallucination?

Room 1408

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Room decor driving you crazy? You must be in room 1408, the haunted hotel room in the Stephen King story based movie of the same name. The digits 1,4,0 and 8 add up to 13, you see, and… well, anyway, if we learn anything from the film it’s that having killer decor isn’t always a good thing.

Bookshelves: Best Bookcases, Bookshelf & Bookcase Designs

If you or a book-lover you know are stuck on how to redecorate your urban dwelling and store your favorite volumes here are twenty unusually clever shelving solutions.

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Below are the main finalists from the Korean stage of the Wall-Lords asian comp. Next month will be the China stage..

AOS Clan

Liquid Fire Crew

Blackhand Crew

MadVictor Crew

BSN12 Crew

Western guests, Ewok & Pose were invited to showcase their advanced techniques below, with each doing the other’s name….

Ewok by Pose

Pose by Ewok

How many different ways can you upcycle a dumpster? In a project called ‘Skip Conversions’, eco-conscious artist Oliver Bishop Young proved that what used to be grimy, unsanitary trash receptacles can be transformed for a myriad of uses including swimming pools, skateboard ramps, gardens and even public toilets.

The Goldsmiths University graduate created a stunning urban art project that highlights the versatility of what many people consider a single-use item. It brings together guerilla installation art, recycling, upcycling and freeganism.

Part of the charm of this installation is its accessibility, with converted dumpsters located on public streets, giving passersby a chance to not only change their perceptions of what dumpsters are for, but interact with the upcycled art.

Simply adding a custom liner and some water gives dumpster diving a new meaning, while a few pieces of bent plywood and tape create a miniature skate ramp. A rug, television and seating create a cozy little living space, soil and seeds bring some color to urban environments and a bed of grass becomes an impromptu stage.

Though the project is no longer active, ‘Skip Conversions’ is a great example of just how creative people can get with adaptive reuse, literally transforming trash into treasure in a way that also unites communities for fun outdoor activities.

Even More Urban Light Graffiti

Architectural light graffiti, or projection bombing, falls somewhere curiously in between.

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One day Allison Stokke was a just a pretty high school athlete and the next she was an international Internet destination, although not by her own choice. Miss Stokke’s photograph was taken during a high school track meet, where she was preparing to compete in the pole vault, and someone posted it to a web site. It didn’t take long for other less reputable sites to pick up the image and set off a round of Stokke-mania on the worldwide web.

Miss Stokke isn’t just a pretty girl; she’s a pretty girl who happens to be a tremendous athlete. She was the California pole vaulting champion and is on scholarship at the University of California. She wanted to be known for her athletic accomplishments rather than purely for her looks.

The problem began to surface in 2004 when she began to receive messages from her friends that her photo had been seen on the Internet. She had 1,000 new messages on her social network site and a YouTube video of her being interviewed had been viewed 15,000 times.

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