Miss Cellania
The House of Blood
by Miss Cellania - October 1, 2009 - 9:52 AM
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Where is the house of blood? It could be your house with these home furnishings, most of which are available at the click of a mouse. Individually, they might be described as conversation pieces; put them all together and you’ll have a house of horrors no one would want to visit twice. One of these products used the description “Gruesome, bloody, and absolutely offensive.” This collection is not for the squeamish.

Dining Room

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Designer Amy Lau  was inspired by the serial killer show on Showtime when she came up with these Dexter dining room chairs. The chairs are decorated with embroidered blood spatters. There are also bloody dinner plates and disfigured flatware to match, available from Spring Design.

Lighting

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The Blood Bucket Lamp looks like it’s pouring all over your desktop, but the blood is the stem and base. Also available in a wall version, and in white if you’re squeamish. Ordering information is in Japanese.

Lamp

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This Blood Lamp doesn’t look that bloody, but the way you turn it on can be considered gruesome. It only works once, and you need to add of a drop of your blood to activate it! The idea is to stop and think about how badly you need light before you use it. Designer Mike Thompson created the lamp in order to draw attention to how much energy we waste.

Cutlery

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The Bloody Kitchen Knife is food safe, except when someone comes into the kitchen and sees you use it!

Coffee Set

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How about a 14-piece Bloody Coffee Set, complete with drops and smears? From designer Antonio Murado.

Table Linen

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With all these implements of destruction this tableware, you need a tablecloth to match. The Bloody Hand Tablecover is available through Amazon.

Table

550_imm_but_love_me_mainAlthough it wouldn’t show the bloodstains on your tableware as well as a white tablecloth, this table by John Nouanesing stands on its own very creepily. The dripping blood masks, or actually are, the table legs. He named the table “Paint or Die, But Love Me.” Sadly, it’s an art concept and not available to the public.

Candles

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Complete the look of your entertaining experience with Bleeding Pillar Candles that start out as ordinary white candles, but drip red wax as they burn!

Shower Curtain

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Don’t forget the bathroom! The Blood Bath Shower Curtain features handprints in just the right shade of red. You’ll never be able to shower without thinking of a certain Alfred Hitchcock film.

Towels

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The packaging on these towels spotted by Flickr user MShades lends a gruesome sight to your linen closet. There are towels for each blood type, sold at Loft Umeda in Japan.

Bath Mat

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Complete the murderous bathroom look with the Bloody Bath Mat. It will never look clean, or safe.

For more creepy and bloody home products, see Killer Home Decor and Morbid Home Decor. You can tell I’ve done some serious online shopping.

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Comments (49)

  1. Ewwwwwwwww! I could actually see buying the “evidence” knife and having it around (or giving it as a gift) as a joke, but the others are icky! If my son had money to waste, though, I suspect he would want a few of these things just for the effect it would have on vistors.

    posted by Hyacinth on 10-1-2009 at 10:35 am

  2. just in time for Halloween…

    posted by Anne on 10-1-2009 at 10:40 am

  3. You betcha! I love October because it gives me an excuse for creepy posts.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 10-1-2009 at 10:41 am

  4. I actually LIKE the lamps & the table. The others would be great for a Halloween or Dexter-themed party!

    posted by Colleen on 10-1-2009 at 11:04 am

  5. I love the shower and bathmat, but I don’t think my wife would go for it :(

    posted by Wayne on 10-1-2009 at 11:33 am

  6. “Designer Mike Thompson created the lamp in order to draw attention to how much energy we waste.”
    Yeah, my attention is drawn — to how much materials and energy are gobbled up PRODUCING said one-use-only item. Some conceptual pieces should really stay just as concepts.

    posted by VM on 10-1-2009 at 11:37 am

  7. I love all of this but my husband would cringe and my kids would get freaked out. SIGH

    posted by Amanda on 10-1-2009 at 12:03 pm

  8. Creepily hilarious, or hilariously creepy (yeah, I’m a Dexter fan).

    posted by Seanette on 10-1-2009 at 12:46 pm

  9. Those blood type towels are not that uncommon in Asia. A Korean friend of mine informed me that his culture takes blood type very seriously. They believe it affects your personality, somewhat like our belief in astrology. I wonder if their cliche pick up line is, “Hey baby, what’s your bloodtype?”

    posted by Alicia on 10-1-2009 at 1:24 pm

  10. I love the shower curtain, bathmat, and the candles that drip red wax. I might have to acquire some of those.

    The blood lamp is kind of cool but I agree, it’s a waste to produce something like that when it can only be used once. I’m sure there are better things we could be producing or barring that, not producing…

    posted by Melodye on 10-1-2009 at 1:52 pm

  11. The dripping lamps and tables look more like dripping paint than blood and if it wasn’t said that it was “blood” I would think it was paint. They are pretty cool though.

    posted by k on 10-1-2009 at 4:19 pm

  12. Great Post!
    Some of these items are really cool but I just couldn’t stomache seeing them everyday in my house… My roommate wouldn’t appreciate them either.

    But I love the bathmat and the chef knife..

    The porcelain ware is sooo realistic and creepy…

    posted by Chrystani on 10-1-2009 at 4:25 pm

  13. Hmm, wonder if it would be possible to make a white bathmat that is red when wet. nifty bloody footprint and random spatter features could result.

    posted by Jerad on 10-2-2009 at 9:04 am

  14. That bathmat is THE COOLEST!

    posted by Gail on 10-2-2009 at 9:37 am

  15. Jerad, that sounds like a million-dollar idea that could be used for other things as well.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 10-2-2009 at 10:23 am

  16. I love that table and those candles.I don’t think i’d want them in my house but they’re still very nice to look at.

    posted by Tina on 10-7-2009 at 8:30 am

  17. One sick mind

    posted by Gillani on 10-11-2009 at 9:41 am

  18. The blood lamp makes me think about energy use, all right. It makes me think of all the energy used to manufacture and ship this thing before it is used once and goes into the trash. Basically an expensive disposable glow-stick.

    posted by George on 11-2-2009 at 2:21 am

  19. The bathmat doesn’t really need to imply murder…. I honestly thoght about aunt flo. Me creepy? Yeah ;)

    posted by Susannie on 11-30-2009 at 12:23 pm

  20. Can I have this house? Please?

    Gah, I’d love all of this

    posted by Rk on 1-4-2010 at 2:43 am

  21. I’d love to have a house filled with this stuff! My only worry would be that if I were ever murdered or something, the police wouldn’t know what was actual evidence, and what was just the furnishings. :)

    posted by Andy on 2-22-2010 at 2:48 pm

  22. It is incredible how the majority of the comments just ignore the sickness of it all. From a european point of view, something really sucks in what seems to please the american customers. For god’s sake never let this be sold in our countries.And that Dexter serial is dreadful.

    A spaniard proud to live in a country that would not even import that crap.

    posted by George on 6-4-2010 at 1:12 pm

  23. George, stop being a puss and get a sense of humor.

    posted by Tenley on 6-20-2010 at 4:11 pm

  24. the bathroom stuff is like what i got now. halloween is a sweet holiday but honestly i have these things in my house as normal decorations i love gruesome things my house is filled with skeleton things and a bunch of stuff most people use as halloween decorations. I love it makes me feel at home….like the tea set and candles i want those every morning for the rest of my life!!!!!!!!

    posted by hellvis on 6-22-2010 at 12:51 am

  25. Just amazing design!

    posted by dorela on 6-22-2010 at 6:13 am

  26. This was Nintendo’s original plan for the NES soundtrack, but it was too expensive to ship a violinist with every console.

    posted by algdfa on 6-22-2010 at 4:17 pm

  27. @Alicia That’s funny because in california I donated blood and I got a free t-shirt that said “Are you my type?”

    posted by Meredith on 6-23-2010 at 9:36 pm

  28. The bloody tea set is nasty

    posted by Nicki on 6-24-2010 at 1:28 am

  29. What IS the matter with you lot?

    posted by Young Bat on 6-24-2010 at 12:17 pm

  30. Aahahaha! My friend would love this! She loves horror movies and slasher shows like Dexter. That tea set I could see myself buying actually, I love unusual tea wares.

    posted by Sladie on 6-25-2010 at 7:00 pm

  31. Oh George get back to your Daily Mail and don’t look @ these things if you don’t like them

    posted by Chris on 6-26-2010 at 8:32 am

  32. Where are your image credits? :-)

    I am not sure yellow on black will do for some people.

    posted by RJ Evans on 6-28-2010 at 6:33 pm

  33. All images are taken from the linked sources.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 6-28-2010 at 8:11 pm

  34. Blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood blood

    lovely yummy stuff, I could drink gallons of it, & then some.

    posted by me on 6-29-2010 at 5:57 pm

  35. My brother actually owns the shower curtain! I think it’s hilarious! Beats his old world map one haha

    posted by james on 7-10-2010 at 7:29 pm

  36. so give them,blood blood,gallons of the stuff give them all that they can drink and it will never be enough. so give them blood blood,blood, grab a glass because there’s going to be a flood.

    posted by katie-did on 8-27-2010 at 10:22 am

  37. What happened to good taste in furniture? This is creepy shit…the world today..

    posted by Loren on 9-18-2010 at 10:35 pm

  38. All so very wrong…

    posted by Rob on 9-21-2010 at 9:29 am

  39. really creepy… don’t want one of those in my flat! it’s allready scary enough in the night!

    posted by johaenna on 9-21-2010 at 10:02 am

  40. Oops! Thats really creepy. How can anybody live there?

    posted by Varun on 9-25-2010 at 3:59 pm

  41. THIS IS MY DREAM HOUSE!!!! you just made my day………

    posted by kreeystlized on 10-2-2010 at 3:06 pm

  42. “Designer Mike Thompson created the lamp in order to draw attention to how much energy we waste.”
    silly because those chemical lights require more energy to produce than producing and powering even an incadescent bulb.

    There are some interesting youtube videos demonstrating exactly how to create chemical lights in bulk and include shopping lists/prices. Even in bulk they are expensive, but sure would make cool party decos if you had the time.

    posted by Marc on 10-5-2010 at 10:39 am

  43. So, I think something’s up with StumbleUpon, because I had just finished watching the newest Dexter episode on CastTv and x-ed out of the tab to my StumbleUpon tab and hit Stumble and got this. Of course, it could be a coincidence, but I’m not fond of dismissing things as “coincidence”.

    Haha, I’m prob a bit paranoid, though.

    posted by Amzie on 10-7-2010 at 6:22 pm

  44. AWSOME!!! :) very amusing

    posted by fugu on 1-12-2011 at 5:09 pm

  45. These are a bit creepy. But I do find the blood table very awesome.

    posted by fajas colombianas on 1-20-2011 at 1:12 pm

  46. The blood type towels aren’t meant to be a gruesome thing. The Japanese think of blood type the same as Americans think of horoscopes. It’s believed to determine personality, so all kinds of different products are directed at certain blood types.

    posted by Kelly on 9-14-2011 at 8:52 pm

  47. To each their own i always say.
    but honestly I’d buy a few items love the
    tea set btw. (: along with the bathroom set.
    & im a rob zombie fan.
    house of 1,000 corpse & devils rejects,
    holloween. his music. extra.

    posted by cameemae on 9-30-2011 at 7:30 am

  48. I need this because of reasons.

    posted by JD on 11-14-2011 at 11:31 pm

  49. THE TEA SET PAGE IS 404′D. NO NO NO. I NEED THAT TEA SET IN MY LIFE!!!!!!

    posted by Martyr` on 1-24-2012 at 4:13 pm

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