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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
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
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
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
The Bloody Kitchen Knife is food safe, except when someone comes into the kitchen and sees you use it!
Coffee Set
How about a 14-piece Bloody Coffee Set, complete with drops and smears? From designer Antonio Murado.
Table Linen
With all these implements of destruction this tableware, you need a tablecloth to match. The Bloody Hand Tablecover is available through Amazon.
Table
Although 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
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
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
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
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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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
just in time for Halloween…
posted by Anne on 10-1-2009 at 10:40 am
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
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
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
“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
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
Creepily hilarious, or hilariously creepy (yeah, I’m a Dexter fan).
posted by Seanette on 10-1-2009 at 12:46 pm
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
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
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
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
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
That bathmat is THE COOLEST!
posted by Gail on 10-2-2009 at 9:37 am
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
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
One sick mind
posted by Gillani on 10-11-2009 at 9:41 am
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
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
Can I have this house? Please?
Gah, I’d love all of this
posted by Rk on 1-4-2010 at 2:43 am