Miss Cellania
Video Game Furnishings for Your Home
by Miss Cellania - January 28, 2010 - 8:07 AM
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There are so many furnishings and household items inspired by video games that you’d think hardcore gamers must be home decorating freaks. I think it’s more likely that almost all of us would like at least one thing in our homes to represent pure fun. Or maybe two things. Here are ten possibilities.

1. Tetris Mirror

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The acrylic Tetris Mirror was designed by Soner Ozenc. This mirror can be used with all thirteen pieces fitted together or as far apart as you want to mount them. It comes with enough sticky pads to attach each piece to your wall. And it’s only £ 18.00!

2. PacM Chair

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This chair called PacM was designed by Jose Jorge Hinojosa Primo. Now there’s a cozy place to curl up in while you’re chasing ghosts on your handheld system.

3. 8-bit House Numbers

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A cool way to tell the neighbors you’re a gamer! These laser-cut 8-bit house numbers are homemade, so if you want your own, get the laser out.

4. Tetris Bathroom Tiles

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A tile supplier in England makes bathroom tiles in Tetris shapes! Pick up to seven colors for the six shapes and design your own video game bathroom or kitchen. For faster installation, they also offer sheets of mosaic tiles with preset patterns.

5. Donkey Kong Shelving

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Whoever put this Donkey Kong shelf unit together didn’t miss a detail, from the decorative shelf edging to the ladders to the monkey at the top! It will hold all your games and accessories.

6. Nintendo Controller Pillow

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There are several Etsy vendors who were selling Nintendo Controllers Pillows at one time or another, but they keep selling out! Maybe the best way to get one is to make your own, like Craftster member ViciousEdge did.

7. Space Invaders Cutting Board

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Livejournal user Captn Sideburns made a Space Invaders cutting board by assembling wood blocks just the way an 8-bit invader is pixelated. Awesome!

8. Space Invaders Lamp Shade

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You can get this Space Invaders lamp shade in either table lamp version for your bedside or ceiling lamp version so you can feel as if the invaders are dropping down toward your line of fire.

9. Ghosty Lamp

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The Ghosty Lamp from Ginepro Design comes in four pastel colors. Get one that hangs on the wall or that comes on a lamp stand for your bedside table.

10. Puckman

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From the same company, it’s Puckman, a bookcase ready to gobble up whatever else you have on the wall, such as the Ghosty lamp, or as seen in the picture, your flat screen TV.

If none of these ten game-themed home accessories strike your fancy, or even if they do, see more in The Retro Fun and Games House, 8 Awesome Videogame Quilts, and 11 Housewarming Gifts for the Dedicated Gamer.

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Comments (11)
  1. I’ve never seen those ghosty lamps before. You always find furnishings and household items that are awesome and nerdy. Thanks, Miss Cellania!

  2. First apple released the iPad (wish they called it the iSlate) and now you give me the coolest home furnishing ideas when I finally get my own apartment (hopefully when i graduate from college this spring) Curse you Miss Cellenia! :-)

  3. Love the Tetris mirror. Also love the Donkey Kong shelves but can’t see it being used without much frustration.

  4. I can’t even deal with how much I want the Tetris mirrors!

    I recently purchased the Tetris iPhone game only to be sorely disappointed when it didn’t play the original music.

    Sniff. I guess I’ll just have to hum it.

  5. To be fair Miss C – the Donkey Kong shelves are missing two details – Mario/Jumpman and the princess.

  6. I think I’ll quit my job and become a professional tiler just to spend my days getting paid to fit Tetris shapes together in different color schemes. That would fufill so many of my dreams.

  7. i absolutely love the donkey kong shelves….it also shows the evolution of nintendo with the NES at the bottom, followed by super nintendo and then the nintendo 64, nice touch!

  8. I love the Tetris tiles. Every time I play a lot of Tetris and I use a public restroom, I start mentally picturing the tiles dropping while I rearrange them…so tiles that are designed to do exactly that would be great :)

  9. Oh, Miss C, you’ve done it again! I love me some DOnkey Kong shelving

  10. Check out what we did with our bathroom.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizcroteau/sets/72157623143821913/

    Travertine and glass tile. Pretty, yet nerdtastic. :)

  11. Liz, that is AWESOME!

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