5 Ways To Upgrade Your Pad, 1/26/15

Relationships take effort, and the one you have with your home is no different. To lighten the work, every week we're rounding up a crop of the latest and greatest products to keep your place on point.

Exocet Chair

This seating situation from Quebecois design firm Designarium is admittedly bizarre, but it's also the perfect setup for layabouts who can never quite get comfortable. Depending on how it's set on the ground, and whether its two ends are folded up or spread open as they are above, it's a chair, chaise, or rocker. 

Moodboard

These easily mounted magnetic hanging storage boards are made in a whole slew of sizes, with slots for special notched pegs to hang jackets, bags, and keys. You can also opt for ones threaded with rope to create a handy rack for sunglasses or gloves.
 

Carvel Chair

This naturalistic reinterpretation of the Eames Eiffel chair is fashioned from wind-felled larch wood, which is carefully molded using boat-building techniques into the scoop seat. Turning them out is so labor intensive, though, that only five will be made per year.

Tube Audio and Tube Clocks

You deserve better than relying on your iPhone as the only bedroom clock. Instead, opt for these sexy pint-sized steel, brass, and copper guys, which are perfect for a bedside table. One's equipped with a classy clock dial, the other has a Bluetooth speaker to help deliver you to dreamland while streaming bedtime playlists.

Noveltree

While you may not yet have a collection of books required to justify setting up a traditional library ladder, this hoisted shelf system gives you the next best thing, thanks to a built-in leaning ladder for you to climb up and down to retrieve whatever prized reads you choose to stash up there.


Joe McGauley is a senior editor at Supercompressor. He hasn't seen an episode of Home Improvement since it went off the air, and is totally OK with that.