There’s no actual limit when it comes to decorating your home. You can make it as minimalistic or as quirky as you’d like. The more of your personality you put into your home design, the more it becomes unique. If you want to decorate your home in odd and wonderful ways, you can incorporate some strange decor trends into your home makeover. Whether you want to decorate with mushroom lamps, mirrored ceilings, or melted candlesticks and giant garden gnomes on stilts, the creative choices are endless.
Cloud Sofas
The sky is not the limit for incorporating fun, quirky sofas. Purchase a cloud sofa or a fluffy, oversized couch resembling floating clouds. Cloud sofas are comfortable, stylish, and supportive, and because they’re large and fluffy, they look fantastic in high-traffic areas in your room where many guests congregate.
Melted Furniture
If A Clockwork Orange is one of your favorite movies, you’ll love decorating your home with melted furniture. These chairs and tables are designed to appear dripping or melting as if they’re sitting in an oven and baking right before your eyes. This adds an ethereal, surreal element to your design while being functional. You can decorate with melted couches, tables, or chairs.
Hand-Shaped Chairs
Incorporate seating shaped like giant hands into your home for an artistic, surrealist element. Because of its whimsical shape, the hand-shaped chair will never go out of style and is a fresh decorative piece that will surprise every generation. You can use a neutral color like gold or silver or incorporate a bright, vibrant, bold color like pink or green.
Bubble Furniture
Because bubbles look fun and playful, incorporating couches and lamps with pillowy, inflated designs is a fun way to spice up your space and add a funky and fresh design. This furniture will create a focal point in your room, and if you add a bubble couch, it promotes relaxation and comfort through unconventional design.
Wavy & Curvy Tables
Stray away from modernism and clean, straight lines and incorporate wavy and curvy tables instead. These rippled, free-form coffee tables defy straight lines and add a quirky, fun, playful aesthetic to your space. Curved, rounded furniture feels more relaxing and comforting than straight-lined, rigid furniture.
Mushroom Lamps
Deck your space out with funky, retro-inspired table lamps shaped like mushrooms. This goes beyond the norm, inviting natural focal points to act as conversation starters. Adding mushroom lamps is also a fun way to bring a natural element into your home that differs from standard greenery and plants. The sculptural silhouettes and soft, dimmed lighting will warm your space and make it feel cozier.
Neon Signs with Odd Phrases
Decorating your space with funky conversation starters is an excellent way to add your personality. Custom neon signs with absurd or funny sayings that are relatable and make people laugh are a great way to do this. There’s always room for custom and handmade pieces in your home. Neon signs will also naturally light up your space at night, making your home feel more inviting.
Lava Lamps (but Giant)
Instead of adding small lava lamps to your home that blend into the corner of your space, take it a step further and incorporate floor-to-ceiling versions of the classic lava lamp. Not only will this make your space glow in a warm, funky light and feel warm and inviting, but it acts as a retro-futuristic focal point that’s nostalgic and timeless. Nothing will remind you more of childhood in the 20th century than a lava lamp!
Glow-in-the-Dark Chandeliers
Think outside the box and incorporate glow-in-the-dark chandeliers. Everyone has their typical crystal chandelier, so add a bit of funky playfulness by adding one with a unique personality. These elegant light fixtures charge up during the day and glow at night, so your space always has a comforting, inviting aesthetic.
Oversized Animal Lamps
Adding animal elements to your space is a unique way to bring nature inside from the outside. For example, you can incorporate elephant, giraffe, or flamingo-shaped light fixtures to create a retro-futuristic design that’s funky and fresh. You can also use lamps of your favorite animals or various animals to make it feel like you’re in the forest or mountains.
Ceiling Murals
You can get creative when it comes to building ceiling murals. If you have high, dome-shaped ceilings, you can incorporate painted night skies, galaxies, or even Renaissance-inspired frescoes. Frescoes work well in rooms with elegant, sophisticated aesthetics, while night skies and galaxies work well in rooms with cozier, warmer aesthetics.
Puffy Wall Panels
Engage your senses by incorporating cushioned, squishy wall coverings for a unique tactile experience. This is a fun way to add a touch to your home design in ways other than blankets and seating areas. Puffy wall panels are great additions to kid’s playrooms and even yoga or meditation rooms where you want a cozy, relaxing atmosphere.
3D Wall Art That Moves
You don’t have to wait to visit museums to see lenticular prints that shift as you walk past; you can incorporate them into your home design. For example, you could add this wall art to your living room as a gallery wall that acts as a focal point. You have complete creative leeway here and can use any shape or size of 3D wall art
Faux Grass Walls
If you live a busy lifestyle and don’t have time to care for plants, you can decorate your space with vertical gardens or artificial grass-covered walls indoors. These are easy to install and don’t need attention after they’re in place. They’re a fun way to liven up your space and add relaxing, calming greenery.
Mirrored Ceilings
Mirrors reflect light and make rooms feel more extensive and airy. You can create a dramatic, reflective take on ceiling decor by decorating with mirrored ceilings. Mirrored ceilings will make your space seem more significant, creating the illusion of depth.
Googly Eye Decor
Bring your furniture to life by giving them eyes! You can add giant googly eyes to furniture and walls for a playful, funky, odd touch that’s out of the norm. You’ve probably played with googly eyes as a kid, so adding them to your furniture will be a memorable touch and evoke a feeling of nostalgia. You can also add googly eyes to your trees and bushes outside to extend them to your backyard.
Giant Fruit Pillows
The bright, colorful decor brings a cheery, happy, and excitable aesthetic to your home, so cushions shaped like oversized bananas, oranges, or strawberries make an excellent addition to a quirky home. If you have kids, this might be the best way to get them to love eating fruits. They also make comfortable body pillows for movie nights!
Mismatched Everything
Most home decorators want you to match everything correctly. But you can go in the opposite direction and intentionally use furniture and decor in wildly different styles. Mismatching everything gives your home a warm, cozy, inviting aesthetic, making you, your family, and your guests feel like they can take off their shoes, sit back, and relax. It also creates visual depth, various focal points, and individuality, so your room will never feel boring or monotonous.
Trompe-l’œil Rugs
Decorate your space with funky optical illusion carpets that look like holes, staircases, or puddles. These unique, custom pieces will act as focal points and conversation starters. These rugs are a great way to showcase your quirky personality, and you can choose a rug as strange and outlandish as you’d like.
Dollhouse-Inspired Decor
Grab little lifesized dolls and furniture and make your childhood dreams come true! Decorate with dollhouse furniture pieces styled for full-sized homes. This is an odd and funky way to bring your home to life by creating fun scenes with dolls and furniture that act as focal points and bring a strange visual depth to your home.
Wobbly and Fun Dishware
Incorporating wobbly dishware or dishware with funky patterns makes your home feel more inviting, less rigid, and more exciting. Use plates and bowls with uneven, organic shapes or strange patterns as dishware instead of your standard dishware. This will also make eating more entertaining, and you might even convince your kids to eat their vegetables if they’re eating them out of fun bowls and plates!
Absurdly Oversized Cutlery
Oversized wall furniture works wonders in homes with quirky and strange designs. Incorporate wall decor featuring giant forks, knives, and spoons for a cohesive, funky look that ties together your kitchen and living room. This is also a great option if you have a deep love for food, as cutlery symbolizes this, as well as health and prosperity.
Illusion Dining Tables
Give your guests the gift of illusion with glass tables that appear to “float” or balance on unlikely objects. These eye-opening designs will elevate your dinner parties by creating natural focal points and conversation starters. They will also soften the room’s look and give the illusion of space by making the tables appear detached.
Surreal Teapots & Mugs
Drinking your morning coffee from a mug with a funny, weird, wacky face is a great way to start your day! To bring the weird and wonderful to your home decor, decorate with drinkware with unexpected handles, legs, or faces that bring a smile to your face. You’re bringing Alice in Wonderland straight to your home.
Melted Candlesticks
Incorporate candles that seem constantly dripping, adding a unique touch, warm ambiance, and inviting space to your home. These candles differ from regular candles because they make your home feel cozy. There’s a reason old libraries have melted candlesticks surrounded by books; there’s something surreal and appealing about them.
Bed on a Cloud (Suspended Beds)
Jump onto your cloud bed by suspending it from the ceiling and turning it into a bed on a cloud. These floating beds that hang from the ceiling need ample support. They’ll gently rock you to sleep. Fill your bed with plush, fluffy blankets and pillows to make it feel soft as if sleeping on a large cloud. Even though you won’t want to store anything underneath the bed, it’ll make your room feel more spacious since it’s not taking up floor space.
Pillow Fort Beds
Bring your childhood dreams to life and decorate your space with a pillow fort bed! These fully cushioned, soft-walled beds offer ultimate coziness and privacy. You can build a pillow fort bed using a combination of different sheets, pillows, and blankets from around your home. Building a pillow fort bed is an excellent way to showcase your personality through your chosen patterns and colors.
Rainbow Showerheads
Bring bright and vibrant colors to your shower by incorporating LED showerheads that change colors whenever you use them! You can have a blue, pink, green, and yellow neon-colored shower with these showerheads. There’s no way-showers will ever feel monotonous or boring anymore if you’re making it feel like a neverending dance party.
Goldfish Sink Basins
In your bathroom, opt for a handpainted, artistic sink. Use glass-bottom sinks with water and decorative fish inside for a quirky statement piece. Decorate the rest of your room with goldfish photographs and orange accent pieces that blend with the sink and make your space feel cohesive.
Toilet Paper Art Holders
Add TP dispensers shaped like funny figures or animals to your bathroom. Use brass, gold, or stainless steel dispensers. Make sure these dispensers are large enough to slip a toilet paper roll over them and still see the shape of the art holder. Depending on the shape of the toilet paper holder, it might act as a conversation starter and get your guests to laugh.
Themed Bathtubs
Incorporate unusual tubs, such as hollowed-out giant teacups or gemstone-shaped soakers, like amethyst or topaz, into your bathroom. Decorate the rest of your bathroom with accent pieces that give your space a cohesive aesthetic. If you have a giant teacup bathtub, use more miniature teacups and towels printed with teacups to decorate the rest of your space.
Fairy Garden Balconies
To give your home a fairytale feel, decorate your balcony with tiny doors, woodland creatures, mushrooms, fairy statues, and fairy lights. Place them around the balcony to make it look like a scene from a fairytale movie. Light up the fairy lights at night to create a surreal, ethereal aesthetic that makes the statues seem to come to life.
Garden Gnomes on Stilts
If you add garden gnomes on stilts to your front and backyard, your home will be the most talked about house on the block. Use extra-tall gnomes for an unexpected and strange twist on tradition. Place them so they’re towering over your shrubs and gardens, making them seem like giants taking over your yard. These statues come in various poses, so you can spice it up and turn it into a movie scene.