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Forget looking in the mirror. Check yourself out in every room with these custom decor finds.We can all probably think of some awful personalized home items -- photos on mouse pads or snow globes anyone? So we can understand your hesitation in decorating your home with items featuring...well, yourself. But we found several tasteful (and super cool!) ways to incorporate your favorite family photos into your home. Turns out that your face can personalize just about anything, from your kitchen to your office!
Photo: Pearl Bell
Custom decor for your...kitchen!
Artist Pearl Bell customizes plates and cup & saucer sets with any images you provide. Her work fuses charcoal pencil-like drawings with bursts of color to produce really fun, personal tableware. Customized items can be ordered online, just upload the picture you want featured. Her passion is drawing faces, so you know her work is stellar! Her stock collection is full of amazing, expressive visages worth scoping out.
Custom decor for your...table!
Your face can be made of glass, thanks to artist Christopher Jagmin. His collection features all kinds of expressive words and letters, but we love these two-tone silhouettes. Customized, of course! Just send your picture to him and he hand-paints the image onto glass. The bold color and silhouette detail makes his artwork a customized home decor must!
Your face as customized stationary
Hanna Nation is the designer behind GADABOUT, a brand offering custom designs for web and branding. We're crazy about GADABOUT's stationary -- which has stock prints ready to order -- but also customizes cards with images, including faces. Nation illustrates the logo to create your ideal image. Talk about self branding! Customized home office paper is a personal gift to treat yourself to for a birthday, graduation or promotion!
Custom design a handkerchief with your face!
Artist Shabd Simon-Alexander has a website full of delicate, water-color scarves and an extensive list of high-end retailers. But only online can you get one of his custom embroidered items. Perfect as a wedding, birthday, or anniversary gift, Simon-Alexander's handkerchiefs are hand-embroidered based on an image supplied by the customer. Depending on what his clients want, they can supply him with a handkerchief, or just provide him with a style preference. Either way, the custom artwork is a one-of-a-kind gift or decor item. We love the idea of framing these handkerchiefs as art.
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