No time for Monday blues in the mydeco office as we are dutifully ignoring our post-Halloween headaches and  scouring the world-wide-web to find the best design stories for your enjoyment. (Warning: story two might be best avoided if you are still feeling a little queasy from weekend excursions!)

mydeco’s pick of the top three news stores:

1. dornob: 10 Cool Lifeguard Towers Could be Converted Beach Homes
Whilst these little seaside towers are not ideal for the claustrophobic, the ingenuity of design is simply fabulous, and perhaps the perfect untapped resource for travellers looking for ocean views without the inevitable mark-up in price. My favourite is the pastel-coloured postmodern conversion pictured below. It might be lacking in toilet facilities, but hey, the ocean is right there…

Image credit: dornob

2. dornob: Mural Artwork on Acid: Surreal Optical Illusion Architecture

Contrary to first impressions, this dizzying image is not the result of a photoshopper-gone-mad, but a snippet of what is actually a full-building mural in Paris. Created by mixing real-life perspectives with artistic distortions, all the windows and details are actually 2-d paintings, but so realistic is the illusion that it is almost impossible to distinguish where the real building begins. Funhouse or visual nightmare? You decide.

Image Credit: dornob

3. MoCo Loco: A very slim table by Nilly Landao

Perhaps the most sensible of our chosen news stories today, this unique table offers a solution to those of you who have an appetite for dining with family and friends, but not necessarily the space. Personally I’m not sure the design would be sturdy enough to hold my preferred mammoth-sized portions, but it would certainly put a stop to me putting my elbows on the table!

Image credit: MoCo Loco

The best of the rest:

dornob: Classic Storybook Home Designs that Really came to Life

The Independent:  Home interiors: The exhibitionist’s shopping list

The Times: The next Versace

MoCo Loco: Glass microbiology by Luke Jerram

MoCo Loco: Reinventing the videotape

The Guardian: Off the wall

The Guardian: Three simple craft ideas for your garden

The Telegraph:  The perfect Mayfair bachelor pad

Hope you enjoy our chosen stories as much as I have enjoyed writing my first mydeco blog, even though it did take me an unreasonable 5 hours to do it! Maybe tomorrow I’ll manage to get it out before lunch. Watch this space…