Development Watch: Lenny Kravitz to Work His Magic on Revamped Condo High-Rise

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Friday, May 13, 2011, by Sarah Firshein

Downtown Miami condo building Paramount Bay is being given a second chance at life thanks to new owners iStar and ST Residential, which jointly rescued the building from foreclosure and are enacting an epic new sales and marketing scheme with developer Fortune International. It's almost as if the three collectively said, "It ain't over 'til it's over" and then: "Heaven help." Sound familiar? No? Yes? Well, there's a reason to this business of tossing around Lenny Kravitz song titles on this fine Friday afternoon; specifically, the rockstar-turned-interiors guy will handle the design of the 47-story, 340-unit waterfront tower.

Of course, Kravitz (and his firm, Kravitz Design) is no stranger to the area, having designed spaces for the Setai Hotel and The Delano. We're told sales at Paramount Bay will be begin in fall (prices have not yet been confirmed). So what can future residents expect from Kravitz's interior design in their (surely) swank new digs? Per the reps: "The team will deliver a fresh take on their modern, sophisticated and sexy style to the 47-story bay front tower. Residents can expect a look that is reminiscent of Kravitz's own eclectic global lifestyle."

Will rooms have "Black Velveteen," perhaps, or "A New Door?" What about "Silver and Gold" or "Lonely Rainbows" pained on the walls? Please, someone make us stop!

· Lenny Kravitz, Lover of Louche, Decorates Like a Rock Star [Curbed National]
· Paramount Bay [official site]
· Kravitz Design [official site]
· Songs [Lenny Kravitz]

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Video Interlude: Watch a Revamped Ikea Coffee Table Function as a Toy Train Set

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, April 19, 2011, by Sarah Firshein

With a boring glass top and a run-of-the-mill knick-knack drawer, Ikea's white LIATORP coffee table is approximately $279 worth of blandness. So what did one person do? Turn the entire thing into a showcase for an N Scale Model Train Set. The move was a labor of love by a Sacramento, Calif., guy named Jaxan, who threw caution to the wind and painted his LIATORP black. He then used a Web program called AnyRail to design a veritable locomotive diorama with cars, rails, houses, and detailed landscaping. "Since this was my first attempt," he ever-so-humbly writes, "I spent a little more than I probably would have liked but I think it was worth it." Jump for some video closeups.

VIDEO: Ikea Toy Train Set:

· LIATORP Coffee Table [Ikea]
· Coffee Table Train Set [IKEA Hackers via Freshome]
· N Scale Train Set in Ikea Coffee Table [YouTube via Freshome]

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