Eight Crazy Decor Items for Your Wacky Taste

Chinese online shopping is a journey all of its own – there’s no doubt about that. We have scoured shopping apps like Pin Duo Duo and Taobao to bring you some of the wackiest home decor items out there. 

These items are sure to scratch your whimsical (or for some, horror-loving) taste. Now, some of these may look more like something you'd display for Halloween, but as the photos show, they're great home decor no matter the time of year! 

Pro tip: If you want to buy any of these items, just save the picture and use the image search feature on your preferred shopping app.

1. The Hand Claw Key Hanger

Get rid of that normal key hanger you got from that antique shop in the hutongs. Pfft! Who needs a boring key hanger anyway? Get something that is sure to scare someone hanging up their keys as they come through the door. The black eagle human hybrid claw is sure to get everyone’s attention. You can keep it low key – pun intended – with the black nail polish or go extra and get one with gold on black. This would also be a great conversation starter – good luck justifying that taste on a date though! 

2. Pink, Gold, Black Incense Smoker Lady

If you are into trippy bohemian decor, this might just be your jam! You stuff the back of this ceramic statue’s head with incense and she looks like this sassy smoking woman. The fact that it comes in gold, pink, brown and white is just the cherry on top. A very sassy piece of decor, this one is definitely going to enrich that mantle piece with lots of “I don’t give a damn” energy, and we sure could use more of that in our life. 

3. Anatomical Heart Vases … Apparently

Because who needs those PG-13 hearts, right? The cute ones that you can draw without lifting your pen? Boring! We need it raw and real with actual atria and ventricles. We need real veins to pop out and maybe some theatrical blood to really seal the deal. The lovely piece of home decor is sure to shock your friends and visitors. It comes in an array of colors such as white, red, Barbie pink and gold – whatever color palette matches your aesthetic! 

4. Squidward From the Underworld

Channel your love for SpongeBob in ways you had never thought before. Brace yourself for the greatest piece of intriguing decor you will lay your eyes on. Its kraken tentacles look just like the ones that take Jack Sparrow’s boat down. Literally. It's just tentacles without a head, and that’s all the mystery you’ll need. The perfect centerpiece to any table, these tentacles will add a very real feel to every seafood dinner, if you dare have one around it. 

5. Raven With a Wire in Its Beak?

Any Edgar Allen Poe or Damon Salvatore fan is sure to fall in love with this one because why wouldn’t you need a raven holding the wire of a little light in its beak while you sleep … alone in your apartment … on a windy night … in a foreign country. What could possibly scare you? It’s like your own piece of childhood trauma sitting right beside you, casting all sorts of thoughts in your mind for less than RMB 50!

6. The Millennial Heart Phone Holder

Gen Z will not relate, but this phone holder does your childhood justice. THAT IS HOW YOU MAKE A HEART. PERIOD. None of this pinching your thumb and fingers together rubbish! To prove a point, you could keep one at your desk and one at home just in case. The Mickey Mouse-ish hands not only hold your phone for you but also remind you how very dearly you are loved and that it’s okay to be a little weird. 

7. Skull, but Also a Heart?

Do you just love anatomy? Human anatomy, specifically? Can’t live without it? Want it in your house, but there are too many parts? Chinese shopping apps have got you. This brings two of our favorite things in one. A heart morphing into a skull because who cares if the skeleton and cardiac muscles can, in no universe or dimension, do that! We make our own anatomy, and this is how we like it. Let that heart sit where the brain ought to be; it’s deeper than most would understand anyway! 

8. Eyes on the Prize (or Hand)!

So you are into creepy claw-like hands, but that is not where this ends. You want it dark and gothic. Yes, okay! Noted. That is not all? You want the hand to do what? You want it to hold an eyeball? A green eyeball? Okay… Done! Voilà! Presenting you another work of art, the figment of some gothic artistic genius.

Apart from the great laugh you had, it might be a great gift idea for a friend or family member who has, let's say, more unusual tastes, or a conversation starter to feature in your own home! Either way, happy shopping and cheers to the absolute craziness that are Chinese shopping apps! 

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Images: Canva, Taobao, Pin Duo Duo