Mystery household items: can you guess what they are?

Novelty homewares are a good laugh and they make great secret santa gifts. 

But at the end of the day you’d still like to be able to use them. 

Bring out any of these 15 kooky yet practical items to impress your dinner guests. 

Are you able to guess what these home items actually are? 

This looks more like jewellery than something you’d use in your kitchen, but it is in fact a bottle opener.

“What is THAT!?” you hear someone nearby in the store exclaim.

When you find out it’s a table lamp you want it immediately.  

Hive ‘Waf’ table lamp from Hermon and Hermon. 

This pizza cutter speeds through a pizza like a hipster speeding through a laneway. 

DOIY Fixie pizza cutter from Until. 

 

This 
iconic juicer looks like something out of War of the Worlds. 

Philippe Starck ‘Juicy Salif’ juicer from
Alessi. 

 

This incarnation of Herbie the Lovebug may not have blue and white stripes, but it does make a pretty cool lamp. 

Herbie love car lamp, 
sixthings.com

 

Unfortunately you can’t wear this one on your head. But you can drain some ace vegetables with it – it’s a colander. 

 

 

DOIY bowler hat colander from 
Until. 

Make a super high-tech cuppa with this tea infuser.  

Faye Ligui​ tea infuser from DNS home & gifts.

This happy little cactus character is a lovely juicer. 

PO: Selected cactus juicer from DNS home & gifts. 

 

This protractor isn’t for maths, it’s for cutting delicious pizza! 

Suck UK protractor pizza cutter by 
Until.

These salt and pepper shakers are guaranteed to get spun around on the table. ‘Toupie’ salt shaker and pepper shakers by Design House

 

This wonderful silicon city is a dish rack by Luca Nichetto​ from
Seletti.  

This slightly eerie alien is just a sugar castor, so you can relax. 

Gino Zucchino​ sugar castor from
Alessi.

Nope, it’s not actually a paper bag – it’s a glorious vase from
Resident GP. 

 

Not a dangerous weapon, just an apple spiraller.  

Mono Giro stainless steel apple slicer from 
The Design Gift Shop.

It resembles a boxer’s punching bag, but it’s actually a bag for all your plastic bags. 

Aussiemite plastic bag bag by Kirsten Haworth Textiles Australia.