Wow, that is really a unique idea. Love it.

Nice, but something about it screams retail to me.

Well done. Creative and unique!

CLEVER!

I think they look like a transporter accident.

Jose A is correct, looks like an Antropologie display. It is beautifully done though.

Is there any way to find out what paint was used for that wall? Is the EXACT color I've been looking for!

SO COOL but definitely too visual merchandise-y.

Beautiful, and though I could definitely see it in a shop window, I don't think that really reflects negatively on it at all. Looks awesome, and I would definitely want that in my house.

Oh no! Those poor suitcases...not a fan of upcycle. Even dislike the word.

Not a fan of destroying perfectly good vintage items. : (

And that sidetable please? LOOOOOVE!!

Thinking of your home in terms of a retail vignette is not such a bad idea. I have seen old suitcases used a lot in interior design. In fact, I have some in my own home. This is by far the most creative application I have ever seen. It looks GREAT!

As someone who uses vintage suitcases as - gulp - SUITCASES, the hacking up of a perfectly usable piece makes me cringe.

Full disclosure: I only use the vintage suitcases when I'm on a driving trip. If I have to haul a suitcase any distance, I want wheels on it.

That said, vintage cases provide a rigidity, a structure that I really need when traveling and staying where I don't want to (or can't) transfer the contents to drawers and shelves.

I love the domino knobs on the sideboard. Very cool. I've got some spare Mah Jong tiles that need a project ...

Take me Now!

If they were slightly open, you could even store things inside...

One of those ideas that sounds ridiculous but looks great!

That is so cool!

Ki's very talented, but at times her cleverness gets the better of her.
This is one of those times.

I like it but I'm thinking maybe just one would be fine. Perhaps just inside the front door to dump my keys and sunglasses on?

I'm waiting for FYNCT to blog this. I prefer that laughing-head-thing to the suitcases, one maybe but a wall of them? No thanks.

hate seeing vintage suitcase cut up like this. :(

This reminds me of the suitcase display at baggage claim at Sea-Tac airport. All these lovely, vintage suitcases spikes on a pole.

A lovely idea but you hate to see the suitcases cut up.

This is very funny, but it ends up looking like suitcase taxidermy.

Just saw the same thing on a restaurant remodel on a resent episode of Kitchen Nightmares. hm.

I have mixed feelings. It's sort of cool, and having seen probably thousands of "vintage suitcases" in my flea marketing and hating them all, I'm not disturbed at the carnage... but fat shelves that are by themselves large decorative items before you use them as shelves just kind of bother me, regardless of what they are made from. It's clever, but maybe that isn't enough... (Then again, enough folks here like them that I guess, for them, it is.)

OK, well I like the idea, if you can get them from the op shop / thrift shop, but the waste of that inside space was bothering me so I thought, "why not put hinges on the bottom part of the cases then, when you undid the clasps, you'd have a bottom shelf, too." That, I could live with.