If you were always impressed by the startled, insomniac fish swimming in the walls of any number of try-hard inner-city nightclubs, or perhaps by Karl Stromberg’s decorating in The Spy Who Loved Me then today’s your day to bring the ‘fish in the walls’ look to your very own apartment.

Okay, so there’s a couple of catches. It’s not the wraparound floor-to-ceiling look that a true nightclub boss or evil genius really prefers, and it kinda hangs on the wall like a painting, rather than becoming the walls, like in Stromberg’s hideout.

But it’s a start. And costs several million dollars less than building a underwater mansion that rises magically out of the sea on demand.

Wall Aquarium [via Cool Buzz]

Showing up to a party or a restaurant with your wine in a brown paper bag from the liquor store is no way to impress. Bringing it in a fake violin case, however, is a different story.

Threaten your enemies and hassle shopkeepers for protection money on the way if you like – if you’re all dressed up, but nowhere near a concert hall, everyone will just assume you’re a 1930’s gangster.

The leather, velvet-lined case actually raises more questions than it answers, however, such as:

• Is velvet a good insulator? (And will it deal well with condensation?);
• During the prohibition, do you think they carried booze around like this? (And were there ever tense moments between drunks and mobsters?); and
• Why does the online shop sell them by the dozen?

But we like it. Especially the ** LIQUOR NOT INCLUDED ** disclaimer. You need to spell these things out. Like, who wants to mislead the Mob?

Violin Bottle Carrier [via Liquor Snob]

If you’re sick of living in a cramped apartment in the middle of the city (or even a slightly spacious house in the middle of the suburbs), have you ever considered an enormous castle in the middle of nowhere?

Forbes is running a feature on the growing real estate market for castles, be they medieval or brand new, and the list of features available is nothing short of, well, baffling:

It is not unusual to find a castle that offers 40 or more bedrooms, but only two bathrooms, and has central heating in only one inhabitable wing of the castle…

That still sounds a lot better than our crummy house, however. Throw in a dungeon, a moat and some turrets and we’re sold!

Castles For Sale [Forbes]