Misprinted Metal Cans Turned Into Kitschy Cool Home Decor Elements

Vivaterra is proving that perfection is not nearly as important as practicality with their cleverly cool line of assorted "misprint(ed)" household objects crafted from metal product containers (whether soda, tomato juice or assorted canned veggies) that either walked away from the factory belt with a typo or other slight design flaw on them.

Apparently, mistakes on the printing press occur a lot more often than you'd think.

As a result, perfectly valuable yet cosmetically flawed pieces of metal inked with a comma out of place or a slight logo imperfection used to be discarded before people realized that they could take on a new, equally desirable application.

It turns out that there's a hot market for goofy things like misprinted pennies and ugly Barbie dolls, so instead of chucking the not so perfect metal mishaps from canning factories, they've been transformed into some interesting household objects such as lanterns, watering cans, wastebaskets, shelving and the like.

This is a greenie's decorating dream...but I think that it also appeals to anyone who is artsy or loves things that are a little left of center.

Vivaterra asked their designer to brainstorm original ways to reuse these metal remnants, and they came up with a handy $35 11" deep x 12" high Misprint Waste Can, a $29 Misprint Watering Can, $59 Morroccan style Misprint Hanging Lanterns, and a $59 12" wide x 3.5" deep x 24" high vividly hued Misprint Magazine Rack.

In the past, they've even sold these cool flatwear pieces adorned with misprinted metal handles!