MOLI VIEW™

So maybe Martha Stewart started it, or rehashed it into popularity, but faux bois has never been hotter. It could be the joyous obsessiveness of Jon and Em of the great blog itsknotwood, or the fact that it's a kind of final frontier of making something that's not only real but, kind of, ubiquitous, into something that's remarkable and fake — but intentionally, as opposed to cheaply (like that melamine dresser in the low-rent hotel).

The woodgrain treatment on nearly anything gives it that touch of je ne sais quoi. Or maybe it's a kind of domestic irony: We've had irony in books, in movies, in music (hello, Shoegazer, will you make me move?), and even in clothing (schoolgirl outfit on Britney way back when). So now we have it in the house.

I love it. I love this vintage woodgrain canister being sold by Etsy's vintagemimi shop . I heart Etsy big time, and this is a great, one-of-a-kind canister you could really throw your cookies in for only $7.

Feel like some birch around your beer? Try these woodgrain-glazed mugs by McCoy, from the gloriously woodgrained 1970s, available at cyber-attic seller Hyacinth House.

And the modern-day version's on Etsy (props to itsknotwood for pointing them out), by Marmod8. Along with faux-bois-glazed star-shaped dishes and ashtrays and plates and ...

UrbanOutfitters, the pseudohipster megalopoly we love to hate, has these brilliant floor mats in Painted Floor, Log Cabin, and Distressed Wood (as well as some other, stoner textures). Not cheap, but word is they last. Nearly as long as real wood?

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