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You know that guy that your “friend” dated who seemed so perfect, then she found out it was all a façade and he didn’t actually mean a word he’d ever said? Yeah, that guy. Or that girl whose face looked like it had been spackled and sanded? Well, those fakes you probably don’t really want in your life, but these you might—they’re interesting twists on everyday objects created by faking the originals with other materials and purposes.

Hard and Soft

Groupo Bondi’s Concrete Pouf recently featured on MocoLoco looks just like a soft upholstered ottoman down to the fabric pattern, buttons, and folds of fabric. Of course, it’s really concrete, so you won’t be sliding it over in front of sofa for a movie, unless you’ve been hitting the gym a bit too much.

Trap Doors

Another clever fake, this trompe l’oeil rug highlighted by Dezeen from the launch of Maison Martin Margiela’s interiors line moves doors to the floor. This rug doesn’t just look like something else—it also plays with space by moving a vertical element onto a horizontal surface, and turns something that functions into something purely decorative.

Hardwood Floors

If a French atelier’s rug isn’t so much in your budget, Urban Outfitters has also jumped on the fake trend this year with some floor and wall décor that are a little more accessible to the average homeowner with their trompe l’oeil floor mats. Available in several photorealistic versions of wood, as well as bamboo and stone, the mats transpose another floor material onto your own.

Peeling Walls

An alternative to wallpaper and decals, wall murals can be hideous (think bad mall paintings on a massive scale—actually, please don’t), but they can also be fantastic fakes blown up big. Modern Murals, one of the purveyors of realistic murals, offers murals of not just simple clear images, but also of hard-to-identify textures like wood and peeling paint, which can totally change up your boring drywall.