Catch up with highlights from our digital travels this week…

X-rated interior design

Twinkly pink Christmas scenes, hospital cubicles and classrooms are just some of the sets captured in Jo Broughton’s Empty Porn Sets series. Look a little closer, however, and you’ll spot bottles of lube and dildos scattered across these seemingly innocent stages. Broughton began documenting porn sets after applying to be a photographer’s assistant in 1997, unaware of his X-rated subject matter. Get your fix of her images on Fastco Design.

An ode to teenage bedrooms from the 1990s

You can almost smell the adolescent angst in photographer Adrienne Salinger’s series on teenage bedrooms from the 1990s. ‘I chose teenagers because they’re on the edge of rapid change,’ she says. ‘It’s almost the last moment they’ll be living with their parents, in rooms that contain all of their possessions. The past is squeezed together on the same shelf as the future.’ Looking at the pictures nearly two decades later adds another layer of nostalgia to these brilliantly awkward scenes. See more on It’s Nice That.

Architecture blooms in the desert

Photographer Anton Repponen has uprooted New York landmarks and planted them in the desert. Among the curious cacti are SANAA’s New Museum, the MET Breuer, and Frank Gehry’s Beekman Tower. Set against the sand dunes, their angles and curves become all the more accentuated. See more on Designboom.

Mini treehouses for household plants

Don’t have a garden? Not to worry… you can still have a treehouse. LA artist Jedediah Corwyn Voltz has drawn on his 25 years of experience as a prop builder for film and TV projects to create miniature homes for household plants. ‘I try to build structures that complement the plant they’re living in, and grow with them,’ he says. So far he has created 25 of these tiny abodes, set to go on display at LA’s Virgil Normal from 23rd April. Creative Boom has more.

Visit the horrible house where Harry Potter grew up

Before Harry headed off to Hogwarts, he was forced to live in a cupboard at the home of his mean muggle relatives. To mark the 15th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’s release, set designers have recreated the living room inside No. 4 Privet Drive and the scene where the Dursleys are bombarded with letters inviting Harry to Wizard academy. The Evening Standard explores the suburban set, which will be part of the Harry Potter Warner Bros studio tour for one week only.