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Axo Light is 30% Off All May!

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Axo Light is 30% Off All May!

You like what you see up there? Of COURSE you do. Axo Light’s modern lighting fixtures are sassy and sexy and would look amazing in any room of your house. So stop reading this dumb blog post that’s telling you Axo Light is 30% off until the end of May — Continue reading

Tiny Modern Dreams: Leaf House

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Tiny Modern Dreams: Leaf House

Does anyone else ever fantasize about running away to some remote yet gorgeous landscape with a teeny tiny modern home, small enough to pull with a truck? We can’t be the only one, which is why we occasionally drool over the website, Tiny House Listings. One day. In the mean — Continue reading

Michelle Armas’ Cheery and Colorful Paintings

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Michelle Armas’ Cheery and Colorful Paintings

Wow! Love loving Michelle Armas’ bold and bright modern fine art paintings. Energetic and cheerful, they really infuse the viewer with a sense of optimism. And the colors are superb: lots of warm reds, yellows and oranges mix with greens and more. Abstract and modern, drips mingle with slight geometric — Continue reading

DIY: Felted Box Storage Thingy

Categories: DIY + How To
DIY: Felted Box Storage Thingy

We’d be lying if we said we could completely understand what’s going on with this DIY project; the site we found it on is in Portuguese and Google Translator isn’t working its best work today. Like, we’re not entirely sure where you get a giant piece of gray felt…maybe you — Continue reading

Sleek & Slideable: Whangapoua Sled House

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Sleek & Slideable: Whangapoua Sled House

Crosson Clark Carnachan Architects hit one out of the ball park with their cute and clever Whangapoua Sled House. We just love modern design that isn’t huge; that’s a reasonable size but still has everything you need and looks great. Located on a white sand beach on New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula, — Continue reading

Rabih Hage: The Leftover Collection

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Rabih Hage: The Leftover Collection

Not sure how we missed this when all the Milan design week excitement was going on, but we just discovered interior designer and architect Rabih Hage’s “The Leftover Collection” for Corian® Colour Evolution. Used to promote the new colors available for this material, Hage used leftover pieces from building to — Continue reading

Row Studio’s Rainbow Wax Revolution Polanco

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Row Studio’s Rainbow Wax Revolution Polanco

I’d consider getting waxed for this! Located in the upscale neighborhood of Polanco, Mexico City, this is the second branch of Wax Revolution, a new epilation chain based in Mexico. As you can see, this space is bold, angled, colorful and not what you usually think of when you imagine — Continue reading

Helen and Garson’s Hertfordshire Home

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Helen and Garson’s Hertfordshire Home

You know, as much as we love drooling over stunningly modern homes that only the very luckiest and richest few could probably afford, we also enjoy loving on a home that is totally accessible! You can say that’s our whole raison d’etre here at 2Modern — showing you that modern, — Continue reading

2Modern’s EXPLODING with Newness!

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2Modern’s EXPLODING with Newness!

Introducing new lower prices, new products and new limited edition fluorescent colors from Fatboy! Brighten any room with these new limited edition Fluorescent colors available in theFatboy Junior, and Fatboy Point. We are pleased to introduce Areaware on 2Modern. Areaware is a New York City based producer of everyday objects that are both functional — Continue reading

Raymond Lemstra’s Primative Robots

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Raymond Lemstra’s Primative Robots

“In childhood, one encounters and experiences many things for the first time. Through curiosity and imagination, these moments are lifted to almost magical heights. As you get older, new impressions become more scarce and it’s a rare experience to be surprised by anything. I try to bring back the sense — Continue reading

Owhanake Bay House by Strachan Group

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Owhanake Bay House by Strachan Group

Life MUST be difficult for whoever lives in the Owhanake Bay House in Waiheke Island, New Zealand designed by Strachan Group Architects. It’s like they’re living in some desolate prison yard. Yuck…NOT. “Located on Waiheke Island, a 19km ferry journey from down-town Auckland, the Owhanake Bay house hunkers-down below a ridge — Continue reading

Get Geared Up for Summer With Fatboy!

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Get Geared Up for Summer With Fatboy!

International awesome experts Fatboy have LOWERED prices, introduced new products like the neccessary-for-everyone Fatboy Metallic SoulBag and Fatboy Headdemock Pillow and, perhaps most excitingly, introduced LIMITED EDITION fluorescent for their Fatboy Junior and Fatboy Point, like fluorescent orange and yellow! What are you waiting for?!

Ridiculously Easy DIY Detail: Painted Legs!

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Ridiculously Easy DIY Detail: Painted Legs!

You ready for it? You ready for the simplest, kind of silly, incredibly adorable detail to add to your home to make your place different than anyone else’s? To make it stand out in the quirkiest of ways? Really ready? Okay: Paint your furniture legs! Eep! If you’re graphically talented, — Continue reading

Expanding Living Spaces

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Expanding Living Spaces

At a recent UK exhibition we came across an innovative and stylish way of expanding living space within our own homes. The system allows a bed to glide into the ceiling, opening up rooms as multifunctional living areas. For a growing family like ours a system like this is extremely — Continue reading

LIV Sideboard by MURMUR

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
LIV Sideboard by MURMUR

LIV SIDEBOARD design by Ana Ribeiro Materials_ Sycamore wood and white lacquered mdf Finishes_ Polyurethane matt varnish Measure_ 160x50x75h Almost suspended supported by foundations five different legs crosses and divides the space inside the sideboard and vertically rip the faces of the doors. The two materials the Sycamore wood that — Continue reading

Bold Color DIY for This Weekend!

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Bold Color DIY for This Weekend!

Is your home feeling a bit blah lately? You need some fun colors to punch up your indoor and outdoor spaces! We’ve got four projects that would be easy to do and bring some bright colors into your home. And of course, being DIY, they’re totally customizable! Modern DIY Outdoor — Continue reading

Type Matters! by Jim Williams

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Type Matters! by Jim Williams

This book might not have as many juicy color photos as the other books we’ve been giving away this week, but anyone who’s a type lover will really dig this book. “Type Matters!”  by Jim Williams and published by Merrell Publishers is a jolly little soft-cover book that looks almost — Continue reading

Felt landscapes, Neon Animal Garlands & More!

Categories: Art + Graphics, Modern Decor + Objects
Felt landscapes, Neon Animal Garlands & More!

Chloé Fleury/Hopscotch Design’s paper illustrations “Today…” wall hanging by White Horse Home Yasuaki Onishi’s reverse of volume RG installation DIY Crafts A Neon Animal Garland The corner ladder by Company & Company Design Studio Gal Weinstein’s Jezreel Valley installation  

Free DIY Geo-Ball Template!

Categories: DIY + How To
Free DIY Geo-Ball Template!

Eeep! Loving this cute DIY paper geo-ball project we found on the French site Zu Galerie (via Cherry Plum). Providing a free-to-download-and-print-yourself template, you could make these little cuties as storage for office supplies on your desk at home or work, or as cute decorations for a shelf or table — Continue reading

More Dream Homes: 100 Inspirational Interiors

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More Dream Homes: 100 Inspirational Interiors

Like looking at gorgeous interior spaces? Like getting inspiration from those spaces? Like just seeing how other people live? Then you’ll love today’s book up for giveaway, “More Dream Homes: 100 Inspirational Interiors” by Andreas von Einsiedel and Johanna Thornycroft. As the title might suggest, this is a follow up — Continue reading