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DIY Projects to do THIS Weekend!

Categories: DIY + How To
DIY Projects to do THIS Weekend!

Looking for something modern to do with your hands this weekend? Why not improve your home? As always, our carefully curated DIY +  How to  section is bursting at the seams with awesome ideas; here are four we spotted this week: Ridiculously Easy DIY Detail: Painted Legs! DIY: Felted Box Storage Thingy 2 DIY — Continue reading

DIY Kid’s Block Wall Hooks

Categories: DIY + How To
DIY Kid’s Block Wall Hooks

Just loved this simple DIY project we spotted on Remodelista. The idea originates from the German design studio Snug, and it’s such an affordable and clever one: using wooden kid’s blocks to create a collage on the wall perfect for holding all sorts of items. Here are three reasons why we — Continue reading

Schlaudhaus Interior is Schadenfreude

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Schlaudhaus Interior is Schadenfreude

We love when a simple idea can have a huge impact on an interior space, as illustrated today by the Schlaudhaus designed by Webber + Studio Architects in Austin, Texas. What simple idea, you ask? Why the sexy addition of a room divider made up of painted, installed-close-together vertical 2 x — Continue reading

Patrik Lindell’s Abstract Architecture Art

Categories: Art + Graphics
Patrik Lindell’s Abstract Architecture Art

I look at a lot of architecture all day. In person and in photos. I like it when I can see the whole building close up. I like it when I see just one side. I like when a shot zeroes in on a detail. Though using architecture — angles, — Continue reading

Studio DUNN Debuts New Furniture at ICFF

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Studio DUNN Debuts New Furniture at ICFF

Studio Dunn straight up rockin’ the new modern furniture designs category of life today. Just got an email from them with four of their newest pieces. Gorgeous! Love the contrast between the glossy painted portion of the Corliss Chair and the soft wood portion. Freaking out over that dark and — Continue reading

2 DIY Projects for a Modern Graphic Pop!

Categories: DIY + How To
2 DIY Projects for a Modern Graphic Pop!

What’s a modern graphic pop, you ask? Well it’s a small, isolated element in your space that stands apart from the rest. Similar to a “pop” of color somewhere (like a throw pillow or a vase), a graphic pop is a surprising burst of graphics. Not quite a pattern, which — Continue reading

Jobe Fabrications’ Industrial, Handmade Looks

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Jobe Fabrications’ Industrial, Handmade Looks

Bryan Jobe of Jobe Fabrications loves steel. Like, loves. The way it looks, the way it feels. He loves steel so much, it plays the starring role in the modern/industrial furniture he makes under the name Jobe Fabrications. Based in Austin, Texas, he enjoys leaving the steel mainly untouched and — Continue reading

Dyson’s Up Hill Fountain

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Dyson’s Up Hill Fountain

Can water flow up stream? Well, the Nile does. What about up hill? Well according to James Dyson, of vacuum cleaner fame, it does. Or it is an illusion? It is indeed and well done.   The secret is deceptively simple: the water is actually flowing inside and through the — Continue reading

Axo Light is 30% Off All May!

Categories: News + Events + Contests
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

Categories: Art + Graphics
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

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
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

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
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!

Categories: News + Events + Contests
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

Categories: Art + Graphics
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

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
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?!