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I seriously love 2sdays now! Check out what you can enter to win this week, V2 Wall Tiles By Mio. Wall tiles are being used in so many creative ways, we cant wait to see how this weeks winner puts them to use!

 

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A Better Water Bottle

These unique water bottles are free of harmful products such as BPA and PVC.

 
The  fun colored silicone sleeves protect the glass while also providing a safe grip.  All parts are dishwasher safe, but if you decide to replace your bottle with a new one, you can recycle the glass and send the silicone sleeve back to the manufacturer.  The sleeves will be ground to make mats for children's's outdoor playgrounds or mats for barn animals.  Be sure to visit Lifefactory to see some other unique products such as baby bottles and teethers.

Wall Art

Your walls tell your guests about your tastes, your personality and your lifestyle. Placing some art on the walls can actually add a character to every room.

Once you have decided what you want to add to the room, you can now choose art works ranging from the traditional and classic to the modern and contemporary.

 


It’s a way to create an exceptional style of your home.

 

Using artwork and wall accessories in a room suited to your personality, you can create the ambiance to match your moods.

Earth Day Inspiration: Urban/Indoor Gardening

First things first, happy belated anniversary to Earth Day.  Yesterday it hit the big 4-0!  Secondly, rather than spilling some silly "Go Green" rhetoric, I thought I'd share some gardening tips with you all.  I live in Atlanta, where there isn't much green space to garden and where there are a few co-ops sprinkled throughout the greater Atlanta region.  I'm sure that most urban dwellers suffer from this as well.  They'd like to do something a little ecologically-friendly, but they're faced on all sides by concrete and glass. 

Well, I personally am interested in growing my own herbs, veggies and maybe a fruit or two.  What piqued this interest was a recent grocery trip during which I paid $9 for 2 pounds of tomatoes.  That seems like a lot of money for something I could probably grow myself and what's more, it was barely enough to make my homemade pasta sauce.  The way I see it, it would be more economically friendly on my wallet (and in this economy, every penny saved is a penny earned), and it's more ecologically-friendly.

I guess everyone can celebrate Earth Day in their own ways (year-round, hopefully), but they can also do really small things like growing their own  gardens or participating in local garden co-ops.  Growing your own garden locally and organically saves you money and can help reduce the number of trucks on the road. Here's a really interesting beginner's guide on indoor container-gardening for anyone who's interested, as well as some affordable products to help us all get started on our paths to earth-friendly urban/indoor gardening.  Here's a wonderful book called Growing Stuff: An Alternative Guide to Gardening if you're totally uninitiated like me.

Start with an affordable herb kit like this one at Amazon.com

Or, if you can buy seeds individually and plant them individually in simple containers like these:

 

If you're fortunate enough to have enough outdoor space for a garden or if you live near a garden co-op (Google to find one near you), then you'll need these as well:

 

From the top:

Bladet Plant Pot with Saucer

Landlubber Gardening Set

PS Vallo Watering Can

Honey Square Isabella Baskets

 

2Modern Design Brief

In honor of Earth Day yesterday...some of my special favorites that highlight anything modern/green...

 

I have always imagined if I were lucky to find myself visiting Stockholm...this is what my vacation space would look like. This beautiful hotel, Hotel Skeppsholmen, is an Eco labeled venue.

 

Great re-use of materials. I may attempy my version of this drift wood mirror spotted on Elle Decor South Africa.

 

One of my favorite Green driven blogs is Inhabitat...They featured AIA's 'Top Ten Green Architecture Projects of 2010'. This is worth reviewing. Kudos to all these firms for their commitment to Green building! The image above is the Watsonville Water Resource Center. A beautiful project indeed!

Ci Vediamo Sulla Rotonda by Antonino Sciortino

This sculptural Wire Clock with a body based on a simplistic geometric shape finished in a red colour is designed to be appreciated on a number of different levels.

 

The designer, Antonino Sciortino, encourages you to first consider placing this modern circular clock in an unconventional manner before resorting to the traditional wall mounted placement.

This clock definetely aims to explore different spaces of the house rather than the usual “hung on the wall”. It's a kind of home decor that transforms your home into an art gallery.

Compass Trestle Legs :: Matthew Hilton

These table legs by designer Matthew Hilton certainly are beautiful, but the $800 price tag seems a bit steep considering you still have to find a tabletop to go with them.  Maybe that's the whole shtick?  What do you think?

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Take any surface and turn it into an attractive dinner table or desk with this pair of Compass Trestle legs from designer Matthew Hilton. Whether it be glass or wood the compass trestle legs will be sure to compliment it well. With an adjustable height it serves well in many functions. Made of beautiful, solid beechwood.

Compass Trestle Legs by Matthew Hilton: $795

More images after the jump!

2Modern Design Brief

If you are a design enthusiast then you have probably been in heaven the last week or so....So many cool gadgets, unique furniture and beautiful lighting being showcased at all the big trade shows. Design Week in Milan, Market in High Point...

 

Love the retro colors of this Stack System, found on Cool Hunting. Debuted at Design Week in Milan. Designed by Alessandro Zambelli. You HAVE to check this designer's website. Probably one of the coolest I have seen in a long time!

 

I spotted these chairs by Papatya on Design Milk. Again, another Milan debut. Love the jewel tones colors! I predict big things for this chair...mark my words, I think we will see a lot of these, they have an iconic feel to them.

 

Wallpaper has some really great finds from Milan this week...evidence above...I love this unit by Citterio. Take a moment to review the images on Wallpaper. Their team knows how to find the goods.

 

Also found on Wallpaper...this mirror reminds me of a game I had as a kid. I remember making structures with rectangle shaped, boldly colored plastic pieces...what was that game called? I would love to have that one back to sit next to my original BriteLite...

Get vertical: A hanging fruit basket makes for great storage!

As an apartment dweller, the phrase "A place for everything, and everything in its place" takes on a whole new meaning. And it can be exhausting trying to stay on top of maintaining closets and drawers, so I'm always looking for easy solutions. Last week I found myself searching through Real Simple's archives of bathroom organization. I was looking for some new ideas, something that I could throw together over a weekend. Since my bathroom is the size of a small closet with virtually no storage space, the headline "Consider the Ceiling" peaked my interest. And here's what Real Simple suggested:

"If your quarters are tight and space is already compromised, look up. Take advantage of vertical real estate by hanging a multilevel fruit basket for additional storage. When placed in the shower, the open rungs of the three-tier hanging basket allow loofahs and bath toys to dry over the tub. Or suspend the basket in an unused corner and stock it with lotions, treatments, and scented sachets (in lieu of dust-catching potpourri)."

(Note: This photo is from Real Simple. It is not our apartment. If we were fortunate enough to afford an apartment with such elaborate bathroom fixtures, we probably wouldn't be storing our toiletries from a hanging fruit basket.

Brilliant! The next day, I trekked out to the hardware store and picked up a hanging fruit basket for $6.00 then headed home to get to work. Fortunately, we have a drop-ceiling, so hanging objects is as easy as lifting a ceiling panel up and tucking the hook underneath. If you're dealing with drywall or tin, this project might be a little more complex and you'll probably need to hang a hook first. The whole thing took all of two minutes and left me with a barren countertop just begging for clutter. But it's not gonna happen. I've utilized my vertical real estate, and from now on, my toiletries call a hanging fruit basket home.

Edge House

The drama of the entrance is evident as stairs lead up from the street to the house on a plateau.  This Edge House was built to impress and to integrate the mountainside.  As with several of the designs from the firm Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Arkitekter MNAL, this house in a suburb south of Oslo, also makes use of extreme angles leaving one with a teetering feeling as slender steel columns secure the protruding edge into the hillside rock.  Love the details of the concrete slabs riveted into the walls.  Though strikingly balanced, definitely not for those with vertigo.  

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Have an infinitely modern day!