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Luxury & Cowhide: Kyle Bunting Interior House Design Creations

Luxury & Cowhide: Kyle Bunting Interior House Design Creations

Kyle Bunting, a furniture designer based right outside Austin, Texas, brings us a new way of using cowhide in adorning modern home design. He uses hair-on-hide as his main technique and creates whimsical items, which blend a classic flair with contemporary design elements. He creates a wide array of items, from luxury hide rugs, [...]

Bursting with Color – Stockholm Duplex Penthouse for Rent

Bursting with Color – Stockholm Duplex Penthouse for Rent

New home designs are often bursting at the seams with colors, and this wonderfully modern penthouse available for sale and for rent on Skeppsholmen is a perfect example. It’s located in Ostermalm, a Stockholm neighborhood, it features three rooms and a surface of 125 square meters and is available for rent at EUR3,482 per [...]

Refurbished & Lovely Minute Apartment in Stockholm

Refurbished & Lovely Minute Apartment in Stockholm

Found on Swedish property website bosthlm.se, this cute little Stockholm apartment, a wonderful example of small house design, is quite paradoxical. After having been cleverly and creatively refurbished, it doesn’t seem small at all anymore! The trick is that all the walls and floorings were painted immaculate white, thus visually altering the perception of [...]

The ASCII Art Is on the Wall – Dynabyte Offices, Stockholm

The ASCII Art Is on the Wall – Dynabyte Offices, Stockholm

Swedish architects PS Arkitektur are all about vibrant house designs and floor plans, and they applied the same creative principles in designing the Stockholm offices of Dynabyte. Judging by the interiors of their headquarters, Dynabyte is a great company to work with. They’re casual, dynamic, colorful, love decorative elements, be they flowers or urban-inspired [...]

Block, Block, Line – Contemporary ‘Tetris’ Bookshelf Collection

Block, Block, Line – Contemporary ‘Tetris’ Bookshelf Collection

Italian bespoke furniture manufacturer Diotti A&F have come up with a simple, yet effective call to action for all us fans of contemporary interior house designs. Their Tetris bookshelf collection seems to say, “Come out and play!” The Tetris collection actually does that – it takes simple, rectangular and square shapes, colors them in [...]

Mom + Dad + Baby + Colors = Modern Apartment, Malmo, Sweden

Mom + Dad + Baby + Colors = Modern Apartment, Malmo, Sweden

If you’re young, hip and in love, it really doesn’t matter if you’ve got a small apartment – you can still create a colorful, modern house design, as proven by this lovely apartment found on Hus & Hem. It’s located in Malmo, Sweden, and it’s all about rainbows, the joy of having a little [...]

Alice in Mirror-Land – Retro Glam Berlin Penthouse

Alice in Mirror-Land – Retro Glam Berlin Penthouse

The Modern Octopus doesn’t really know how comfortable this LecaroliMited Berlin penthouse is. But it sure is fascinating. Envisioned by resident designers Oskar Kohnen and Fabian Freytag of the afore-mentioned Berlin-based practice, this top floor home is more than simply generous in size, at a whopping 400 square meters. The open floor plan and [...]

A Dash of Madness – Baroque-Inspired Silk-Screened Dressings by Seletti

A Dash of Madness – Baroque-Inspired Silk-Screened Dressings by Seletti

If you feel like your home is missing an added layer of sophisticated charm, or, on the contrary, if you believe it needs an extra dash of playfulness, choose one of the Seletti-produced, Baroque-inspired dressers. Their elegant curvy shapes are covered in bold, silk-screened patterns, with a touch of Alice-in-Wonderland surreal flair to them. [...]

Barcelona Apartment Implodes with Color after Clever Remodel

Barcelona Apartment Implodes with Color after Clever Remodel

Let’s do some snooping and detective work, if you will. Exhibit A: a lovely, quirky 105 square meter apartment in Barcelona, designed by Miel Arquitectos. Exhibit B: lots of color and print accents popping up everywhere, offset against the white walls and neutral tone hardwood flooring. Exhibits C, D, E & into infinity: the [...]

Anthony Hartley’s Mr. Smith the Second Chair Tastes Like Candy!

Anthony Hartley’s Mr. Smith the Second Chair Tastes Like Candy!

  It surely is not a bird, nor a plane, nor is it Superman – but what is it, really? A ginormous piece of candy? A clown-dentist’s chair? Sipping straws stuck together in a chair-like shape? Could be all those things, but what it most definitely is, it’s a vibrant, colorful piece of décor, [...]