I’ve found this beautiful modern and minimal bedroom picture on Yankodesign and I think that is a great example. The place is very well organized, not cluttered at all and the design looks awesome. Another thing that is interesting at this bedroom is the furniture, every piece of furniture seems to float. This picture is from imm cologne ( The international furnishing show ) a show where more than 1,300 exhibitors from around 60 countries opened the doors of the global furnishings and design market and gave the 2008 furniture year a strong start.

The Black and White Bookself is an interesting DIY project presented by Apartment Therapy and shows how a simple bookcase was transformed in this beautiful bookcase. The project is quite simple and the costs are just $75 for this projects, and you can see the step by step instructions for how this was done on Apartment Therapy. While watching this project I think that buying old pieces of furniture and making the beautiful and unique could be an excellent business especially if you are a talented designer.

You might remember the Metaphys Indoor Grass Planters a similar product designed with the purpose to bring a piece of nature in a stylish way inside our homes that I’ve presented a few months ago. Today I’ve found the PRAIRIE FACTORY SQUARE a charming frame planter. This small white plastic square allows you to plant and grow prairie grass seeds along the bottom. Place it on a shelf, in front of a window or even hang it on the wall, and sit back and enjoy the scenery. Each frame comes with a packet of prairie seeds, water keeper pellets, and frame. All you need to add is water. The price for this stylish white frame planter is $48.00 and you can have it from here.

In these days people love to swap books, music and movies, especially online. Now for those of you who would like to swap furniture with other people, flat-pack behemoth IKEA is organizing a furniture swap at its Amsterdam store: a husselmarkt. The swap, which will take place on February 9th, will let up to 250 people bring in furniture which doesn’t have to be made by IKEA and swap it for items brought in by others. IKEA will also add 12.000 euros worth of furniture to the mix. To bad that this is happening just in Amsterdam, but who knows maybe in future it will become a trend.

The event is part of a marketing campaign that encourages customers to think like designers, which includes experimenting by rearranging furniture they already have (roughly translated, husselen means to shuffle, or move around). To help people redesign their living spaces, IKEA offers a tool on husselen.nl that lets users draw a room as it’s currently arranged, and then move around pieces on-screen. Any furniture that no longer fits their rearranged room can be brought to the husselmarkt. - Via - Springwise

The decline in church attendance over the last several decades has meant that countless churches across the Netherlands have lost their function. They are crumbling, are demolished, or are put to new uses. Their specific architectural features often fall by the wayside in this process. Not every church can be turned into a municipal exhibition hall, and if, for example, a residential use is chosen, the original spatial qualities are usually lost. A dutch firm named Zecc has converted an old chapel into an apartment, carefully respecting and enhancing the character of the original building. The chapel was part of a large housing complex of the Friars of Utrecht, which at its height, around the mid-20th century, housed 217 residents. The remaining 13 elderly friars, however, moved to a nursing home in 2005, and the complex was divided up and converted into about 40 apartments.

This was the church before ZECC Architects started the work.

And this is how the church looks now …modern and stylish.

The design team chose to keep many of the original features like the high gothic stained glass windows and the original choir organ. To allow more light to enter the space, they cut a Mondrian-inspired glass window into the front of the house facing the street perhaps paying homage to Rietveld’s nearby infamous Schroder House. The entire living area has been whitewashed, while the private spaces above were painted dark. In conclusion this place might be controversial, but it looks very modern and stylish. - Via - Thecoolhunter