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What do you get when you pair high ceilings with big, clear windows? An absolutely gorgeous living room!

Add in some built-in see-through bookshelves, a swanky ladder, a beauty of a hot pink chair and you have the best living room I think I’ve ever seen. I could list every item of this room and still continue to find things that I love about it. The bike, the black lamp, that table with the frames. The black and white pillows.

What’s your favorite part of this modern living room?

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Young, Dutch designer Jólan van der Wiel uses a unique process to make these spikey candle holders that resemble cavern formations. Made exclusively for Paris-based Galerie Gosserez , van der Wiel uses a process similar to that of his Gravity Stools, which we’ve already featured here . He uses a contraption that’s essentially a “magnet machine” that makes these objects through the action of a strong magnetic field with a paste that’s a mixture of resin and iron oxides.

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Gravity Candleholder by Jólan van der Wiel

Already an internet hit with their mushroom-growing kit , Back To The Roots went from fungi to fish. Raising over double their Kickstarter goal, they just launched this Home Aquaponics Self-Cleaning Fish Tank . This self-cleaning fish tank features five pots on the top for growing herbs and plants such as spinach, baby greens, oregano, beans, basil, mint, parsley and thyme. The fish waste naturally fertilizes the plants above. So, all you really have to do is feed the fish! Pre-order one here .

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Self-Cleaning Fish Tank Garden by Back To The Roots

Don’t you love when something appears so simple, but really it’s not that simple after all? That’s how this modern coffee table makes me feel. At first glance, it’s just a giant rock with some glass around it. But in reality, it’s a gorgeous modern coffee table that was crafted with time and perseverance to create a completely unique design.

Designed by Emmet Rock of Eagle Wolf Orca, the Archipelago II is what you see above. The grandiose size of the rock – and the fact that it “punctures” through the glass – rather than having the glass rest on top of a stone – is what gets my design-loving heart beating fast.

What I wouldn’t give for one of these bad boys in my living room! How do you feel about Archipelago?

If you’re looking for minimalist tabletop and functional accessories, then look no further than FTF Design Studio . Pictured above: Bloom box Rack (for towels, firewood, etc.) Bookends Tray Umami Tray Circle Pod They also have furniture and hardware – and even bathtubs ! Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook . © 2013 Design Milk | Posted by Jaime Derringer in Home Furnishings | Permalink | 1 comment

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Minimal Function by FTF Design Studio

Hailing from Wellington, New Zealand, industrial design student James Boock set out to design a table that was inspired by the way vines cling to a structure. The Clip table’s stainless steel legs represent the vines that are clipped onto the wood tabletop structure. Using ecologically treated Accoya pine and legs that attach and remove easily, the table can be flat-packed for easy shipping or just to put away. There’s an industrial simplicity about it that would make it fit in just about anywhere it was placed. Share This: Twitter | Facebook | Discover more great design by following Design Milk on Twitter and Facebook .

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A Table Inspired by Vines: Clip by James Boock

The latest design to launch from Scandinavian design house Muuto is the Pull Lamp , designed by the Stockholm-based studio Whatswhat . Pull was the 2010 winner from Muuto’s annual competition where design students have historically had their winning designs produced by the company. The interactive lamp features a playful detail that allows the user to pull the shade to a lower position as needed. The cord is partially hidden which acts as the mechanism that allows the lamp to be adjusted.

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Pull Lamp by Whatswhat for Muuto

Let’s be real, there are two things that you’re never too old for – playing with your food and dinosaurs. Add baking cookies to the mix and you have your inner child’s fantasy.

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3D Dinosaur Cookie Cutters by Suck UK

For many, today is the first day back to a full week of work after two weeks of holidays. Factor in all of the holiday preparation before that and all of the undecorating after, and it becomes a case of the post-holiday blues.

Some people I’ve talked to are happy that the hustle and bustle of the holidays are over, which I am too in some ways, but then I look at my empty living room where my tree was just hours ago and it is a bit depressing.

I did a quick search of these post-holiday blues to see what people were saying about it, and I came across a list of ten ways to beat the holiday blues. Many of them include volunteering and doing other good deeds, but one of them hit home to what we’ve been talking about here: decluttering!

As for myself, I’ve been feeling a little bummed the past few days and I think the holidays having come and gone may have something to do with it. That, and the fact that my Christmas tree was infested with gross bugs. Guess I better act on all the decluttering I’ve been talking about!

What about you? Are you feeling the post-holiday blues?

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Challenged by the local water company, Serra da Estrela , Portuguese design firm Colectivo da Rainha was to find a way to re-use the company’s PET plastic bottles as the central material in a new product. Accepting the challenge, the duo created the Plastic Bird House as a way to give a home to birds from something you already have in your home. The water company takes environmental issues seriously with their campaign to plant a tree for each bottle that’s sold and the designers, Filipa Ricardo and Renato Silva, took that to heart with their own belief that we all have “a home for nature in our home.” Each birdhouse is made from a single water bottle and the handle remains as a perch for the birds. After experimenting with the bottles and seeing that they could be re-molded and shaped with heat, the material became useful

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Get Out! Plastic Bird House by Colectivo da Rainha