links

Lots of good information out there. Here are our favorite links:

architecture blogs

• archdaily [A little bit of architecture; every day]
• build blog [Fantastic architectural blog put out by a Seattle architecture firm. Well written and not afraid to discuss "trade secrets"]
• life of an architect [Bob Borsen's blog is delightfully irreverent and informative, and being located in Dallas, has something of a Texas slant to his musings]
• matt risinger and the green building blog [The title kinda sounds like a good name for a pub band, but Matt's blog, with lots of video, is focused on green building with an Austin, Texas, slant]

build blogs

• a house by the park [A blog for a house built with the Build folks in Seattle with unusually detailed descriptions of cost and whatnot]
• building a modern, reasonable green, home [Modern {and reasonably green...} home in SoCal]
• contemporist [Modern architecture, furniture, lighting, and desig]
• green house, good life [Lovely folks just around the corner from us that built a Class A green home]
• modern in minnesota [Building affordable Modern in Minnesota. Lot of DYI advice]
• wheat ridge, 80033 [House in Utah built with a lot of sweat equity. Nicely detailed and lots of useful info]

design blogs

• 2modern [Modern furniture and design]
• better living through design [The name says it all]
• design/milk [Everything design]
• grassroots modern [Affordable Modern]
• minimalissimo [Dedicated to that which is barely there...]
• hauspanther [Have a Modern house and a cat? Well, here's your site!]
• modfrugal [Mod design on a budget]
• remodelista [Multi-authored blog of design]
• trendir [All that's Modern trendy in Europe]

local

• creede fitch [local modern listing, musings, and building by a realtor; used to focus on grassroots modern]
• modaustin [Modern happenings and real estate in Austin.]
• modern austin [Focused on the Modern home market in Austin {and a great way to peak into the windows of various Modern properties in and about town.}]
• the value of architecture [local and LA firm run by an architect focused on properties of architectural interest and importance]

resources

• austin energy's green building program [Here's where you get your stars.]
• building science corporation [Excellent site for building science aimed at being affordable, implementable, and backed by data.]
• energy star [The federal gummint's place on the interwebs for pitching energy efficiency. You should aim for better than meeting minimum Energy Star requirements, but the spreadsheets and data make it easy to do so.]  
• fine homebuilding [Lots of good, no great, information on building and building green.]
• green building advisor [Freakin' fantastic resource for green building and hand wringing.]
• houzz [Great place to search and save home and design ideas.]
• water sense [The federal gummint's place on the interwebs for pitching water efficiency.]

shopping for modern

• 2modern [Modern furniture and lighting.]
• all+modern [Everything Modern.]
• bauhaus2yourhouse [repros of the masters]
• design public [Lots of various items of a Modern and design forward flavor.]
• design within reach [Don't know about that "within reach" bit, but nice, nice stuff.]
• faucet.com [Lots of faucets and sinks here.]
• faucetdirect.com [Lots of faucets and sinks here too.]
• moma store [Store at the Museum of Modern Art.]
• mjolk [Scandanavian design, including Icelandic.]
• regency shop [Design (Actually) Within Reach.]
• smartfurniture
• y lighting [Lighting of a Modern flavor.]
• urbilis [pretty amazing collection of modern outdoor stuff]

shopping for modern in austin

• boconcept austin [Bo Concept {in Austin}.]
• collectic [Caters to the loft livers; mildly transitional, ties to Eurway.]
• copenhagen [Skandinavian furniture and more.]
• crate and barrel [Wished we had the hipper CB2 instead...]
• design within reach [Don't know about that "within reach" bit, but nice, nice stuff.]
• eurway [Used to have brick and mortar presence, now appears to only be online.]
• fivelements [Contemporary furniture in South Austin.]
• four hands [Rustic modern.]
• IKEA [A store in Round Rock that needs no introduction.]
• motif modern living [Modern stuff in San Antonio.]
• nest modern [High and mid end Modern furniture and lighting on 6th Street.]
• prima forme [Mid-century modern.]
• red in fred [Our favorite store: Rustic Modern {west of Austin in Fredericksburg}.]
• remixologie [mid-cent modern on Burnet.]
• room service [A place to seek vintage Modern.]
• scott + cooner [high end Modern.]
• simplyaustin [More modern in south austin.]
• skandinavia [Skandinavian furniture.]
• uptown modern [Vintage Modern on Burnet.]
• urbanspace interiors [Nice collection of high Modern.]
• west elm [Modernish; affordable.]
• wildflower [Modern organic; transitional.]

shopping for green in austin

• House+Earth [Focused on green building products.]
• Treehouse [A hardware store focused on green.]