We're always on the lookout for interesting blogs to add to our subscription list. If you think there is another appropriate blog—related to the mission of this site—please let us know.

We don't want to overwhelm you with content. So, we've developed the following guidelines about which blogs we'll try to subscribe to:

• The blog must be related to the mission of the website, modern and sustainable.
• The blog can't be primarily a commercial blog, i.e., the bloggers are blogging primarily to make a living. We love these bloggers but they are already well known. We're looking for the blogs that are part of the long tail.
  
• The blog must be active, at least 1 blog entry per month (more active blogs will be favored). If the blog is not active, it will be replaced by a more active one.
  
• We need to get permission. If we can't contact the blogger by email, it may be hard. If you have an email address for the blogger, please pass it along with your nomination.
  
• We need to be able to successfully import blog entries. Most common blog platforms are supported (Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, Moveable Type, etc.). We'll test the blog before we ask permission, and if blog entries import fine, then we'll proceed with an invite. Sometimes they will not, however, and it's almost always due to how the blogger is using their tools. Normally we won't ask them to change what they are doing, so if it does not look good here we won't subscribe to the blog.
  

Of course, we do make exceptions for exceptional blogs recommended by our readers.

If you know of a blog that meets at least the first three criteria, and are not on the list below, let us know. We'll check 'em out.

With that, here are the blogs to which LiveModern is currently subscribed, by topic:

Architect Blogs

These blogs are from architects and designers dedicated to modern housing and documenting their processes.

• Content Design Group
• designSTUDIOmodern—by Mark Meyer in central Texas.
  
• eco New Bedford—Our blog is a journal of a community scale, smart growth design/build project in New Bedford, MA. effortless design is an architectural firm crafting modern urban projects since 2001. We use efficiency and opportunity as our guides to contribute to the local economy and support the environment. 
• Robert Swinburne, Vermont Architect—I am an architect in Halifax, Vermont of the "green" persuasion doing good work all over New England and beyond. This blog serves as my online public diary of what I'm doing and what I'm thinking. 
• [suggest one—see below]

Build Blogs

Most bloggers on LiveModern were documenting the process of building their modern home. This is where all the blogs of this type have been collected. As homes are finished, we'll unsubscribe from the blog but the content will remain archived on LiveModern.

• 100khouse.com—This blog is a record of one development team in downtown Philly trying to see if they can build both a modern and “green” house for a measly $100,000.
  
• 225 Corley St—We're Calvin Florian and Kelly Hart. Together we bought a piece of land right in the middle of Atlanta, Ga. We wanted to build a modern home in between two of the most historic neighborhoods in the city. This blog documents the highs and lows of the process, from financing, designing, zoning, building, and pretty much everything in between. We hope it encourages others to take some risks and make something special of their own.
• 5ive—Diary of a LEED Platinum home.
• 7301 Ava Ln—A home being built in the Agave development, Austin, TX.
• Alana and Alex on Agatha in Agave—Two chicks, two cats, 3 dogs, 1 Dyson vacuum cleaner full of fur, 3 fish, big love, building a new place for all in Agave.
• Apartment House—An exercise in smallness, or “Zac and David build a house.”
• Atomic Indy—A journal following the search for and renovation of a mid-century modern home in Indianapolis.
• Bare Hill Barn House—Converting an nineteenth-century barn into a modernist home for a family of six.
• Building a modernist (and hopefully green) home—We are long-married couple building our "last house" in Culver City, CA. We have always been modernists, initially expressed through our furniture -- our first dining chairs, in 1969, were Bertoia -- and then through the interior design choices of our 6 prior houses. While some of those were new houses, the builder had already determined the design. So this will be our first custom, designed from scratch, home.
• Building Green in Vermont—Constructing a modern, green farmhouse on a budget in northern Vermont.
  
• building sight—Building Sight; an obvious play on words. This blog aims to be a running commentary on a design-build renovation of a house for myself in Montserrat, British West Indies. It is a building site, which the world is allowed to view...building sight.
• Dave and Christina—"haste on with me…"
• Diary of a Vermont Eco Builder—Sustainable and beautiful house design.
  
• EcoDEEP Haus—This blog is about the design and building of a sustainable house project, a transformation of a 1940's Cape Cod in St.Paul MN for 2 architects and their family.
• EconoMod—Building an eco-friendly modern house on a budget.
• From the Ground Up—An interactive journal tracking Jason Hammond and his family as they plan, design and build a unique modern contemporary home in the Twin Cities.
• Hill House—designing and building a modern house in portland.
• Home Delivery—Fabricating the modern dwelling at the Museum of Modern Art.
• House on the Hill—The trials and tribulations of building our house, our way.
  
• Hus Langford—Detailing our efforts to build a summer home in the Swedish Archipelago.
• Kingswood Redux—Musings from a “modest modern” remodel of a 1958 split-level.
• Kyle and Dara’s New Modern Home Construction—Our quest to build a modern house in midtown Atlanta.
• Live/Work—A new studio, a new home.
  
• Long Island Beach House—I'm a serial mover, but this is the only house I've ever had a serious relationship with. It was designed in 1968 by Andrew Geller, and I'm trying to update it without doing it any harm. With little money and few skills it's a challenging endeavor.
  
• Longhouse—Our modern take on the Native American Longhouse allots 1600 s.f. of living space, 3 bedrooms, and 2 baths for our family of four. I'm a registered architect currently practicing with Elliott Elliott Norelius Architecture in Blue Hill, Maine. Our design is a study in simplicity of form using a modern material palette and reductive detailing.
• Mayo Woodlands Home—Building a house (or the attempt to) in the Mayo Woodlands development in Rochester MN.
• Modern House—The Miller Barter House. A home constructed through the collaboration of a community.
• Modern in Atlanta—This is a blog for my new modern home in Atlanta, GA.
• Modern in MN—Pictures and words that document the conception, design and birth of an extraordinary modern-industrial loft house in Minnesota.
• Modern in NE Minneapolis—The Downing/Perrault residence.

• New Modern Home Coming to Austin, TX—This blog is to inform and document the progress of a new modern home to be built in Austin, Texas in 2009. 

• Rancho Deluxe—Trials, tribulations, occasional successes and desiderata related to designing and building a modern getaway.
• Reclaimed Builder's Blog—Mundane to Modern: The purpose of this blog is to document a rather large project that I have undertaken together with my father-in-law.  He and I have owned a half-acre piece of cottage property about 100 km north of Winnipeg for about 8 years now.  We’ve been camping on the property and have constructed a small bunkhouse.  We’ve decided to take the plunge and build ourselves a cabin; a reclaimed cabin.

• REMOD(ern)EL in Park Hill

• renovationbloviation—This is the evolving story of my home renovation - the plan and execution. The house was built in 1978 exactly the way the original owners wanted it, and they never changed a thing. The disco balls are coming down, the nasty linoleum is coming up, and tub enclosure units are outahere. It will be totally transformed at the end of this process (will it ever really end?) and this will be my witness and record.
• SIPs House—SIPs house is an exercise in pushing the limits of sustainable design in Portland OR.
• Sjodin Dream Home—So maybe you're curious or really need some tips on the whole "owner-builder" building process, but maybe you want to get with the Green kick and learn about eco-friendly, healthy or energy efficient features and methods that are in use today. You've come to the right place!
• Tills Home—By Matt and Laura Tills in Madison, WI
• Three Tree Journal—Building a modern home on the beach, with some surfing thrown in.
  
• Villa Futura—The purpose of this blog is to introduce new materials, new ways of thinking and to contribute to our society and show there are better ways of using our resources. There will be links to selected suppliers and hopefully inspiration to use some of these same solutions and materials. Enjoy the journey as Villa Futura is being built. 
• [suggest one—see below]
  

Design Blogs

These blogs are usually about the field of design, by and about architects and designers.

• A Tiny House, By Design—My mission is to build a tiny house that might be small on space, but BIG on design. Form, function, and artistic detail are important for every piece of furniture that goes into a tiny house, so I'm scouring for the best designs, and sharing with you.
• BLDGBLOG—Architectural conjecture, urban speculation, landscape futures.
• Blog Like You Give A Damn—The official blog of Architecture for Humanity: Minnesota.
• BUILD blog—A discussion of modern design from the NW.
• Eco-Modernism—Green + Urban + Modern Kitchen & Bath Design
• EdwardLifson.com, The New Modernist—Something beautiful every day.
• Exclusively Blog—Exclusively Blog is articles about topics including modern design, furniture, lighting, decorations, deals, accessories, fashion trends and contemporary style.
  
• Eye Candy—This blog has been set up as an extension of a free weekly e-mail we've been sending out for over 7 years. It is our intention to raise the level of design by exposing ourselves to the examples set by others (both good and bad). We sincerely hope you will think, reflect, learn and raise the bar (or at least bring some insight and/or intelligent conversation that might have been overlooked) on the project in which you are currently engaged. The thoughtful evolution of the design of our cities and built environment is dependant upon the engaged critical thinking of its design professionals.
  
• Home Rejuvenation—Improving life through design.
• materialicious—I started materialicious™ at the suggestion of family and friends, who insisted that I share a bit of my knowledge & experience, as well as what I think are some good examples of residential architecture & design, craftsmanship, materials, products & methods that I think readers of this site might be interested in. I do not, and will not, post anything that I wouldn’t personally use or live in myself. Never.
• Mies and Carrots—The modern urban experience.
• Modern Residential Design
• [suggest one—see below]

Finish Blogs

These are blogs about finishing a home, after structural and systems (electrical, plumbing, HVAC, anything that requires a building permit) work is done. So, it could be interior finishings, furniture, fixtures, and other furnishings (it's the "f" topic).

• [suggest one—see below]
  

Green Blogs

Sustainable design and building practices are by definition modern (in my humble opinion) so we've subscribed to the following blogs even though the "style" of the output might not be considered modern.

• designTURF—green modern snippets about design and living.
• Energy Priorities (Building Department)—What is Energy Priorities? A platform for information, ideas and commentary on smart energy -- a resource for businesses who want to be more informed energy users -- an asset to entrepreneurs and investors in the new energy sector.
• glave.dot.com—do something. do it now.
  
• My Green Home Blog—Your guide to green and healthy homes.
• Slow Home—Slow Home is an international movement devoted to bringing good design into real life. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home provides design focused information to empower each of us to take more control of our homes and improve the quality of where and how we live.
  
• [suggest one—see below]

LiveModern Blogs

These are bogs that are authored by LiveModern members, and whose contents appear only on LiveModern. Do you blog now at LiveModern? if so, let me know.

Modern Blogs

 This is a catch all topic for blogs that might fit into more than one of our other sections.

• Concourse E—Updating interested readers on the ongoing progress of Concourse E's current modern green residential projects located in Atlanta, GA.
• Farmhouse Modern—Farmhouse Modern was created as a showcase for Architectural Design, Decor and Lifestyle related to the Farmhouse Modern aesthetic.
• Future House Now—Future House Now is dedicated to exploring ideas about better living in modernist family homes that are affordable, efficient, healthy, environmentally responsible and available today.
• LamiDesign Modern House Plan Blog—Chronicling the development of new modern house plan designs, prefab house products, and our resurgent modern movement.
• Meanwhile Back At the Ranch—A resource for remodeling and restoring 50’s and 60’s homes with resources, links to blogs and other helpful places.
• ModFrugal—Budget Minded Modernist.
• plastolux—Keep  it modern.
• [suggest one—see below]

Prefab Blogs

LiveModern helped popularize the term prefab, and there are still many blogs that focus on the systems approach to building homes.

•  A Prefab Project—Blogging the progress on our Res4-designed modern prefab cabin in Lost River, West Virginia.
  
• The Minnie House—Here I will document my LV Home-building project in Pacifica, CA.
• [suggest one—see below]
  

Other Blogs

Occasionally we run across a blog that does not fit into one of the above topics, but we find interesting nonetheless. We hope you do to.

• Shedworking—Shedworking is the only daily updated guide to the lifestyles of shedworkers and those who work in shedlike atmospheres.
  
• Houseplans.com Hot Sheet—News and ideas about home design from Dan Gregory, currently editor at Houseplans.com and former senior editor at Sunset magazine.
• just seen—Just Seen are dispatches from the world of modern design - cool stuff we see and want to share. 
• Modern Ridgewood—Promoting the preservation of Mid Century Modern residential architecture in St. Louis through education, appreciation and awareness.
• Small House Style—Small House Style is a web magazine dedicated to everything small house. Think bungalows, cottages, guest houses, cabins, sustainable architecture, green building, straw bale, prefab, modern, apartments, modular, simple, solar, wind and tiny - inside and outside. We love beautiful, modern and sustainable small buildings.
• The Tiny Circus Chronicle—The Tiny Circus is a group of artists, writers and musicians who are spending the summer putting on an amazing spectacle creating a pack of mini airstream trailers from old rundown trailers.
• workalicious—A weblog featuring workplace design, furniture, implements, and culture.
• [suggest one—see below]

Do you write an interesting blog?

If so (or know of one, and your blog meets the first three criteria above), we can help you promote your blog on LiveModern.

Using your published RSS/Atom feed, we can include your blog entries automatically in the feeds area of LiveModern. We'll update our feed to your site at least once each day. We import only those blog entries that you make publicly available via the feed link on your blog. For LiveModern visitors that want to visit your site, each of your entries will automatically include a link to your original blog entry. All of your content on the LiveModern website is by default protected by a Creative Commons License.

You can see a sample of what we are developing at http://livemodern.com/modernblogs. We are extending this same invitation to several dozen blogs over the next few weeks, so take this opportunity now to be included on the ground floor of this new service.

Please let us know at your earliest convenience if you want your blog to be included in the feeds area of LiveModern. Once you agree, we will test how well your blog can be fed (not all blog feeds will work optimally) before making any of your content public.