Color in the office creates a pleasant working environment and adds energizing beauty to the space. In addition to tech and supplies, adding color provides visual interest and breaks up all the seriousness of bills and work. A color like green creates calm with soothing soft tones and encourages productivity with bright energizing ones. More

There's no reason to let limited closet space cramp your style. With a garment rack you can turn your wardrobe into a display and free up precious closet space for more important things … like shoes. Check out this roundup of garment racks — 7 to buy and 3 to DIY — and bring your style out of the closet. More

Among the special guests at last night's Apartment Therapy Design Evening with David Stark was Michael Wong, a Broolyn-based furniture designer giving nature a modern touch… More

Today's One Minute Tip comes from Fay Wolf, with three simple ways to rethink vertical space. More

If you're short on space, need to save cash, or just like creative problem-solving, consider all the ways you can make your furniture work overtime. Here are a few examples of helpful, double-duty pieces. More

There's a lot of things we noticed about this 3,200 square feet in Brazil designed by Triptyque Architecture, including the myriad of high-end audio/video equipment strewn throughout, alongside the supremely expensive and bulbous curves of a Philippe Starck BaObab Desk. But the apartment's defining feature is the expansive, wrap-around bookshelving, holding everything but the kitchen sink... More

Having an item that is not restricted to one narrow use is always a good thing. Being able to make this item yourself on the cheap is even better. Having it smile at you, all day long? Best thing ever. More

Warm wood and cold metal intersect in these industrial-style bookshelves, which can be super rustic or smooth and refined. Some are entirely new; others recovered from old factories. And others still fall somewhere in between, with some components that have been salvaged or recycled. Love them or hate them, these bookcases are cropping up everywhere.

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Forget all the allen wrenches, ridiculous illustrations, and flimsy particleboard. Soapbox is like the hipper cousin to all that frustrating flat-pack furniture: ready to assemble without tools, constructed from plywood with hardwood veneers, and proudly made in the USA. More

demode is a forward thinking Italian designer of kitchens. This year in Milan, they launched Meccanica, a system that, aside from being very good-looking, is also eco-conscious thanks to its "dematerialization" (a concept of design that reduces the amount of material used). More