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Posts tagged “home office”

Using Color to Organize Your Files

Last week we talked about organizing your files using the straight-line filing technique. To further organize your paperwork we suggest assigning color to each category in your files. No longer will...

Pulp Memo Boards

For the most part we are crafty enough to make our own memo board with some spray paint or found fabric. But lately we can't imagine finding the time to make anything. So when we spied these pre-mad...

Keeping It All Together

Single. Solitary. One isn't necessarily the loneliest number. It could mean the difference between going insane or keeping your cool. What we're suggesting is keeping one notebook at the ready for...

Piola Leaning Bookcase

While we love a traditional bookcase to showcase our favorite reads, we couldn’t help but bookmark the Piola Bookshelf for our “must have one day” list. Take a look at this neat leaning bookcase...

How To: Multi-Task A Room

When living in an apartment or small home, creative thinking is a great way to maximize your space. Most common inspiration - recreating rooms within other rooms. The design goal is to create function...

Look! Hidden Home Office

If you don't think you have the space in your place to put a home office, take a look at some of these tips from House to Home magazine. They're showing some pretty great solutions on how to create a...

Making the Home Office Beautiful

Maxwell did a bit of "reveal behind the curtain" posting today with his entry showing my home office. Looking at it from a guest's perspective, I know I'd like to eventually spruce it up. Though my ho...

Finding Space for a Home Office

Even if you don’t work out of your house, you need a place to take care of running your home: paying bills, dealing with mail, handling repairs. You don’t need a dedicated room or a large footpri...

Top 10 Organizing Tips From Chez Larsson

Benita Larsson (of Chez Larsson) is our hero when it comes to keeping an organized home that is still comfortable and beautiful. So we're over the moon that she was willing to share her top 10 tips f...

Faux Bois File Folders

We live by Mary Poppins’s credo: “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and, oops, the job’s a game.” While it’ll always be a challenge for us to fi...

Where Do You Do Your Paperwork?

If you're using your dining table as your desk, where are you eating dinner? Finding a good spot to work in our one bedroom home can be a challenge. We have a console behind our couch that we usually...

Secretary Desk From West Elm

In small apartments, we don't often have the luxury of an extra room for an office. Bill paying, checkbook balancing and written correspondence usually take place on the nearest available table. Oft...

How to: Make a desk for two

Everyone needs a space of their own. This is especially true when it comes to home offices or just an area to pay bills and whatnot. Unfortunately, there isn't always room to accommodate separate de...

Dxion on/off switch Super Magnet Photo Holders

These on/off switch magnet and photo holders from Dxion definitely turn us on with their subtle humour. We'd love a set of these for office and fridge for reminders (perhaps a reminder to watch our ...

Brocade Home: gifts

As someone who is allergic to patterns if it deviates from a stripe or polka dots, I wouldn't describe myself as Brocade Home's ideal target audience. It's all really beautiful, I just can't seem to...

2008 "Hidden Habitats" Calendar by Jill Bliss and Saelee Oh

Can you believe there's only a month and half left of 2007? Now is a great time to think about getting a new calendar for 2008. Over the next few weeks, be sure to check out all the AT sites for new...

Back to School: Angela Adams laptop bags

Most likely a good portion of us are not going back to school this September, but it doesn' mean you can't buy yourself a snazzy little something in honor of. Angela Adams' laptop bags just might f...