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Posts tagged “Home Office”

Look! Home Office in An Open Space

One of the biggest pros about living in a loft is the sheer amount of space. But incorporating a home office in a room that pulls triple duty (living room, dining room, play room) can be a bit of a ch...

Look! A Home Office Nook

We know how precious space is these days, and you readers have come up with some of the best solutions for small space living--just flipping through last year's Smallest Coolest contest is evidence en...

Blogging...Mettes Potteri's Home Office

One of our favorite textile designers and DIY expert, Antero Kjaer, just unveiled her very cute office that is comprised of vintage metal school lockers from the thrift store, Ikea, and a retro flower...

Inspiration: ATLA's Home Offices

Grace's "Dr. Houselove"If you're looking for home office inspiration, you could do worse than to look at the spaces of some of the bloggers whose posts make up this website's content. The 20+ blogs t...

Round Up: Shredders

You have a shredder, yes? A friend's experience with identity theft reinforced our feeling that it's a must have. We have a small one tucked into a cabinet that serves as our landing strip. But, a ...

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...

No Home Office
Hong Kong

We recently scrapped our plans for a custom built home office in the den. We couldn’t sacrifice the valuable square footage on something that would inevitably become littered with junk and remain mo...

Downloadable Tree House Plans

Inspired by our weekend adventure, we've been dreaming of having a home office in a tree house. We found some downloadable plans (even one for novices) so now all we need is a backyard and a big ol' ...

The Backyard Tool Shed Office

We're so green with envy right now of Brian DeHamer's amazing San Diego tool shed conversion. Brian purchased a 8' x 15' Tuff Shed Standard Ranch Storage Building and placed it in a vacant 10′ x 17...

Stockholm Desk

Can you guess the provenance of this desk? If you guessed vintage or Ikea you'd be wrong. Would you believe it if we said......

Look! Cork Wall

Did anyone else check out the Dwell Home Tours that happened over the weekend? We ran around and saw all 6 houses on the Westside. One of the highlights was this cork wall used in a home office in V...

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...

Good Questions: Where Can I Find a Desk Similar To This One?

Ryan writes: I usually transform a closet into an office space, but since I am redoing my room I want something that will go with the modern organic feel of the room. I am searching for a small, simpl...

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...

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...

We Just Can’t Container Store Ourselves Enough: 9 Products We Love

We swear they pipe something into the airducts at The Container Store. We go in there for one thing, our list firmly in hand, and come out with a dozen other things, the list be damned. Here's a ...

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...

Putting The Inside of Your Closet To Work

As we shared earlier, we're working on our closet for own Spring Cure 08. It's got two challenges: it's an extension of our home office and it's right off our living room -- so we need it to look ext...

Do You Have A Scary Closet?

Over on AT:NY, Maxwell referenced his Closet of Doom. Our ears perked up. We have one too! We call it our Scary Closet. It's the resting place for all of the stuff we don't know what to do with. O...

LA Good Question: From Garage to Home Office?

First time buyer Nia, has this question: My husband and I are looking for our first home with an office space to run a business from. Most houses in our price range don't have rooms that are adequate...

CB2 Graph Desk

This CB2 Graph Desk might be the desk I've been long looking for. Now that I have my task chair, I've set my eyes on replacing a tiny desk I've used for the last few years with something with a bit ...

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...