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Before & After: Cate's Colorful Home Office

The perfect spot for books, baskets and all things that need to be organized, built-ins are an added bonus to any home. We love the way they help anchor a room and can be painted to add a playful d...

Jodi's Ideal Home Office

Wow. We had no idea this space was a home office until we read Jodi's blog post with all the awesome details. Switching gears to work as freelance design director this past year, she converted her ...

The Importance of a Good Layout

Sometimes you've got to mess things up before you get things right. And such was the case with my home office, for years the forgotten stepchild of our apartment. It's been several weeks now since I r...

8 Ways To Make Your Home Office More Comfortable

At times it can seem as though we live mainly out of our home office. It's well used, but it can be difficult to get things done in a timely and efficient manner if we don't like spending time in it...

The Laptop Tower by Ursula Maier

Yesterday we posted about a DIY computer workstation which was designed to be used standing up (a tall stool is readily available when a seat is needed). We're not sure about working standing up, but ...

The Laptop Friendly L@p Chair

Designer Martin Ballendat designed the L@p chair to be used in hotels and other public spaces where traveling laptop users could park themselves to relax in a lobby, enjoy some (hopefully) free wi-fi ...

Unplggd's Favourite Small Space Desks for Laptop Users

Our home office is smaller than any cubicle we've ever had to work within, measuring about 5'x6.5' in usable space. This means in our current configuration the area dictates we optimize every square i...

Flickr Find: Sara's Sleek Home Office Space

In a small space there's not always a lot of room to bring in a regular sized desk; spreading out papers and magazines is a luxury normally reserved for the dining table. But what we hadn't thought o...

Close-Up: A Home Office for the Baroque at Heart

Forgive us. We found this on Ikea's Swedish site and Google translator has not helped us out much in figuring out how this beautiful room came together. Translation issues aside, the office space is a...

Good Questions: Recognize This Metal Chair?
Los Angeles

Hi Apartment Therapy, I have saved this picture in my "inspiration files" for when the time comes to redo my home office. Well...the time has come! Unfortunately, I did not save any product info and ...

Ferm Wallpaper Gives Home Office Depth, Monitor Some Contrast

Anna of Newburgh, NY has been renovating her home for quite some while now, and her back room turned home office has made some huge leaps forward. What started as a dirty old room was turned into a br...

Traditional Desk Chair or Something More Stylish?

He favored something practical, like an ergonomic black chair on casters. She preferred to have something that better complemented the decor in the bedroom, but perhaps wasn't as comfortable. The he s...

Roundup: The Good, The Bad, and The Funny of Home Office Decor

Yesterday, a friend was working in another co-worker's office (our building is going through some much-needed renovations), and she observed, "There are hand written positive affirmations all over thi...

Nancy's Highly Efficient Office Space

click for more picsWhat we wouldn't do to call this extremely organized office our own. Nancy truly gives meaning to the phrase, "a place for everything and everything in it's place."...

Blogging...Jodi's Creative Space on Uppercase

While there's a lot of evidence pointing to the fact that magazines are reaching its demise, we're hoping that some of the smaller, specialized ones will survive, like Canada's Uppercase magazine. Wh...

Close-Up: Sait's "New Stuff with Old Products" Home Office

Designer Sait Alanyali's wanted to transform his home office in Turkey within a reasonable budget, and he did so by thoughtfully piecing together his home workspace using various IKEA furnishings, car...

Roundup of Home Offices In A Closet

An appropriate topic for Small Cool month, Unplggd's gathered various examples of optimizing the space within a closet or stand-alone storage for home office use. Now if we can only clean out our walk...

Look! Using Real Bamboo As a Wall

We're guessing if you feel like you're working in paradise, work somehow becomes paradise. We can't really attest if that's really true ourselves (our walls are a nice dark cream color that reminds us...

Desks in the Kitchen

We must all have small home offices on the brain these days. My own desire to move from the dining room table to some kind of dedicated workspace that doesn't need to get packed up (like the one I us...

10 Great Things About Working From Home
Now That I Don't Anymore

Working from home was one of those grass is always greener scenarios for me. It seemed like such a great thing...until I got to experience it everyday. I hated it. For about a year I worked from ho...

6 Things We Love From the Spring CB2 Catalog

We've been watching the future site of the LA CB2 like lovesick teenagers, longingly staring at the covered windows in the Sunset Plaza and desperate to know when it will unveil itself. The little sis...

Roundup: Favorite Home Office Inspiration

With all the talk of home offices and getting organized we've been searching for some inspiration for our own home office (which at best will be a nook in either the living room or bedroom but a big s...

Magnetic Home Office Ideas from Better Homes and Gardens

The upside of the economic downturn is many of us are looking for frugal DIY solutions in and around our homes. That doesn't necessarily mean ugly results, as is illustrated by Better Homes and Garden...

Mary Randolph Carter's Office At Ralph Lauren
Featured on The Selby

In the past, we've all felt a little bit of guilt when it comes to a messy, cluttered home office (check out Richele's rant of shame); but lately, we've come to embrace certain cluttered home offices ...

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...

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