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Posts tagged “home office”

Sharilyn Wright of lovelydesign
Behind the Blog

Sharilyn Wright of lovelydesign was kind enough to take some time out of her busy life as mother and designer to give us a look at her updated studio space (you may remember her from a past tour), wit...

Inspiration: Working at the Window

Even those whose work is not so poetic as to involve the contemplation of nature still deserve a desk with a view. To be able to sit in the natural light while working, or to take a break every so oft...

Home Office and Crafting Room Roundup

While researching sewing and craft rooms, we realized that many of these rooms have a tech element besides the sewing machine, with home office and entertainment integrated alongside expected crafting...

Before & After: Jason's Closet Office

Even the most talented and organized among us have a lot of accumulated office junk. The above accumulation belongs to Jason Loper, the brains behind Zola Jones Designs, a line of stylish and efficien...

Rainn Wilson's Home Office/Man Cave

We don't get cable, so DIY Network's show Man Caves hasn't really flown onto our radar until now. We just stumbled upon these images from a past episode where the team designed a man cave/home office ...

Inspiration: The "Other Side" of Katrina's Office

A home office always seems to accumulate a lot of junk, doesn't it? In our own home office, we try to keep our desk itself as neat as possible, but there's always one corner of the room where the buil...

Workspace Inspiration: Paola's Attic Studio

Another studio for the inspiring workspace files... this one belongs to Paola Panelli of Atelier Pompadour, whose fabulous cartographic pillows Beth discovered a few weeks ago. The quiet energy and so...

Inspiration: Well-Appointed Desks

click thumbnails for larger picsWe just moved into a new space where we finally have room for a small desk. We rounded up these inspirational images of well-appointed desk areas in an effort to creat...

Can You Work on the Floor?

Those of you who work at home may recognize this schedule: A couple of hours at the actual desk, an hour at the kitchen table, another hour on the couch, maybe even (loath to admit it!) an hour or so ...

Roundup: Fun File Folders for Tax Day

click thumbnails for larger picsCongratulations on having (almost) made it through another tax day! Now that you've filed with the IRS, it's time to file your own copies of all those forms and receip...

The Home Office: Balancing Comfort, Function, and Style

click thumbnails for larger picsFor those of us who work from home, the question of how to integrate the office into the home can be a tough one. Of course the workspace needs to encourage productivi...

Roundup: Creating a Small Office Space

How many apartments do you know that have a room solely devoted to a home office? We're drawing a blank, but in most cases a desk and chair will do just fine, and can fit in even the smallest of space...

Instructables How To: Make A Magnetic Poster Board

Often times when we check out Instructables, the tutorials can seem a bit more than the average bear is ready to take on. But this tutorial for making a standard poster and frame into a functional w...

Using Binder Clips To Keep Things In Line
Country Home

We are super big fans of smart organization, especially when they are ideas that can have multiple uses like this bulletin board. It's original intent is to hold business cards and notes, but we thi...

Look! Cereal Box Drawer Organizer

Cereal boxes make great material for home office DIY projects, since their dimensions work with standard paper and magazine sizes (case in point: this cereal box magazine holder). Here's another ide...

Out of Office
California Home and Design

California Home and Design recently put together their top picks for the home office. The picks include desks, chairs, and accessories. Although most of the items are far out of our financial reach,...

Inspiration: Leah's Dining Room Workspace

Like many apartment dwellers, we don't have a dedicated office in our place, so when we started working from home our dining room became a dining room/office. We were happy to see that Leah's recent d...

eBay Scavenger: Home Office

We're working on pulling together our home office before the fall rolls 'round. Jump below to check out the great pieces we're coveting for our work space... ...

Establishing a Creative Space
Domino Magazine

Like many of you out there, we do a good portion of our work from home. It can be both creatively stimulating (we're surrounded by all the books, magazines, and inspirational stuff we love) and incred...

Before and After: Our Kitchen/Office Space, Part 1

before (jump below for after) This image ring a bell? You might remember it as our messy, unorganized chaotic work/play space that we unabashedly showed off a few weeks back....we still have a long w...

Student Desk at Overstock.com

Look familiar? The Student Desk at Overstock.com looks suspiciously like the West Elm Parson's desk, at half the price. And unless you've been living under a rock (and no offense if you are, sounds...

Good Questions: Help Me Fix My "Office/Me-Space"

AT, I'm a mom of 2 young kids headed back to work part time soon, but the room I'd like to use as my "office/me-space" is a bit of a disaster, and I'm writing to see if you or your readers have any...