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Amanda's Mid-Century Media Room
Flickr Finds

A few weeks ago, Amanda shared her lovely home in Ohio with us, along with a thorough walkthrough of her adventurous TV mounting project that would eventually marry her love for tech and her excellent...

A Simple Media Center With Seamless Surround Sound

We love the sound we get from our surround sound speakers. But with the curse of being a renter, it's always tough to lay out the speakers and still keep everything looking fresh......

Give Your Screened-In Eyes a Spot to Rest

We've got to think about what we look at from our desks. But if your workspace lacks a window with a garden view or a lush campus vista, you might just want to create a bare spot to save your eyes fro...

DIY Tilt Shift Camera Hack
Flickr Find

We've talked about tilt shift photography before with a snazzy iPhone app, it helps with selective focus and miniaturing subjects in your photographs. But, buying professional gear to make it work i...

Ivy's Little Home Office Corner

Here's an inspiration we caught while looking over a past post over at Apartment Therapy San Francisco, Inspiration: Decorating with Neutrals. Amongst the neutral hued photos was Ivy's really cute, if...

A Simple Desk Near the Door

Of all the places in your home to put a desk, you might not think about tucking it near the doorway. But after glancing at this image we found on Flickr, we might be switching over to using our worksp...

Adam's Wardrobe Home Office

Take a peek inside this space efficient home office tucked away inside a folded door closet, hiding a compact workstation composed of an Apevia X-QPACK Micro-ATX Case and a Samsung N310 netbook... ...

Flickr Finds: Pieter's Turquoise Home Office

Oh, home office spaces... how we love them so. It's where you get into the "zone," as we all like to call it. Where we get our most frustrating moments and our most spectacular ones. Toss in high ce...

Flickr Finds: Beautiful Pressure Mounted Media Stand

Finding the perfect vintage piece to hold your new tech is skill. Furniture built pre- televisions, DVD players, video game systems tend not to hold the shelving, cabinets, drawers, and electrical c...

Flickr Roundup: Kids & Their Home Tech

Parents are very adamant about their views about technology in the home. Some say there's no TV until a certain age (although sometimes online videos count) and likewise, there's those who keep co...

Flickr Find: Minimalist Mac Desk

We can talk about clearing the clutter on our desks all day long, but it's a rare fleeting moment that it actually happens. So when we come across someone who has actually achieved the task, we have...

Flickr Finds: Wall Mounted Bedside TV

It's not uncommon for TVs to have a home in the bedroom. We don't recommend it as we've been told that watching TV right before bed can cause Mr. Sandman to take longer, but if you must, we like this...

A DIY Sleek Desk that Hides All Your Goodies

We have to say—nothing makes our day more than spotting an easy and cheap solution to our everyday home tech woes. Case in point: Unsightly peripherals and tangles of cord are given the "Out of...

Flickr Finds: Dorm Room With a View

We cannot stress the importance of building a calm surrounding for your hectic workspace. It helps to be able to instantly cut working tension by looking up at a stellar view. Good advice for anyone, ...

Flickr Finds: Steve Price's Incredible 9-Monitor Custom Desk

For some home offices, usual desks don't work. It's in these instances that a DIY solution is best. The great thing about designing something yourself is that you can get it customized to your own nee...

Flickr Find: California Casual Home Theater

This self-proclaimed Cali Casual home theater is certainly clean and simple, but does all the high-tech gadgetry in the otherwise sparse room overwhelm the potential calmness that you'd want in your l...

Flickr Find: DIY Built-In Kitchen Computer

Whether they're used for looking up recipes, pulling up cooking show clips on YouTube or just killing time on Twitter while you wait for the water to boil, we're seeing computers in the kitchen poppin...

Flickr Find: Making the TV a Graphic Element

We already know how decorating around your TV can be a challenge. One of the best solutions we've discussed is to make sure that your TV takes a backstage to great furniture and decorations, even fadi...

Flickr Find: A Makeshift Landing Strip

We all want to have the perfect little landing strip. A convenient area by the doorway we use most with plenty of surfaces and enough storage to drop all of the day's burdens—your cell phone, iP...

Flickr Find: Dodecahedral Speakers!

No, you're not looking at a shrine to d12 dice. This wacky dodecahedral speaker (meaning it has twelve faces) is actually a tool used in the Kettering University acoustics lab in Michigan. So what's ...

Flickr Finds: iPod as Nursery Aide

While checking out Steve's great office space, which we hope to post about soon, we saw this great photo of his new son's nursery. The first thing that caught our eye was the iPod and speakers on the...

Flickr Finds: Diagonal Multimedia Storage

We started getting a little seasick after running into these interestingly structured wall-shelves over at the Program offices in Berlin......

Flickr Finds: Mixmaster Student Designs On A Dime

Even with the slightly excessive HDR treatment (the photography technique that helps emphasize this room's bursting contrast and color), there's something undeniably splendid about having such a fine ...

Flickr Find: A Cluttered Office Done Right

We all want to have those sleek, minimalistic workspaces. An elegant task table with nothing but a power-cord-less laptop, a simple flower arrangement and a cup of coffee weighing it down. But lets fa...

Flickr Finds: IT Dudes Love Pink Too!

We love a dude who loves pink! The home office above is of PACS/Linux Systems Analyst Aaron Doucette. Aaron works out of his Quebec home, which he shares with his pup Beta and his fiancée Karley, wh...