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Posts tagged “inspiration”

The Bed Embedded Clock Lets You Check Time Easily

How many times do you have to get up or glance at a clock while you are in bed? It happens to us quite often, but we simply love this idea of simply putting a clock underneath your bedspread and let y...

Egg Collective's Stump Light

Ah, Egg Collective's Stump lighting makes us wish we had room for a woodworking shop. It's a creative and nature-themed way to illuminate the room using fallen sycamore stumps, while also providing ...

Maisie Maud Broadhead's Cable Art

Here at Unplggd we often extol the virtues of hiding cables and wires. Normally this is the preferred aim in creating a visually satisfying space, one devoid of visible hardware and cable clutter. B...

And the Rest of Twitter's New Office

Just a moment ago, Taryn reported on her favourite element from the new Twitter Headquarters. We wanted to follow up with rest of their new office (they moved just around the corner from their old ...

Inside the Offices of Mono Minneapolis
Tech Tour

While we like to concentrate on the home, here at Unplggd, we often find inspiration in the offsite offices of large companies like Facebook and Suicide Girls. Now we give you a tour of another in...

Inspiring Celestial Suspension Lights By Bastien Carre

There's just something magical about having suspended ceiling lights arranged like constellations. We just love how these lights look. Hopefully, by looking at these, you'll find some new ways of arr...

Ogilvy & Mather Guangzhou Office

The incredible space of Ogilvy & Mather’s Guangzhou office is one I wouldn't mind calling home (or work). The Carnival themed office was selected as one of the recipients of last year's third annu...

Moto Designshop Designs a House with an Elevator Garage

One of the worst ways to wake up it to realize that your car isn't parked in the appropriate alternate side parking spot. You rush out, jammies still on, eyes still crusted over, and then drive aroun...

Computer-Monitor-as-TV-Screen Done Right!

Yeah, yeah. We're always hearing about how your home computer—with it's DVD drive and connectivity to Hulu and Netflix—can completely replace your TV screen and cable box. We've just ne...

Inspiration: Deltalab Recording Sutdio

DeltaLab Recording Studios, "the world's first designer recording studio", was founded in 2001 by 19 year old Thomas Troelsen and has recorded the likes of Bryan Adams. In 2007, they upgraded and re...

Tetris Chair

We've posted about Tetris inspired furniture before, but we're pretty sure this chair takes it to the next level. It also seems to be taking influence from another popular toy in the '80's. We're ...

Creating a Corner with IKEA Dioder LED Strips

It doesn't take all to much to transform a corner of a room into a LED illuminated section of the house with TRON inspired personality, as shown here by Roel's laptop corner. All you need is a set of ...

Notting Hill House's TV Above the Fireplace

There are three types of people in this world. Those who don't mind having their TV hung above their fireplace, those who downright hate it, and those who prefer to hide it more than anything else. Th...

Creating a Home Theater in a Closet

We like this ideas from San Interior Design, which shows how one could gut out a bedroom closet to be used for the purpose of creating an inset bedroom home theater setup (or a home office). Many home...

Framing a Flatscreen with a Wooden Crate Frame?

Here's a low cost, slummin' it type of idea that might work if you're desiring a found object storage solution for your flat panel television. The rooms at Berlin designer Werner Aisslinger's The Mich...

Making Tech Blend Into the Background

Uruguayan interior design team, None Fossati and Fiorella Galli, have done an impressive job of blending in a plethora of office tech items for advertising agency AMÉN's inspiring work space. With ...

Technicolor: Yellow

When we think of the color yellow, we immediately think of home tech. There are hundreds and hundreds of home tech products that are yellow and we thought we'd give you a little heads up. Sometime...

Technicolor: Blue

As retro as red goes, blue still does it for me. Blue like the ocean, the bright skies, and the color of my first Nike kicks. Oh, how I loved those shoes. In honor of childhood memories and the good o...

Incredible Floating Monitors and Thought Out Workstation

There's one thing to say about a well-organized workstation. It makes working a lot easier and pleasurable. This has got to be one of the more inspiring workstations that we've come across, and this i...

Inspiring Multi-Monitor Home Office Uses Darker Colors

Having more than one monitor is really handy when you work from home. However, sometimes, and sadly more often than we would like, multi-monitor workstations tend to look like air traffic control cent...

Incredible Piet Indoor Stove Will Enable New Layouts

Above all, this object is really beautiful. It's hard to tell what it is, but once the clean-burning ethanol fire is lit, you get the idea. This is basically a reinvented fireplace. Since it uses etha...

Alonso's Brings Music Into the Bathroom

Unplggd reader Alonso sent us a DIY audio speaker solution which brought music into his bathroom with a handsome finish that would make any shower or bath a more relaxing (or exciting) time accompan...

Change Your Speaker Like Artcoustic's Crystal Line

Speakers tend to be big and black. In order to look good, you got to get creative. It's kind of amazing what some high-end speaker companies are able to do with their speakers. For example, the Artcou...

Hiding the Television Behind Artwork

Our friends at KNQ Associates recently posted this before & after of a decor project they completed in Singapore for a client who wanted to revamp their whole home. The home offices are wonderfully d...

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...