Apartment Therapy: organizing

Hide My Cables Custom Built Boxes

We love our IKEA SIGNUM cable box. It does a great job of keeping wires and cables out of sight (and was very affordable). But it also seems to have been discontinued. The Bluelounge Cable Box is a ha...

Switch On/Off Magnets Between Memo Holder and Photo Display

We have magnet up all over our kitchen holding up recipes so they don't get soaked or dirty while making meals. We actually installed Three by Three's mini magnetic strips to our cabinet doors so we'...

Dymo Labelwriter Lets You Skip the Post Office

We never thought we'd say this, but we are lusting after this... label maker! After Gregory posted about the wonders he's discovered with his own label maker, we started looking at what's available. ...

Great Idea For Tangle-Proof Headphones

We're a bit amazed that noone else had come up with the same idea as Lee Washington's tangle proof headphones concept (yes, there was the zipper style concept, but not exactly the same), but we really...

Organizer's Tool: DYMO LetraTag Labelmaker

We have no idea now why we had gone without a labelmaker for so long. We finally got around to redoing our whole home office, top to bottom, with the goal of truly getting our %^@! in order after seve...

IKEA GALANT and Pegboard Desk Modification

Friend and hiking blogger extraordinaire Kolby Kirk of 100hikes.com sent us his IKEA desk hack which utilizes pegboard and zip cords as a way to counter tech clutter by attaching hardware like a USB h...

Krumnikl Environment

We love when we purchase furniture and it ends up being the absolute perfect fit in our home. An even better love is when all of our electronics and gadgets are also perfect fits. Unfortunately, s...

Camouflaging Home Tech in Complete Chaos

For the most part, we all want to hide our gadgets within our homes. One of the ways to do this is to simply hide them, in cabinets, consoles, behind paintings, and in closets. Another way is to simp...

Hot or Not? DNA Helix CD Rack

We know a lot of you ditched the CD for digital, but for those of you still buying these little discs, here's an interesting way to store them. ...

GRID-IT Helps Keep Your Tech Glut in Check

We like to consider ourselves pretty clean and organized by any standard. But there's an issue that plagues us regularly: tech clutter. It's part of our job to plug this in, route that around, and t...

Organizing Ideas for a Music Station

Lately, we've been seeing a lot of vinyl collections popping up in Apartment Therapy house tours. It makes us think that, although wireless technology is improving, there's still something about res...

Three Free Mac Desktop Calendars

Some people like to keep personal photos or attractive art on their computer desktops. Others like to match their desktops to their decor. But the most productive techies among us would probably prefe...

Muro Media Storage for Flat Panel TVs

Here's a case of a great design, but at a price that we're not sure is warranted considering the materials used. The Muro Media Storage from DWR is a very smart design which allows for custom paint or...

Kangaroom Bamboo Office System

Here's for all you lovers of wooden accessories who also want to keep their tech mess in check. The Kangaroom Bamboo Office system is comprised of a Laptop Stand Workstation, two different accessori...

Pottery Barn Smart Technology Daily System

We've posted about Pottery Barn's Smart Furniture line before, noting the tasteful incorporation of home audio and video options with Pottery Barn's signature style of decor. They've updated their l...

Brendan's DIY Hide the Wires Project Video

One of our former bloggers over from Re-Nest sent us this video of an audition tape for a DIY network show (it's about 10 minutes long, so you might fast forward to about :56 to skip the intro spiel...

Etsy Find: iPhone Paper Clips

We're suckers for awesome office supplies; spending way too long in the office supply aisle is definitely a guilty pleasure. It doesn't help our obsession when the office supplies are perfectly mod...

Roundup: Five Best DIY Cable Management Solutions

If there's one thing people tend to complain about post in and post out on Unplggd, it's messy wires. There isn't a post that goes by where someone doesn't comment, "Looks great! Now they just have to...

Cablox Cable Management

Cablox is a new cable management solution that fastens, bundles, shortens cables and sticks on virtually all clean surfaces for under the desk or anywhere else application. The tentacle suckers desi...

Renters, How Do You Battle Cable-Forced Room Layouts?

Having just been apartment shopping not too long ago, we are fresh to the notion that one of the most important things to consider in a candidate for a new space is the location of power outlets and c...

Use Rain Gutters to Wrangle Under-Desk Wires

BEFORE. Click here for the "after" shot.Above is the "before" shot of Lifehacker reader Seandavid010's tangled mess of a desk. But he got a new desk and a new outlook on cord management when he decide...

Tech Tip: Give Yourself a Desk Landing Strip for Your Gadgets

If you've been reading Apartment Therapy, we're sure you already know about the virtues of having a "landing strip" at the most-used entrance to your humble digs. Whether it's a basket or a shelf or a...

How to Organize Your Computer Wires Using Cable Cubes

How is the back of your desk or computer? Messy or clean? For us, keeping our wires untangled is always a work in progress. Even when you take the time to organize them, it doesn't take long until the...

Before & After: Cablebox Disappearing Act

Here's a great before and after showing how the Bluelounge Cablebox can really get your jumble of wires and surge protector in order. The folks over at house42.com had the typical-normal tangle of wi...

Inspiration: Thomas Wold's Built to Order Photographer's Office

Here's hoping we don't overdose you with Thomas Wold projects. We promise we'll take a break from him after this post, but we recently checked in with his blog and found so many inspirational project...

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