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Posts tagged “organizing”

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...

How to Keep Your Apartment Organized Using Google

There are many ways of keeping an apartment organized but things get complicated quickly when you have more than one adult living together. Things can get especially hectic when you've got roommates, ...

An Easy Solution To Storing Your Extra Parts & Pieces

The addition of new, shiny gizmos and gadgets leaves us with the unfortunate byproduct of wires and cables we don't need. Getting rid of such things usually just means we'll end up buying them again...

Luciol's Digital Bookmarks Organizes Your Real World Library

While placing bookmarks may seem like an everyday, even mundane, task for some, there's always room for improvement when you make it go digital. In comes Luciol, a digital bookmarking device by Defne ...

eninal Tray: Organize Your Office on Your Wall

Art as organization, or is it organization as art? Either way, having all your office supplies accessible but not in a messy pile on your desk is a challenge for many of us. You can go with a beautifu...

Blu Dot Juice Box

When we hear Blu Dot, we instantly think slick desks and slick chairs. Now we can add slick gadget charging accessories to that list. While we have showcased some nice DIY solutions to charging your p...

Bluelounge CableDrop Keeps Your Peripheral Cables In Check

Bluelounge's SpaceStation currently does a great job of hiding a lot of our peripheral USB cables (alongside providing additional ports), but we still have a tangle of cables and wires behind it leadi...

SUCK UK's Pre-Grunged CD & Vinyl Dividers

LPs are on their way back and seeing increasing sales over the past few years, thanks in no small part to big artists releasing content exclusively on vinyl. If you're starting a collection, or you're...

Pop Art Makeover Results in Pole Mounted TV

While this before and after update over at Apartment Therapy LA met with some pretty mixed reactions, it did have one very unplggd worthy element worth pointing out....the TV mount. While it seems lik...

Close-Up: Homeschool Classroom
Class is in session!

click for more pics Despite the fact that the feds have earmarked $100 million in stimulus to save public school jobs, many schools schools are taking major hits due to city budget. Public schools we...

The Room by ODA: Perfect Modular Cubbyholes

How about having smaller modular rooms, rooms that can be adjusted to your needs? Adults love lofts and giant spaces. Kids have a tendency to dislike large open space. Most kids enjoy having their own...

Christoph Niemann Hates Cables Too
The New York Times

We've seen Christoph Niemann's pixelated bathroom and shown you his interpretation of New York life in Legos, now the artist tackles one of our biggest pet peeves, cables. According to Christoph's ...

Wolverine Makes a Damn Good Cord Wrangler

You gotta love scouring GeekSugar for random-but-brilliant observations. That's where we spotted a cool solution of storing your myriad of coffee table remotes in an elegant glass vase. Now, something...

Design and Furnish Your Home With This Software

It's like clockwork. Every 4-5 months we get tired of how our home is set-up and start rearranging. Maybe the TV should be here? This new artwork would look great on this wall, but then we need to mo...

DIY Project: Lack Hack Turns Bookcase into A/V Cabinet

Oh the Ikea Lack line. How many ways can we hack thee? DIYers out there have found countless ways to use Lack shelves to shelve their gizmos. From a fan-cooled media cabinet to a monitor stand, the v...

Joggler Family Hub Calendar Syncs With Cells

From UK mobile service provider O2 comes the Joggler. While it certainly has the distinction of the least descriptive name ever, it could be a revolutionary product in the realm of family communicatio...

How To...Sell Old DVDs in a Few Clicks

Last weekend we decided to get our Spring cleaning on. We went through everything, purging where we could. As we went through the storage containers we had forgotten about years ago in our closets we...

Roundup: Ten Best Looking Elfa Solutions

Man, remember when the Container Store's Elfa storage system was for just that -- storing. It was for maximizing closet space and for all intents and purposes, to stay hidden in a closet. These days ...

Too Many Remotes? Here's an Idea for Clearing Your Coffee Table...

With a media room packed with gadgets for TV, DVD, Blu Ray, Digital Cable, CD and MP3 entertainment, remote storage is sure to get tricky. You could turn to our post on the best remote control storage...

How to: Make a Toilet Roll Extension Cord Holder

We've got a drawer full of unruly extensions cords that we've been trying to unsuccessfully keep in order with rubber bands and twist ties. While looking for cable management solutions, we found a tip...

Ikea's Living Room Storage Ideas

Occasionally Ikea sends out PDFs with ideas on how the company's goods can help organize and beautify a space. Now we're not sure about you, but we don't have the luxury of having two Philips flat sc...

Contact Lens Case Small Parts Tray

We don't know about you, but we have a small tool collection of tiny screws and other miscellaneous parts from hard drives, disassembled printers and other accessories. On occasion, we've even lost so...

Martha Stewart Addresses the Rumor Mill
No, she isn't Obama's pick for head of the FDA

Remember when we reported on Martha Stewart's minimal office upgrade at her new location in Manhattan? Well the domestic goddess herself has decided to correct the rumors both on her site and her sho...

Look! The Incredible Camera Lens Calendar

After the Zoom Lens Coffee Mug, now comes the Camera Lens Calendar. This is going to be the perfect gift for anyone who loves photography. I can already see them popping up everywhere. We love this lo...