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The StudyBed Converts from Workstation Desk to Bed

Obviously aimed at the dorm/student demographic, but also a viable option for small space dwellers, the StudyBed is quick converting desk into bed solution that offers a decent amount of desk space an...

5 Tips for Productivity: Improving the Daily Desk Flow

Have a messy desk? Guilty here. Just upgraded to Snow Leopard? Guilty again. Well, if you're like us, you've still got the packaging material, discs, and a pile of papers cluttering up our desks. It's...

Quad Modular System as Tiny Workstation

The Quad is a modular storage system lasercut from 100% steel and lacquered to a smooth, shiny finish, which means it's strong enough not only to hold all your books and belongings, but it can also ...

Carbon Fiber Desk: Hello, Office of the Future

When we think "carbon fiber," the first images that pop into our mind are of sleek Formula One-grade vehicle parts or bike frames, but this is probably the first time we've ever seen it applied to the...

Pottery Barn's Wired-Up Beadboard Desk

Man, Pottery Barn sure knows how to get us techies going. They're always on the scene with some small (like a power station) or big (like a projector-screen-bookcase) solutions to help us integrate ou...

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...

Small Space Solution: Double Desks

When two people live together in an apartment, a double desk is one way to maximize your home office. Rather than have two separate work areas, which would eat up more space, a double desk consolida...

Using Floating Shelves and Hidden Cables Effectively

In an effort to remain uncluttered and to keep a spartan working space, there are a few ways to keep things clean and tidy. Above all, we like it when wires aren't apparent. It's natural to have a bun...

Gorocool: The Cooled Articulated Laptop Desk

It's becoming more and more true that most people work exclusively on laptops. Desktops are becoming rarer sine they lack the portability of laptops. Look around and you'll see that this is true. The ...

Friction from Your Mouse Can Keep Coffee Hot

Are you a workaholic? A coffee-holic? Are you both?! Wouldn't it be great if your two vices could help each other out?...

Good Questions: Cheap Alternative to this Laptop Desk?

Q - Hello all! I'm looking for a cheap alternative to this lightweight laptop desk available at Urban Outfitters right now. They're trying to charge an arm and a leg for it, but I'm sure it can be fou...

10 DIY Projects That Will Save You Money & Space

Back to school season seems to fuel the diy and creative spirit around your spaces. You can't help but be thrifty and creative with new spaces that seem smaller and more akward (the closest outlet...

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, ...

Final Frame: Balancing the Old and New

The architecture offices of Novan & Vesson....

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...

Look! Use a Whiteboard as a Desktop

Whiteboards, whether adapted for use in the home or in the office, are a great tool for brainstorming, jotting down notes and keeping a daily score of the To-Do's, Have-Done's and "Please don't forget...

Sophomore Sophistication: The Coolest Dorm Ever

Heading back to school? Check out these photos of student Aaron Francis' college room in a rent house. The whole room is 10 feet by 11 feet, but Aaron manages to pack it with high-tech function and mi...

Inspiration: Speakers In Strange Places

Yeah, yeah.. we get it. Speaker location super important when it comes to proper stereo imaging, but what if you don't care about all that? What if making your place feel welcoming trumps having a pa...

How To: Increase Your Workspace Productivity

It happens to the best of us. A magazine here. Old bills there. And things just start to pile up. Luckily, Gina Trapani from the Harvard Business Review has a few workplace producivity tips to help us...

Final Frame: Face to Face Workstations

Green, white and gray face to face workstations, as posted by Maik Fahldieck of dieKosmonauten ...

DIY Project: Make Your Own Floating Computer Desk Using Countertops

We love floating shelves. Why? Well because they seem to float and take up almost no space. What if we told you that you could easily transform an Ikea countertop into a neat little computer workstati...

Home Office: High, Low & Even Lower

Our friends over at Metropolitan Home put together a great High Low comparison of two home offices. The savings from one to the other is well over $10,000, but we haven't met anyone lately who's wil...

Inspiration: Don't Get Stuck in a Screen

We all spend a lot of time and probably a lot of money making our desks look great. After all—whether your primary workspace is at home or in an office building—you've got to stare at it f...

Roundup: Thin Profile, Wall-Mounted Desks

While the recent article about how truly green we're being by going completely paperless over at Re-Nest came across to us as a fair argument, we just couldn't help but fall in love with the sexy wall...