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Shop Goodwill Online For Tech Steals

If you have ever shopped at a thrift store for deals, you know that it's a hit and miss operation. Some stores have great selection while others don't. But what happens when Goodwill moves its invento...

Use a Little Leg Work to Find Undoctored Apartment Photos

When you're shopping around for a new apartment, the internet can be an invaluable resource for finding deals and giving you photos to help narrow down your search......

Pawnee Media Console by Shimna

Shimna recently updated their rustic moden low media console with colourful front panels with Corian inserts, for easy open/close action so you can get to your media collection within. Available in ...

Using a Shelf as a Floating Entertainment Unit

When choosing the entertainment unit for your HDTV, it's not always good to use something very large and imposing. Most of the time, something simple and elegant will do the job nicely. That's why we ...

Electric Radiator Incognito as a Coffee Table

Face it: Radiators are ugly. Well, most at least. There's always the occasional designer radiator that makes us go "Ooooh!" with it's sleek lines and gorgeous color, but to see a radiator that combin...

Inspiration: Stylish LED Lighting Underneath Furniture

There is a fine line between tacky and stylish. Some tacky ideas can yield some great results, even if they verge on being completely tacky. We have to say that usually lighting that is put underneath...

Crate & Barrel: Fulton Collection Goes Retro Modern

It's been a while since we've stepped on CB grounds. However, their new Fulton collection sure is capturing our hearts (and wallets) with its trendy minimal lines and mixed materials for a fresh, rust...

MUJI's Thonet Desks: Perfect Laptop Companions

We've been long fans of MUJI's home office and decor offerings since day one, but it's been a while since we've seen us a good desk for laptop computing. Worry no more, as Thonet - one of the oldest f...

Do You Ever Think About the View From Your Desk?

Most often when laying out furniture in a new space, you keep in mind three main considerations: fit, aesthetics and flow. That is: Where stuff can go, how stuff looks and how you're supposed to walk ...

Brikolör Furniture: Built For Simplicity, Built To Last

To continue with our ongoing tech minimalism coverage, we have an ambitious furniture set designed by Brikolör of Göteborg, Sweden. These minimalistic cabinets leave absolutely no room for a receive...

Framing Your Flat Panel

click for more pics Steve Miller of Teo Flatwear sent us some photos of his company's newest flat screen mounting accessories that aesthetically bridge the gap between mounting a set directly onto bar...

Stardust Light Furniture: Like it or Hate it

If you had furniture that could light-up like a spaceship, would that make you happy? Is light something that could be used in furniture without being too awkward? Those are the questions that the Sta...

Look! Gesture Capturing Furniture Prototyping

Fascinating look at Swedish group FRONT Design prototyping furniture using gesture capturing 3D software that converts the virtual motion into Sketch Furniture. [via The Digital Ramble | Furniture D...

Thomas Wold Ocean Media Cabinet

We're really fond of this initially bespoke media cabinet designer Thomas Wold created for an SF client to house their TV alongside provide additional storage...it has a solid heft to it which is bala...

The Flat Pack Office: Revisited

We featured a post a little while ago about two cool pieces of flat-pack office furniture. Little did we know, those two tables were park of a huge undertaking between Because We Can designers and the...

Flickr Finds: The Impossible Office?

We spotted this office on Flickr and were immediately in love. The retro phone! That elegant lamp! The pops of black in the cream-colored space! Beautiful. We realized the space worked so well because...

Lee Broom: Embellishing Old Stuff with New Tech

These art pieces aren't exactly anything you'd buy for your home. But it's pretty interesting to see what some designers are doing to mix technology with home furnishings, and the results are surprisi...

MEdiaCOre: The Living Room PC as Furniture

Slowly but surely, computers are invading our living rooms. As we take the time to get rid of our CD clutter by ripping all of our music and our digital movie collections continue to grow, you need a...

360: The Mulitfunctional Rotating Cabinet By FAK3

Space is always a premium in Asia. This forces design firms to come up with innovative ideas in order to manage space. The 360 is an interesting design, but it does take up a lot of space in a room. T...

Sideboard as Media Center Console

We like this idea the Playmedesign blog proposed about using a sideboard as a media center to offset the heaviness of a flat panel display, whether wall mounted or placed ontop. The only issue is wher...