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A Creative Solution to Desks Seen From Below

When organizing your desk to look clean and clutter-free, step one is to hide your cords by tucking them under the desktop where they won't be seen. Well, that's not so easy for our lofted readers....

Foldable Kitchen Scale for Your Weighing Needs

No, we've never actually needed a kitchen scale in our lives. But one day, we will and we will absolutely wish we had such a cool, foldable kitchen scale as this one......

Hide Your Laptop with a Newspaper-Styled Sleeve

Incognito is the way to go if you're trying to prevent theft or just unfair tampering. Use this newspaper sleeve to hide your laptop from burglars or snoopy roommates out to leave you an embarrassing ...

Stealth Tech Tricks: 5 Ways to Hide Your Wireless Router

If you have the luxury of more than one cable or phone line around the house, that means you have options for router camo. Because who likes looking at detracting flashing lights during a movie night,...

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 Find: Making the TV a Graphic Element

We already know how decorating around your TV can be a challenge. One of the best solutions we've discussed is to make sure that your TV takes a backstage to great furniture and decorations, even fadi...

How to... Paint a Ceiling Speaker Grill

So you're finally the proud owner of a home and you're ready to set up the most rocking home theater that anyone on the block has ever seen. You've installed an enormous pull-down projector screen and...

Rock Band Storage Ottoman—With Drum Lift!

It's no secret we love to play Rock Band and look damn good doing it. But making sure our living room looks good long after we've strummed our last strum? Not so easy. Those guitars, the mic stand (ye...

A Cool DIY Way to store Your Keyboard Off Your Desk

If you're short on space and trying out some form of the zero-footprint wall-mounted office, or if you've got one monitor working double duty as both TV and computer for a little extra calmness in the...

A Curiously Strong DIY Project... Do You See It?

If you were scrolling down the page just now, looking at the pictures to see what catches your eye but not really reading the words, then you must have bad breath or just be a fan of really minty mint...

DIY Cord Wrangler Hides Peripheral Wires

We all struggle sometimes with keeping a clean desk, some more than others. Me? I'm having an impossible time. I bought a great looking desk not too long ago, the only caveat being that it has no draw...

How To: Camouflage Your Wii Sensor Bar

Honestly we didn't think that the Wii sensor bar, the thin bar that you probably put on top of your TV to read your Wii-motes' signals, was ever a mess to hide. Nintendo did a pretty good job of makin...

How To... Hide Your USB Drive in The Wall

If you're a secret double agent for the CIA, or if you're a government conspiracist, or if you're a former Wall Street CEO that needs to hide your bank records, have we got the solution for you! This ...

Oficio: The Mullet of Workstations

The Oficio Worktable by Quentin Vaulot and Luiza Barroso attempts to "visualize the creative process as it progresses from chaos to order." We think it does an accurate job of capturing the spirit of ...