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Posts tagged “home office”

Tech Tip: Clean Connections With A Coffee Filter

We've had some slow running internet lately and although we've just had new service installed, we still seem to be having a little lag. After checking that all the cables are actually functioning an...

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...

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...

Are you a Mac that Lives With a PC?

If you can believe everything you see on TV, then Mac users must think PC users are all boring accountants who are constantly victims to viruses and PC users think Mac users are all vapid and shallow ...

A Cup Holder Mounted Laptop Tray Saves Hundreds of Dollars

By no means do we encourage you to use your laptop while driving, but there are a lot of people out there who need to use their laptops in their cars. From our recent research on these traveling offic...

Close Up: Adam's Sleek Basement Office for Two

Name: Adam Selwood Location: Melbourne, Australia Now here's inspiration to clean out that basement or attic and make better use of the space. Adam was kind enough to share his work-in-progress ren...

Ford Work Solutions: The Home Office on Wheels

We are spending a lot of time in cars. It's just common sense to have some kind of mobile work integration, so that all those hours spent in gridlock can actually be used for a purpose, instead of jus...

Inspiration: Lofty Office Living in Paddington

Another spiffy home office loft renovation joins the ranks in this month's edition of "Inside Out" magazine. Lead by inspired blogger and designer Matt Eastwood, the home received multiple wall-knockd...

Before & After: Dr. Rabbit's IKEA Home Office Makeover

We've seen lots of before and afters here at Unplggd, from cable box magic tricks to disappearing desktops, but an entire home office done using 90% IKEA stuff? This, we've got to see......

Courtney's Shared Home Office Space

While working from home has its perks, it would be a nice change of pace to share an office space with an individual or two. In Courtney's home office, her workspace is divvied up between her and her...

Look! The Perfect TV Stand Room Divider

Having a huge loft has its perks, including the ability to sprawl out and have a multi-use space that incorporates an office, home theater, and conversation area all into one centralized local. But wh...

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...

Make the Most of Tech When You Work from Home

We all spend a lot of time and money getting our home offices looking good (That's why we're all here reading Unplggd, isn't it?). It makes you want to spend every minute that you can in there. You mi...

Flickr Finds: Diagonal Multimedia Storage

We started getting a little seasick after running into these interestingly structured wall-shelves over at the Program offices in Berlin......

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 ...

Unplggd's Favourite Small Space Desks for Laptop Users

Our home office is smaller than any cubicle we've ever had to work within, measuring about 5'x6.5' in usable space. This means in our current configuration the area dictates we optimize every square ...

Why Not Shop Outside the Home Office Department?

If you saw my earlier post, you know I was in the market for a most unconventional desk: A round pedestal table. Well, during my search, I quickly realized that my shopping task would take me outside ...

Look! Home Tech Gets The Swedish Touch

click for more picsProfessional real estate stalker Jo from Desire To Inspire recently stumbled onto this wonderful space done by a group of interior designers for a show called "Finally Home" on Chan...

Close-Up: A Home Office for the Baroque at Heart

click for more pics Forgive us. We found this on Ikea's Swedish site and Google translator has not helped us out much in figuring out how this beautiful room came together. Translation issues aside, ...

Flickr Find: A Cluttered Office Done Right

We all want to have those sleek, minimalistic workspaces. An elegant task table with nothing but a power-cord-less laptop, a simple flower arrangement and a cup of coffee weighing it down. But lets fa...

Inspiration: Contrasting New Tech Within An Old Space

We're not too sure if this falls into the category of 'office' or 'castle,' but either way it looks like a mighty fine place to work. This beautiful office space in Turkey was built within the walls o...

ICFF: Luximo LED Task Light

We saw this Luximo LED Task Light at ICFF and had to stop and take a pic. it's slim, it's elegant, it's bright and it's part of the leading edge in LED design. Winning the 2008 Lighting for Tomorrow...

ICFF: Sabino Aprile's Ribalta Desk

Our favourite home office desk of the ICFF show, this small footprint desk from Italian furniture designers, Sabino Aprile, appeals to our preference to hide away our home tech when not in use. The Ri...

Zoning Off the Home Office From the Home Entertainment

There was this great post over at Apartment Therapy DC about using bookshelves as partitions to create "zones" within an open space. This is especially a great idea for those of us who have to work ri...

Inspiration: A Personal Cyber Attic

While it's not our first time witnessing the transformation of attics into dedicated home theaters, this comfortable confine refines the purpose of having sloped ceilings, which contributes to improvi...