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Small Space Workplace: Transform a Closet Into an Office

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:00 AM PDT

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Finding extra space in any home can be a challenge, but finding space for a home office seems to be especially confounding. If you have a spare closet (like the cluttered mess above) and a free weekend, you may have an office waiting to happen. According to this how-to at Country Living, transforming a closet into a beautiful workspace is as simple as wallpapering, painting, and installing a few simple key components. The most complex part of the transformation is the desk, constructed of two filing cabinets and a pre-made melamine desktop.

While this particular aesthetic may not appeal to everyone, the ideas presented in this transformation are extremely adaptable to any taste. Making use of the depth of the closet as well as the space on the inside of the doors, the tiny office offers nearly as much storage space as the standard cubicle-size workspace. Changing up the wallpaper, paint colors and accessories to match the rest of your home and your personal tastes, you can make a small closet into a home office that you might not mind working in.

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Style That Grows on Trees: Shrub-Inspired Steel Tables

Posted: 11 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under Tables & Stands & in the Furniture category ]

These simple dining and side tables all share a gracefully natural aesthetic that makes them appear almost as though they were grown rather than made. According to Chinese designer Zhili Liu, this connection to the brilliant designs of nature is both intentional and beneficial.

The Shrub table series features very thin tabletops with thin steel rods forming the “branches” on which the tops sit. These branches help to spread out the stress of the tabletops, giving a wide distribution of force rather than four small points of force as in a regular four-legged table.

Scattered across the top are exposed sunken screws, indicating where each branch is attached to the aluminum sheet. The screws also become decorative in this context, dotting the surfaces of the tables with unexpected splashes of both color and texture.

According to the designer, this series reverses the usual concept of Chinese craftsmanship (high volume, low quality) and presents a product that uses traditional techniques to make something that is lovely, useful, high quality and made with easily sourced materials.