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Moss Carpet and Natural Light = Park-Like Home Office

Posted: 16 May 2013 10:00 AM PDT

As working from home becomes more common around the world, home office designs continue to get more creative and stylish. The small home office of Nidolab Arquitectura in Argentina creates a natural-feeling space indoors.

The tiny office is only 54 square meters but manages to create an open, outdoorsy environment. The centerpiece of the office is a moss carpet in a number of different shades. The textures of the mossy floor covering make the office feel like a little piece of nature.

In the center of the room, a floating timber platform supports a large conference table, providing ample space for meetings and for individual work spaces.

Thanks to abundant skylights and a huge window, the office doesn’t require much electricity during the day. It relies on natural lighting, which enhances the natural, organic feel of the workspace.

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Kitchen Grater Lets You Use Butter Right From the Fridge

Posted: 15 May 2013 04:00 PM PDT

If you enjoy a nice piece of toast in the morning, you probably fall into either the margarine camp or the butter camp. And those who prefer butter know that, although it offers a superior taste experience, it’s also nearly impossible to spread on even the warmest of toast without some level of frustration and bread tearing. Leave it to the creative minds in Japan to come up with an elegant solution to this daily household problem.

The Easy Butter Grater looks a lot like the Parmesan cheese graters you see used in certain Italian restaurants to grate long strings of cheese over plates of pasta. You put a cold brick of butter into the gadget, snap the cover on, and then twist. The butter is transformed from an unspreadable brick into easily-meltable, easily-spreadable tendrils of deliciousness.

Although hard butter is most definitely a first-world problem and this gadget is in no way a necessity, it would be pretty cool to be able to easily use butter straight out of the fridge without first having to microwave it. The grater goes for ¥2,300 (around $23 US) at this Japanese website.