This bed-studio with storage ladder is a symbol of NOT-procrastination. Every element in the room is designed for work without impediment or delay: the neat arrangement of camera, brushes, books, snug against the tumbled bed, in good light….with the resulting art on the wall. Inspiring.
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On design sites recently, we’ve been noticing quite a few interesting iterations of industrial storage cabinets —new and vintage—as furniture, like the classic Bisley 10-drawer steel storage cabinet, above. We’ve relied on the trusty Ikea lacquered metal Helmer drawer cabinets ($39) for years,
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Flavorwire’s recents 10 Design Solutions for Working in Bed has me both intrigued and concerned. From a design perspective, I was interested to see what some designers came up with for bed/desk solutions, because who doesn’t like to work in bed at some point? Ikea’s MALM occasional table (above) is an accessible solution; it has casters so you can roll…
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There is no getting away for my thing for cement. Fantasies of making things out of it abound in ‘improvised life’s archives and for years Working with Cement was in the stack of books on my bedside table. When I was renovating what was to become ‘improvised life’s Laboratory, I contemplated surrounding the tub in…
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A couple of years ago (when ‘the improvised life’ was just an idea), we stumbled on this picture of Tobias Wong‘s file cabinet bed in Reference Library, and bookmarked it, thinking we’d write a post about it someday. It is such a great, direct idea, with many possibilities for implementing in different ways. But we…
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