Split Decision: Shared Home Office Space

Lately, I’ve come across several modern couples living in small spaces struggling with the same design dilemma: how to arrange the office when both partners work from home. Do you line up the work stations side-by-side? Do you stake out different corners of the room? Or do you mirror the desks facing each other or back-to-back?

Images: Tracey Overbeack Stead, The Design Files, Thomas Wold, Elle Décor, Design*Sponge, Apartment Therapy, Design*Sponge, Fritz Hansen.

School's Out for Summer

Maybe it’s all this talk about summer, but I’m feeling pretty nostalgic for my school days. And thanks to the continued schoolhouse trend, I can still reminisce about the good old days when semesters were paced in between long stretches of leisure. I’ve spied plenty of vintage class maps and globes as well as classic school chairs in recent months. But there are plenty of fresh discoveries out there too. Dig deeper into the curriculum (think AV club or even chemistry or math class) for a whole new frontier of scholastic chic.

1. This colorful, vintage German biology chart of a shark is from Austin vintage seller, TwentyTimesI. $195
2. Crafty felter, ShipDirtSa envokes pink and blue penmanship paper with this throw pillow. $40
3. Etsy seller EthanOllie presents a vintage test tube collection as a flower vase alternative. $25
4. This Anthropologie lamp hearkens back to classroom movies before VHS and DVD. $498
5. Get some help keeping count with this brightly colored abacus from CB2. $149
6. Hudson Goods has a modern take on old-school lockers with this industrial chic design. $1,195
7. Etsy seller Concept Furnishings offers this classroom anatomical frog model as a whimsical trinket for your adult cabinet of curiosities. $225
8. Flickr user Lak B Designs uses painted lockers as behind-the-door storage.
9. TortoiseLovesDonkey upgrades a flask to a tiny terrarium for small air plants. $12.75

A Classier Side of Hollywood

How excited are you for this flick?

Dining Room.

Remember all that talk about pendant lamps? We finally bought and installed the CB2 Eden lamp in our dining room.

Not a good picture for this but I also made new seat cushions from Ikea's cecilia fabric. I'll post better photos soon.

So Simple, So Brilliant -- Window Photographs

Image via i suwannee.

Wedding Invitation Worthy of Framing

Found on Lulu Bliss.

Rug of the Century

Saw this on Making It Lovely a few weeks back...