Chinese desk-a-way
Would you arrange your office desk according to feng shui? To me, feng shui seems like interior design with added mysticism. But given China's importance as a trading and financial…
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Office Furniture
The day-to-day of a home office
Do you have the discipline to work from home? It sounds like a dream job - you can work at your own pace, in the comfort of your home. But…
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Off to the home office?
You've probably seen recent press reports that there's been a surge in the sale of home office furniture. According to one major retailer, sales were up 14%, with the increase…
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Stake your claim with office furniture
A blog by a Silicon Valley employee suggests ways of using office furniture for expansion and defence. I was looking for insight on the best ways to arrange office furniture…
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Three White Desks?
If you want to have a minimalist office, or to make it look a bit bigger, then painting your walls white and buying a white desk will go some way…
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Child’s play: the LEGO office
LEGO PMD is the toy-brick company's design division (as far as I can tell). Danish architectural firm Rosan Bosch has created an office space where 'fun, play and creativity are…
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Spare wallpaper and spruced-up filing cabinets
Give your filing cabinets a facelift and your office a bit of colour. It could help with filing, too. I'm continually thankful for people's creativity when it comes to improving…
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Meet the Cardboard Office
A Dutch advertising agency's office was made entirely out of cardboard – and looked fantastic. We've mentioned cardboard furniture on the blog before, but this is the first time I've…
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National Clean Off Your Desk Day
Well, wouldn't you know it, I missed 'National Clean Off Your Desk Day'. No, I'm not joking. It's celebrated each year in North America, and it always falls on the…
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Sitting comfortably?
The next time you zip about on your office chair, think of cowboys and the American mid-West. Sounds far-fetched, but according to one expert, our comfortable office chairs, with their…
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Bisley: bin there, done that.
It's now a well-known name in office furniture, but few people know that Bisley started life as a car body repair workshop 80 years ago. Sheet metal worker Freddy Brown…
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Flowering filing cabinets
Replacing your old filing cabinets? Here's a way to re-use them and make your office look nicer at the same time. Last year we wrote about people using their filing…
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Food and filing cabinets
Don't imagine any olive oil here. Nope, these chaps are using their filing cabinets to smoke food. There's something in the American spirit, I think, that's able to look past…
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Hell for leather?
Do you have a comfortable leather chair at the office or at home? Are you taking care of it? As the weather grows colder, taking care of leather office furniture…
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Want some privacy? Put your hood up
This clever desk comes with a built-in hood, perfect for when you need a bit of privacy at the office. For all its usefulness, office furniture isn't known for being…
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How to stay awake in an explosives factory
Take one tired worker, add a lethal product and what do you get? Next time you feel like complaining about your old office furniture – the table that wobbles, the…
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Does your office chair come with clouds?
Our office chairs are pretty good, but this one looks amazing. It not only comes with clouds, but volcanoes. And Saturn. http://youtu.be/rBEri81YvZk Isn't this video lovely? I've no idea if…
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Would you draw on a table?
We did it in school, but would you do it in the office? At least one company thinks drawing on a table could be a good idea, though at $549…
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Meet the pipe organ desk. Pewp!
We sell some nice office desks, but this creation trumpets (sic) all of them. This is wonderful. The desk is all wood and the pipe organ works by opening and…
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Will today’s office furniture be tomorrow’s antique?
An American company is selling antique office and industrial furniture. I’ve never used Factory 20, a company based in Virginia, but I’m enjoying browsing its website. It’s got some lovely…
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A USB hub that slots into your desk
A USB hub that slots into your desk I really need to get a life; I'm actually impressed by a USB hub. :( Belkin have made a USB hub that…
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DWP has £1 million office chair bill
DWP has £1 million office chair bill The Daily Mail, via The Sun, has a story on the Department of Work and Pensions spending £1,00,000 a year on office chairs,…
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Five tips for productive meetings
Five tips for productive meetings I found a list of five tips for how 'not to having mind numbing office meetings'. Some of the ideas are good, but I can't…
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How would a child describe your office?
‘Crud Wizard’ is a blog run by a nine-year-old American called Ezra, helped by his dad. Ezra writes about his life, including his favourite sandwich-shop the ‘Alamo Square Deli’. I…
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Good posture is bad for your back
According to Scottish and Canadian researchers, sitting up straight at our desks is actually bad for our backs. What the hell? For years, I've been told that sitting bolt upright…
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Do You Fantasise About Buying Stationery?
In last Saturday's Guardian, Booker winner Hilary Mantel reveals that when words fail her, she seeks consolation in that part of her life that always works: ordering stationery. Hilary says…
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CHAIR-WAY TO HEAVEN
I’m sure by now that most of you have seen the film ‘Up’, the latest offering from Disney Pixar (If you haven’t, I strongly recommend it – and make sure…
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Are you sitting comfortably…?
Then I’ll begin!! OK, so I’m not old enough to really remember Listen With Mother, but I still couldn’t resist the temptation. Actually, the chances are that many of us…
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Leitz Plus Desktop Plus Range
It may be a daydream – a neat and tidy desk, with all your essential office stuff within easy reach. You simply scan the stacked letter trays, and bingo you…
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Pedestal drawers
Having read one of our earlier posts about what’s on our desks and being incredibly proud of the organised chaos laid out before me (from a cuddly turtle and a…
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