Weekly Remainders: An Advice Special

What desk to buy (or build!), what to do with it once you’ve bought it, and some simple desktop wallpapers to match your simple workspace: it’s this week’s remainders. 

  • Little Thing: Desks: An article by Ben Brooks detailing the things you need to think about before purchasing a new desk. Full of good advice. From The Brooks Review.
     
  • 10 Steps to a Home Office You’ll Love: Some excellent fundamentals on how to make your workspace a lovely place to work. All ten are well worth a read.
    From Apartment Therapy.
     
  • Simple Desktops: A wonderful resource full of tasteful, simple desktop wallpapers “designed to make your computer beautiful without distraction”.

Every week there are a ton of entries that don’t get posted. Sometimes, they don’t quite match the focus of the site, or I don’t feel their quality merits inclusion. The best of these remainders are featured every Friday.

A Beautiful Mountainous Retreat: Wow. Those views must be an amazing inspiration - no wonder the desk faces outwards.  Original source: Unknown, via Dying of Cute.

A Beautiful Mountainous Retreat:

Wow. Those views must be an amazing inspiration - no wonder the desk faces outwards. 

Original source: Unknown, via Dying of Cute.

DIY Laptop Desk: Originally posted 8th March, 2011. Be sure to check the Ikea Hackers source link to see how it was constructed. Original source: ‘unityandform’ (Flickr), via Ikea Hackers. Part of the Vault series, a collection of some of the best posts from the previous iteration of Simple Desks.

DIY Laptop Desk:

Originally posted 8th March, 2011. Be sure to check the Ikea Hackers source link to see how it was constructed.

Original source: ‘unityandform’ (Flickr), via Ikea Hackers.

Part of the Vault series, a collection of some of the best posts from the previous iteration of Simple Desks.

Morning-wood Workspace: In the bedroom, wooden table in Loja do Museu do Arroz, Sara Velharias chair, quilt fair Grandola; African collared box in Almogador. [Roughly translated] Original source: Elle Decor, via A Paper Aeroplane.

Morning-wood Workspace:

In the bedroom, wooden table in Loja do Museu do Arroz, Sara Velharias chair, quilt fair Grandola; African collared box in Almogador. [Roughly translated]

Original source: Elle Decor, via A Paper Aeroplane.

Minimalist, Not Modern: An excellent example of a broadly minimalist workspace that isn’t also modern in its design approach. Original source: Coco + Kelley (Link to homepage, not the original post - I couldn’t locate it), via Pretty Little Pieces.

Minimalist, Not Modern:

An excellent example of a broadly minimalist workspace that isn’t also modern in its design approach.

Original source: Coco + Kelley (Link to homepage, not the original post - I couldn’t locate it), via Pretty Little Pieces.