10centdesigner - smart office niche idea

Last week I also came across a smart solution for accommodating a work station within a tiny niche.



I like the sleek result of this renovation work by 10centdesigner. A place full of light and splashes of colors.
Here for you to enjoy. You can also click on the image to get to the original post.

Happy New Year! And lots of inspiring rooms!

Happy New Year!
Why not starting 2011 with lots of inspiring rooms?!

Here some I found in the last couple of days...


Colorful and shiny room. The natural roller curtains. Most likely, the HEMNES sofa/bed from IKEA, that we have considered as a possible solution for the guest room. It easily expand to a double bed + it has storage space beneath.


I like the practical solutions about this room. Lots of shelves and storage space. With lots of color to cheer things up ;)

Then a DIY (Do It Yourself) project, the transformation of the Billy bookshelves also from IKEA. We have a couple of Billys as well, and I have always thought of doing something with them to spicy them up a bit. Here the final result

Found through Design*Sponge, original project from Sharon Pakir.

About the office. Here an idea I like

where the desk and other storage space are kept together by the continuity of the wooden plate above them all. Through The Marion House Book

And from the same site, a solution for sliding door.

We plan to use sliding door between the living room and the hopefully soon-to-be baby-room/office/guest room. We are still not sure that the wall we want to set the sliding door into is or is not a carrying wall, so we are considering having the doors outside the wall, like those in the picture above. I like the sleek solution to cover the carrying rail.

And for a delight, have a look at this calm, relaxing and amazing apartment found through MadeByGirl

Many sleek solutions, like all the storage space behind this white wall

and the illuminated shelves for a even more dramatic effect of the pieces displayed.
The light and the soften use of the purple color (one of my favorite) throughout the whole apartment.

And even more bright the top floor where you can also find the office corner

Again I love the continuity of the surface of the desk and drawers. And continuity of another white storage wall in the bedroom

Just so lovely, with the nook for sitting and reading

More here. Just lovely!

And if you are not tired yet. Here two more things.

One from ApartmentTherapy, ideas about beautiful organized homes


And this one AtCasa, a bright white apartment full of sleek and smart solutions


What a great way to start the year!

Storage ideas

Among the blogs that I have bookmarked through the years there is one that is only about storage ideas. It's Storage | Glee. It's a great source of inspiration if you look for smart ideas.

This post for instance is giving me a great idea for a possible solution in the office/guest room.



Have a look to Storage|Glee if you also look for storage ideas ;)

Two lovely niches

I am in love with niches as you might have understood by now (more on niches here, here and here ).

I find niches also quite practical, they usually exploit the space offering multiple functionalities which is a critical aspect if you have limited space.

So in this post at Desire to Inspire, an idea for a compact desk solution with lots of drawers for storage.



While here at Dwellers without decorators a lovely bed niche.



It seems green is quite a popular color for bed-niche (remember this one?)

More natural roller curtains and an idea for the bedroom

We have many plans for changing several rooms in the house. In particular the studio/guest room and our bedroom.

I really like the idea of natural roller curtains as I have mentioned before ;)
But this is just another great picture I cannot loose as inspiration.



This is from So'mace (there is not direct link to the post but it's from Sep 15, 2010 with Delights as label)

I like the fact that the curtains this time are mounted outside the window frame. We have always had problems with our window size, between two standards measures for curtains. This could be a solution ;)

The other inspiring idea regards the bedroom. We are looking at different way for adding storage space in our room. There is not much space, but we have been thinking to frame the bed headboard with shelves, etc.

I like this idea from Cote de Texas (for some strange reason I cannot upload this image). Follow the link to the image or to this post and look at the master bedroom where 'the bed fits into the niche between the bookcases'. I like the idea of small shelves on a side of the other cabinets we are in need for. In the same post you'll find lots of other examples of an excellent use of natural roller curtains.

Sofa/Bed/Reading space ideas and another sources of inspiration

Here more ideas and inspirations come for the studio.

I like the idea of having a sofa full of comfortable pillows where one can stop, relax and read (as I might have shown earlier). Here come two wonderful ideas, with drawers for storage space underneath ;)


From Justin Bernhaut through Coco+Kelly

And the colorful sofa in the next picture (on the right)

From Haus Maus by Holly Becker, author of another very interesting blog decor8

I found in fact more inspirations from another decor8 post here. I love many things from the bright office in this picture



The light, the natural roller curtains, the plain desk, the side shelves...should I add more? Lovely!

Another great, slick office is the one from Young House Love



Again another plain desk and colorful (without overdoing) solution.

What do you think? Where to you get inspiration from for your office re-design?

More ideas for the studio

Here two more inspirations concerning the studio.
One is for a cozy corner combined with the possibility to host some guests


From this post at Elements of Style

And here another idea from another of my favorite blog "Ikea hacker", a customized solution from Bestå cabinets


From Ikea Hacker

What do you think? What are your inspiration for your office/guest bedroom?

Idea for the studio

Here a great idea of how to hack some of the IKEA furniture we have into a wall solution combining desk and book shelves.



Through Design Mum

Loving.Living.Small Office

I just discovered the home office of Loving.Living.Small and I find it very cute, essential and so so bright!


Through Apartment Therapy

Have a look here and more pictures here

Isn't it a lovely office that would just inspire you to work?!

Home office idea

Here at Houzz you can find a lot of home office ideas

I particularly like this one

contemporary home office design

I like the nook to read by the window and how the space is efficiently used.

What do you think?