Standing Desk Keyboard Riser Shelf By: Ben

Materials: 12″x32″ black-brown shelf (Hemnes?), Capita 8-1/4″ leg

As simple as can be! I needed a keyboard riser to convert my desk to a standing desk. So, I grabbed a 4 pack of Capita 8-1/4″ legs for $16 and a nice black-brown shelf from the Handyman area for $3 and put them together. Perfect height! The shelf is probably from the Hemnes bookcase if I had to guess.

I had to pre-drill the screw holes into the shelf. Also, the Capita screws are long enough to go all the way through the 1/2″ Hemnes(?) shelf, so I used washers and/or shorter screws to prevent that.

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A Brisbane Home Filled with Light and Treasured Collections By: Grace Bonney

If there’s one thing that most city apartment-dwellers learn over the years, it’s that you have to give a little to get a little. Even the most beautiful of spaces come with quirks and challenges, but those are just part of the joy of living in an older building in a bustling city. Nicolette and Tom know a thing or two about living with a difficult but beautiful space, and they’ve managed to turn what could have been a difficult space to work with into a warm, welcoming home.

Photographer and documentary filmmaker Nicolette Johnson shares her Brisbane home with her fiance, Tom Dawson, who is studying IT networking. They came across this sunny apartment two years ago and loved the area (just a short walk from Tom’s school, as well as the Gallery of Modern Art, the Queensland Art Gallery, the science museum and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre). The home is filled with great art deco-era details and, because it’s a corner apartment, comes with stunning curved windows and walls. While all these details (crown molding, polished hardwood floor, original hardware) sold the apartment for Tom and Nicolette, they also had to work around some small and difficult layout challenges and a few rooms that are just big enough for a few pieces of furniture. But quirks aside, Nicolette and Tom love their space and feel like they’ve created a calm private sanctuary away from busy city life. Between their shared love of travel collections and expert thrift-shop finds, they’ve managed to not just fill their home with beautiful things, but find a way to balance their desires for comfort and function with a creative and inspiring space. The space is still a work in progress, but Nicolette loves that. “Both of us are on a very tight budget and have been for the majority of our relationship, but we have managed to slowly pick up some great pieces here and there for a relatively insignificant amount of money. I think that’s how great collections are formed, slowly and deliberately.” I couldn’t agree more and am so thrilled to share a peek inside their sunny home today. xo, grace

Photographs by Nicolette Johnson

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Mondrian at home By: Cristina

This “Mondrianization” was done to Expedit units but can also be done to the new Kallax or to almost any piece of furniture. In the living room we have two Expedit units to which we added doors. For a long time I wanted to change them and to my mind came the art of Mondrian, perfect for this project.

Materials:

Three rolls of vinyl contact paper (one red, one blue, one yellow)

A roll of black masking tape.

Pencil

Scissors

Level

Ruler

Step by step:

First I googled “Mondrian furniture”. When I had decided on the design I sketched it on paper because I wanted both modules to match. If you look at the images, the horizontal lines in both modules are placed at the same distance from the top and bottom of the modules.

Draw rectangles or squares on the back of the colored vinyl and then cut. Leave margin so that the vinyl can go over the border of the door and end on the back of the door, out of sight. No need to cut a perfect edge because on top of the vinyl we will place the masking tape and this will hide the borders.

Stick vinyl over the door. To do so follow the same process as when you apply it to a book: unstick the vinyl and use a ruler to flatten it over the surface you are covering trying to avoid the formation of bubbles. If bubbles appear, unstick and begin again or pierce the bubble with a needle and get the air out with the help of your fingernail.

When you place the masking tape, even if you think you are placing it on a straight line you are probably not, so use the level. If you do not have a level measure at intervals the distance from the border of the module to the masking tape stripe.

It’s done. The result will be look so good that you will probably want to go round the house with the vinyl and masking tape.

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A Country Home for 16 Animals, 2 Boys and 1 Seamstress in Louisville By: Sabrina Smelko

As I get older, I realize more and more the difference between minimal as a design trend and minimal as a lifestyle. One focuses on form and the other, on function. And the latter is what designer and seamstress Bekah Stewart is all about. Her country home in Louisville, KY, is all about comfort, function, ease of use and keeping her possessions to a minimum.

Bekah works from home where she raises 10 chickens, two goats, one guinea pig and one fish, as well as her two young boys Tristan and Collin and her dogs, Precious the husky and Devner the blue heeler. With a constant tornado of action ripping through her house, her priority is to foster a space that’s functional for everyone under her roof, through every season. Filled with light and life, Bekah’s home truly encompasses what it means to live the simple life (right down to her housewares), which favors rich textiles over decor and the great outdoors over TV (they don’t even own one!). –Sabrina

Photography by Whitney Neal

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Brie Harrison By: Grace Bonney

Patterns can be an intensely personal thing. I tend to define myself and my home by a great stripe, but every now and then, I fall head over heels for a vivid floral pattern. If it has a bit of a retro flair, all the better. I’ve loved designer Brie Harrison‘s floral patterns for years now, but I was thrilled to hear from her last week about her brand new website and new products, like her range of paper goods and a new fabric called Carnation, in collaboration with Winter’s Moon. Both Brie’s new fabric and paper goods embrace deep rich reds, blues and greens. It’s the sort of colors I really love to see this time of year, when everything around can look a little too grey and washed out. Click here to check out more of Brie’s work and drop her a line about purchasing. xo, grace

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Wall Office with Akurum Kitchen cabinets and Pax sliding doors By: Arctic Surf Designs

Materials: Akurum High Cabinets and PAX sliding doors

My office was displaced from room to room, so many times, since my twins arrived. All I was left with was a desk the kids loved to crawl on and mess up. I hoped to find some cheap IKEA wardrobes and make an “wall” office. Luckily IKEA was redoing their kitchen line so I snagged two deep Akurum cabinets for $15 and bought 56$ in shelves.

I wanted secure doors on the cabinets to keep the kids out so I decided to buy a PAX sliding door. After three different IKEA associates told me it wouldn’t fit, I bought the cheapest PAX doors HASVIK 150x201cm or 59″ x79 1/8″ ($93.5 – it was 15% off). The PAX door went on easily. The only 2 issues being:

1) The PAX door width is 1/2 inch less than 2 Akurum cabinets. I just positioned the hanging rail in the middle so that the door would be within 1/4″ on both ends. However in your case you may want to shift the rail to an exposed side. For me the gap was perfect allowing for heat to escape from the 4+ computers and multiple drives in the cabinet.

2) You need to position your bottom shelf such that it lines up with the door bottom rail position. In my case I could only get the shelf within a 1/2″ of the where the slider holder normally goes. But it is s simple matter of drilling the 4 holes 1/2″ lower that the existing holes. I believe it was a standard 10 mm drill bit.

Knowing how well it worked I wished I had bought a nicer sliding PAX door. I left the bottom open to allow easy access to containers. I used 88″ high cabinets with the 79″ doors but it probably would look better with 80″ Akurum cabinets with those doors. I bought 2 sliding child proof locks from Lowes for $6. It effectively keeps the curious twins out.

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