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Quickie Roundup: Coolest, Cheapest Television Cabinets

Our motto here at Unplggd goes a little something like this: "Spend on the things you can, but do the opposite when it comes to saving." TV stands, for example, need not be fancy aluminum or tempered ...

Look! Using Sidetables as Shelves

When Sait Alanyali got tired of his home office, he went to Ikea and grabbed some standard fare, to be used in not so standard ways. His new set-up uses two white Lack side tables as shelves on his l...

Blogging... New York Times Looks At Living on a Student Budget

As we enter a recession (yes, we said it), the New York Times has published an article looking at inexpensive and creative solutions from students in New York City. There are so amazing ideas here, l...

Pinel & Pinel's Home Entertainment Trunks

We've all certainly know of the term "home theater in a box", but how about a luxurious home theater in a trunk? Inspired by the 1930's style steamer traveling trunks, luxury brand Pinel & Pinel has c...

Hot Posts 10.07.08:This Week's Hot Posts

What a week. The stocks plunged, the senate and the house couldn't agree on a bailout until Friday, and Biden and Palin went head to head in one of the most watched veep debates in history. Well goll...

Roundup: Five Best Record Storing Ideas

Paul Mawhinney owns the world's largest record collection with an astonishing 3 million records. Some are so rare they can't be found anywhere else. Until February of this year they were stored ...

Pottery Barn's Apothecary Media Cabinet

Remember that apothecary cabinet we saw in Elle Decor? Well we just found something similar in Pottery Barn, no this isn't a Friends joke, and it'll not only hold smaller items, it doubles as a media...

Sacramento Cinder Block Home

Not all of us mount our flat screens (if we have them). Rearranged Design features a house tour with Sacramento dweller, Juju. She's been living in a cinder block house for five years and one of the ...

Look! White Is the New Black

Oooh how we love white electronics. We're not sure if it started with the iBook or with Woody Allen's Sleeper, but there's something about a room filled with shiny white things that just makes us fee...

Close-Up: Basement Lounge Makeover

Name: Garrison Hullinger & J Jones II Location: Portland, OR Years Lived In: 3.5 years What's your philosophy on integrating technology into your living space? Hide all wiring! Over three years ago ...

Custom Made Media Center Inspired by Vintage Postcard

ATLA has a great House Tour of Steve Prestemon's Venice, CA home. Within the 1340 sq/ft house is this custom made media center, inspired by a postcard Steve found at Urban Outfitters......

The Record Cabinet by Atocha Design

Vinyl has still not completely gone the way of the dinosaur, especially for any self proclaimed audiophiles. Quite a few of you still own record players which probably means that you either have a a r...

Look! Wallpaper to Hide Home Office Junk

We've been writing a lot about hideaway offices, especially secretary desks that can easily accommodate your workstation. Here's a secretary desk that's gotten a little DIY help from children's book ...

Scavenger: Vintage Radio Cabinet Turned Media Center

Just peeped this on Craigslist. We love how the current owner took advantage of the shelving on this vintage radio cabinet to house their modern A/V equipment. If we had the room for this we'd scoop ...

Blogging... Elle Decor

We usually don't condone televisions in the bathroom (a bit much, no?), but this execution is pretty marvelous. Found in the New York home of fashion designer Adam Lippes, this Sharp Aquos flat scree...

Oficio: The Mullet of Workstations

The Oficio Worktable by Quentin Vaulot and Luiza Barroso attempts to "visualize the creative process as it progresses from chaos to order." We think it does an accurate job of capturing the spirit of ...

Blogging...Martha Stewart Circa April 2008

One of the great things about bodegas in New York City is that in some of them you can find back issues of magazines for 1/2 off. A few weeks ago we scored some old copies of Martha Stewart, one of wh...

Flickr Finds: Mod Cubbies Make Up a French Home Office

Drine and Hugues over in France had a great little home office in their apartment before they bought their current house. We found a snapshot of it online and thought we'd share. We can't remember ...

Blogging... Elle Decor

October's issue of Elle Decor features the Berkshires home of accessories designers Richard Lambertson and John Truex. While there isn't anything very techy about the space, their home office has a c...

Hot or Not? Flat Screen Filed Within a Library

On Monday, Aaron from ATNY posted about T Magazine's feature showcasing Calvin Klein's womens-wear designer Franciso Costa and horse trainer and manager John De Stefano's two-bedroom apartment in New...

KATA Multimedia Backback

Technology consumers have been on a backpack kick lately. The Backpack Boomobox's portable iPod dock and speakers and the laptop-carrying Incase Sling Pack are just two of the trends covered on Unplgg...

Ikea's Workstation Hideaway

A couple weeks ago we showed you Cindy's closet-turned-home office. Now Ikea gives you the opportunity to create a similar mini workspace that's designed specifically for housing your computer and al...

Good Questions: What to Do with my Speakers

Dear Unplggd readers, Yes it's me, your Unplggd editor, Soniaz. I need your help. I've recently moved my TV into a small closet that fits my TV perfectly and my components, well, almost perfectly (s...

Ikea's TV Solutions

We got a sneak peak of Ikea's October catalog and were impressed by all their nifty media centers. Which one's your fave? Our pick after the jump. ...

Stoa Modular Rail System by Herman Miller

Here is another nice home office find from the guys over at workalicious. As soon as I saw this, I pictured actually being able to use my desk without having to make space for my laptop, notebook....o...