Pottery Barn Workspaces

Whether you enjoy the luxury of working from home or just need a place to keep track of a busy household, a well-designed workroom keeps you organized and inspired. Pottery Barn Workspaces is filled with ideas and advice for creating a casual, comfortable space that's perfectly suited to your personal working style. If you're refreshing your current workspace -- or even starting from scratch -- Pottery Barn Workspaces is filled with easily achievable ideas. Learn quick-change techniques and decorating tips for dualpurpose workrooms, such as kitchen and bedroom offices. Give your home office a fresh look and multiply your storage options by borrowing design ideas from other rooms. Discover how to create portable desks, how to tuck a workspace into a stairwell, and how to make an ordinary wall into a personalized pinboard. From high-tech professional home offices to cozy corners for bill-paying, each space in this book was chosen to provide you with a wealth of options for making your home office more comfortable, stylish, and useful. In homes across America, Pottery Barn's signature blend of comfort and style has made us a trusted source of design inspiration. In Pottery Barn Workspaces, we've gathered our favorite decorating secrets to help you create the perfect workspace for you and your family. This book is a collection of favorite solutions from our own homes, along with new ideas we couldn't wait to show you. In these pages you'll find well-designed workrooms and project spaces of all kinds, along with quick-reference color palettes and materials guides that make it easy to apply the decorating ideas to your own home. Book jacket.

Ideas and inspiration for stylish entertaining and everyday dining.

More than twenty superstars from the world of crafting--including Anna Corba, April Cornell, Sandi Genovese, and Andrea Grossman--offer their expert advice on how to design a work space where creativity can blossom. Like the bestselling Business of Bliss, it's practical, inspirational, and beautiful to behold. Research by Craft Trends Magazine reveals that 89% of all crafters are women, and that they want to work in an environment conducive to creating their art. This invaluable and very special guide helps them achieve that goal, whatever their passion. It goes straight to the experts: successful women who have made their mark in more than 10 different creative fields. These top designers and artisans offer insights gleaned from years of experience, reveal how they constructed their own creative spaces, and explain how the reader can make practical use of these decorating, organizational, and inspirational techniques as they go about designing their own work areas. Among the pertinent questions they answer: Where did you like to work as a child? What's the most important thing about having your own place to work? Are women's creative spaces different from men's? How important is it for you to organize your work, and how do you do it? Do you listen to music when you work--and what kind? The featured designers include Wendy Addison, Dena Fishbein, Jill Schwartz, and Suze Weinberg and their fields range from paper crafts to gardening. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club & the Homestyle Book Club.

Work where you want, when you want! Want the flexibility to work outside the office? It’s not all “peaches and cream”! There are real pitfalls, real tradeoffs, real hassles. But there are also real solutions. Whether you’re freelancing, telecommuting, or workshifting, this up-to-the-minute guide will help you anticipate every challenge—and overcome them! Simon Salt shares the experiences of dozens of people who’ve customized successful out-of-office work arrangements for virtually every imaginable job and industry. Discover what it takes to run a successful meeting from a coffee shop...manage a Skype call from 35,000 feet aloft...juggle your family’s demands while you’re working at home...set limits, and make technology serve you, instead of enslaving you! Make a clear-eyed decision about whether out-of-office work makes sense Set up a workspace where you can be happy and productive Establish the right boundaries—both personal and physical Maximize your productivity in airports, hotels, airplanes, and trains Keep your work secure and private, wherever you go Stay fully connected and “top of mind” with your colleagues Work with remote teams to build your own personal business Get the job done without working 24x7 (and even take vacations!) www.outofofficesuccess.com