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Here are some more beautiful shelves from flickr member hnxing. Check out the way she had the stamps framed. I’ve been meaning to do this with my Eames stamps before I use them all up on bills!

photo from flickr member hnxing

It’s so fun to see a new batch of photos added to our Fresh New Spaces Group! I know I just featured her a few weeks back (here), but I had to share Ivy style 33’s lovely shelf arrangement with you today. I hope it inspires some weekend organizing and decorating for you!

photos by flickr member Ivy Style 33

LOVE the round-up of kid workspaces over at remodelista. Here’s a taste:

image from Elle Interiors, via remodelista

As I sit here at my messy desk, wishing I could get my act together, I stumbled upon this studio from flickr member Art·Craft·Thrift. I want to go over there and work. There’s a place for everything; a truly inspiring inspiration board, and check out those great picture rails in the smaller room. This flickr member, whose name is Jessica and who lives in Portland Oregon, also has a lovely blog called Domestic PDX, where she even lets you see her inspiration board updates. Thanks Jessica, I needed a kick in the pants this morning!

photo copyright Jessica Engeman via flickr.com

I think I’ve shown you all how messy my office gets, so I have no business doling out office advice. This was my office a few years ago. It stresses me out just to look at the photo. Ugh. No wonder I never got any work done:

The only desk space in my home that works is this one, which I don’t use. It’s become a useless space  - its only function is to serve as a place to store some pens, pins, and scissors in my bedroom. I admit it:

Anyway, I’ll leave it up to my pal Holly to dole out the home office organization advice. You can check it out over at realsimple.com.

I have had resolution after resolution pledging to declutter, and here I sit, surrounded by foreign magazines I refuse to throw away and drafting supplies that I haven’t used since grad school. Not to mention the postcards, un-hung art, tax returns, throw pillows for eBay sale and random wires everywhere. Let’s just say a home office isn’t the best place to start. You have to work your way up to that. I found this article over at zenhabits via a friend’s facebook link today and I like it. It makes me feel like I really can declutter ONE room. I’m going to go pick the least cluttered one and see if I can do it all at once right now.Well, scratch that, I’m starting with a drawer. This may turn into a good excuse to go to The Container Store and buy some more clutter…

I know I’ve mentioned/swiped from one of my favorite blogs, VisuaLingual before, but I wanted to show a few favorite flickr shots I have swiped from there for my own inspiration.

Brilliant and balanced Art Arrangement:

A collection of found objects, in this case bottles, they have found around their neighborhood, Over the Rhine in Cincy:

More great art arrangement, a bold color choice, and you all know I’m always a sucker for globes and maps:

And finally, the to die for studio space:

Check out VisuaLingual on flickr here, the blog here, the site here, and the etsy shop here!

all photos from VisuaLingual, via flickr

What do you get when you mesh an iPhone with an interior designer? Either a really style savvy phone, an interior designer who is always connected or perhaps a bit of both. In this case I’m talking about the new Mark on Call iPhone/iPod Touch application. Created by L.A. based interior designer Mark Lewison, the app will let you create rooms in accurate shapes and sizes, lay down flooring, add and place architectural pieces, appliances, furniture…you name it, all via your phone. You can even take iPhone photos of colors and textiles and place them in the room to see what works what doesn’t. I’ve seen people come into our office with intricate sketches of their spaces trying to decide what will go where…but now you can do it all by phone!

My, how technology rocks/rules our world.

Video from Mark on Call

As usual, this is probably going to cover more than a week, as I have been catching up with all of my favorite design blogs from the last six weeks.

My IDOL Nicole of Making It Lovely has organized the most amazing closet in the world. It was really fun to get a peak at all of her amazing clothes and accessories. You can tell she uses her amazing graphic sense to style herself just as well as she styles her blog and her Pink Loves Brown lines! Here’s a little peak, click here to see the whole thing. (ADDED LATER: PLEASE SEE COMMENTS ABOUT HOW LAME MY CHOICE OF ADJECTIVES IS).

Love the best of ‘08 work spaces curated by Emma’s Design Blog:

I’m awed by The house that floats on a Great Lake over at Inhabitat:

I’m gleaning inspiration from An Art Arrangement Round Up over at Style Court(be sure to click on the articles posted prior to this link for even more artful arrangments):

I’m cracking up over these flower urinals over at urban grace interiors!:

photo credits:

1) from Making It Lovely

2)from Emma’s Design Blog

3) via Inhabitat

4) from  Michael Bastian’s apartment, photographed by Melanie Acevedo for domino, September, 2008, courtesy Mrs. Blandings via Style Court

5) By Clark Sorenson via urban grace interiors

I think some of the kitchen organizing posts from last weeks Organization Blog Fest have received more comments than Ali and I put together the entire time we’ve been blogging! It shows me how great it is to have some guest voices on the blog!

As a follow up for those of you with tight kitchen spaces, I thought I’d share one of my many flickr favorites. I love the way that this pegboard and the pots and pans on it have become a graphic element in the kitchen. It’s got function and form and is a work of assemblage art in itself! The assemblage can even give us hints at what the owner is whipping up in the kitchen when we see pieces missing. Nice.

photo by flickr member merskine