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How To Build A Home Office – The Coffee Table

By on May 1st, 2010

Every office needs a coffee table.  Whether it’s to hold meetings with clients around, spread out potential magazines for querying on or to simply have somewhere to rest your feet during your mid-morning break, a coffee table has a variety …

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How To Build A Home Office – The Bookcase

By on April 1st, 2010

In last month’s post, I explained how to build an L-shaped desk based on a project I carried out several years ago. The reason I built my own desk, apart from the fact that I needed a separate writing space …

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How To Build A Home Office – The Desk

By on March 1st, 2010

When I first started freelancing, I realised that my productivity decreased if I were working from my laptop in a room where there were distractions of some sort. Whether it was the TV, radio, girlfriend or cats, I found that …

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DIY Office Basics for Freelance Writers: How to Hang Shelves

By on December 1st, 2009

If you’re anything like me, your office is a tiny cell of a room where there’s barely enough room for your bed and your fainting couch, and opening the filing cabinet can turn into an acrobatic feat. When saddled with …

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Organize Your Office on the Cheap with These DIY Cork Board Projects

By on November 1st, 2009

Before I was a freelance writer, I was a branch manager at a corporation. Whenever I needed something for the office, I found it in a catalog, placed an order, and welcomed the FedEx guy a few days later. Now …

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