Monday, February 9, 2009

Office Work Spaces with Inspiration Boards

Many of us either work from home or need a space for
our projects at home. A great many of use inspiration
boards to put our favorite photos and ideas for inspiration.

I love how the inspiration board above is so huge
as is the table in the center of the room to work.

Drew Barrymore's office employs a huge
inspiration board that covers the expanse
of a wall.

Photo from Wardomatic

Inspiration in the workspace.

Photo via ArtEsprit

This is the desktop of Amy from Pikaland.

From Pottery Barn Kids

Thought this was a fun chalkboard/magnetic
frame
from Etsy.

Another huge inspiration wall.

Here's a simpler ribbon board.

You can put almost anything on an inspiration
board - fabric, photos, objects that you can pin
up.

I thought this was such a fun and creative
idea - to make a board from coffee sacks.
Marnie from MrrDesign makes these.
If you're interested, definitely email her
about them.


This photo from Domino shows an office
and living space together.

An office that was made over with a vintage
chair and inspiration board (Country Living.)

Looks like a his and hers or a mother
and a child's desk next to each other.

Photo from Unplggd

You can use any sort of background in a
frame to spruce up your inspiration board.

Here's a fun black and white damask
magnetic inspiration board from Etsy.




Craft rooms are also great places for inspiration boards.

Where Women Create: Inspiring
Workspaces of Extraordinary Women


This is one of my favorite books on beautiful
spaces that women have created for their offices,
craft. and work spaces. It's definitely work checking
out for gorgeous inspirations.

21 comments:

*SNYdesign said...

These photos are uber-inspiring:)

Marnie said...

Karen - I was surprised and delighted to see my recycled coffee sack inspiration board on your blog today - thanks for the pop. m

Beautiful Living said...

This post totally reminded me that I need to get my inspiration board up! It's taking me forever to unpack everything!

K.Imaginelli said...

love this post! so inspiring. thanks for all the pics!

Jan said...

Love these -always in need of inspiration !
Although - my S O would call it clutter :)

Jennifer Lee said...

i'm in the process of working on my desk space now so these are great inspirational images.

jenn

Laura Ingalls Gunn said...

What a great collection of images.

coco+kelley said...

all of these are so great!! i'm working on my home office at the moment, and my inspiration board is looking pretty bare - time to get it to look like one of these!!

Sydney Plumber said...

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LindsB said...

I love these, I wish so bad that I had room for a huge inspiration board like these. Then I could finally get everything in my tear sheet binders up on the wall so I could see them everyday!

Miss Kris said...

wow Karen! You have inspired me to get out all my notebooks and place my favourite images and ideas on an inpirational board. Now I need to go get started...great idea!!!

Visual Vamp said...

Now this is my kind of comprehensive post!
The book looks good too.
xo xo

M.Kate said...

Many inspiring pictures, I am never enough of walls to put up everything . Hope you'll have a good week.

Pascale said...

J'aime beaucoup ces coins de murs ou l'on peut mettre des photos, des endroits ou l'on partage des petits bouts de vie...

Pascale

Betsy said...

I love the all white creative room - very inspiring!

Fifi Flowers said...

These work spaces make me want to re-organize and CLEAN my office/studio loft area... I just not sure where to start... sigh!
LOVE these!
Fifi

BoDy anD SouL said...

I was so inspired today after seeing your post about inspirational boards, I was definitely gona make some, and just got caught doing mundane boring stuff, I'll try not to delay it for long.
Cheers

vicki archer said...

Love these boards especially the second, thirteenth and fifteenth. Off to change mine, xv.

christian barnard landscape blog said...

My workspace is awash with sketches, maps, photos, plans....A space of your own for creative chaos is important.

Black on White said...

I have always liked minimalistic, but those inspiration board are great! Inspiriting, indeed!

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