1. Treehugger for their “Most Beautiful Street in the World” post.

2. Apartment Therapy for this home office tour.

3. Design*Sponge’s wonderful wrap up of home office spaces.

4. Design Milk for their Designer DeskTop Wallpaper series.

5. MujiUSA has some very sleek minimal designs for the home office including these acrylic organizers.

6. Luludi for their cool way of incorporating plants into the home office – hang them on the wall.

7. Cleverhands shop on Etsy has a interesting alternative to the pencil case – check it out here. Good for home office workers on the go.

8. Vienna-based designers Less & More create beautiful wooden desk organizers. You can see them here on the US-Supermarket site.

9. Design Notes funny post on a new game – “Six Degrees of Cranbrook”.

10. Desire to Inspire‘s post on a cool Toronto office.

1. Inhabitat ran a post on a beautifully designed little prefab cabin inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright.

2. Interior Design magazine “10 Questions with Konstantin Grcic“ - who designed, among other pieces, Chair_One.

3. Huffington Post for their piece on the Eames’ film “Powers of 10″.

4. Co.Design on how plywood change the world…look out for pieces by Ray and Charles Eames.

5. Architizer for Drew House - an amazing building that includes a tubular section for the living area.

6. The Office Stylist for her post on 22squared’s cool office space.

7. Cubicle Refugee for her lovely, color-driven tumblr blog. Lots of eye candy during your coffee break.

8. Pinterest has so many good boards loaded with home office ideas but make sure you check out Design Studio for really eclectic mix of images.

9. Poppytalk for her home work space post.

10. Habitus for their interview with BassamFellows.

So what could I possibly complain about with this little gem? Only this: I once owned a geodesic dome with doors and windows installed in sloping walls, and they leak. That’s why buildings have roof overhangs, why windows and doors are inset and have trim. That door, with its double hinges, is going to be hard to lock and harder to seal. The shape is gorgeous but it is technically a huge problem. My dome had a sloping door like that; the first time I opened it, while carrying my baby daughter, the waterlogged door came off its hinges and clonked me on the head. There are reasons wood buildings have evolved the way they have.

This thing is either going to leak, or it is going to be impossibly expensive. And then it will take a little longer to leak.

There are other issues; Bucky Fuller might point out that the tetrahedron encloses the least volume per unit of surface area. Or that municipalities with limits on floor area measure the overall footprint, whereas what matters to a human being is the headprint, how much room is there to stand up in.

Preston raises a serious issue; are we cheerleaders or critics? I don’t know anymore.By Lloyd Alter

1. Four – as in four-legged friends. It takes a lot to get me to linger on a pet’s site so this wonderfully designed doggy destination was a surprise. Check out their post on Kuntzel+Deygas who painted the Eames chair below.

2. Designer Alvin Aronson‘s site for this cool prototype of a perfectly white digital clock.

3. Design Milk for their post on this pencil holder from Giha Woo.

4. Swissmiss for her post on Instagram – an obsession I share. It’s a lithe little bit of social media perfect for capturing just about everything and now it looks like the pics can be accessed more easily, making it an even better work tool.

5. Cool Hunting for the story on all-natural cleaning porducts. Perfect for getting that desktop sparkling.

6. Wallpaper magazine for their lovely “Letter from Japan” architecture update. Below – House in Seya, Kanagawa, by Suppose Design Office.

7. Design Applause‘s coverage of Belkin’s green power strip.

8. Dwell’s excellent “Small Spaces” series (the house below is the most recent addition to the series).

9. A Brief Message for Hugh Graham’s short essay on design – “We have the opportunity and the responsibility to create a world where each object and experience is filled with value, where living with less but better is both joyful and meaningful.” We couldn’t agree more.

10. Field Notes new red notebooks. I use these little notebooks in the car and always have one on hand in my purse. Nicely designed, small and light weight.

Above: Joel Pirela’s workspace.

Above: Design Milk’s Jaime Derringer’s home office

Above: Marcus Fairs at the Dezeen office in Stoke Newington, north London

Photographed by William Waldron.

Kim Johnson is one half of Desire to Inspire - a blog packed to the brim with great interiors. She and fellow blogger, Australian Jo Walker, have never actually met. They came together on Flickr and “well that was that. Desire to Inspire was born.” It’s a picture- heavy global tour of chic homes that attracts people from all over the world. Kim, who is a web programmer based in Ottawa, Canada, talks with us about blogging from her home.

What does an average work day look like for you? The majority of my day is spent in a cubicle while I am at my day job as a web developper for the Canadian government. Not very exciting. But then I get to come home and spend my evenings working on the interior design blog I share with Jo, who lives in Australia. That involves answering reader emails, conversing via email with advertisers, collecting photos for a post to be published the following day, and hopefully finding a bit of time to make dinner, check out other blogs, and relax a bit before the day ends. Then it all starts again (at 5 am). My workspace is pretty small; a room at the back of my house that is 11’x10’, with a rather large powder room taking up a quarter of the space.

What technology really works for you? Being surrounded by technology all day, I am inspired by the simple things that get the job done quick. My pink (I loooove pink) Dell laptop is a god send. It is fast and super handy. I often move it into the kitchen where I sit at the dining table and while working I can watch the TV in the living room (and keep an eye out on my 7 cats).

Do you have a favorite desk accessory? The only desk accessory I really need is my whiteboard. I have a marker obsession so I love keeping track of everything (blog advertising, grocery lists, Home Depot lists) on my whiteboard.

What makes your home office work well? Organizing a home work space is essential. Disorganization = stress. No one needs more stress in their lives. So I am always on the hunt for fun vintage metal baskets, storage furniture, trays for stray papers…whatever I need to have a space for every single thing that enters my office.

What do you listen to while you work? Sadly I find I am too preoccupied with other things to find decent music to listen to. I often turn to my digital cable box for help, where I set it to one of the “hit list” radio stations.