Home Office Home Run
If your home office needs a major-league do-over, throw that dull den a curveball with the help of a few nifty bargains. Nothing says springtime like baseball, so how about a bowl of balls for your home base? Toss them into a freshly spray-painted wire bowl (use red paint to match the stitching) and you’ve got a winner. Play ball!
Practice some fund shui by keeping your bills out of sight till payday. Try revving up an ordinary wooden box with an old license plate, a common flea market find. Add a few bolts to secure it to the top, and start your engines! Balancing your checkbook just got a license for fun.
A cubbyhole cabinet, like a bank of post office boxes or a card catalog, is an organizing essential for the home office. Swap the Dewey Decimal System for whimsical labels like Miscellany, This-n-That and Whatchamajigs. A little humor in the home office can make work more like play. And we could all use more of that!
The Perfect Perch
Bring spring inside by transforming an old birdbath into a charming entry hall table. With a quick cleanup, a fabric lining and a round piece of glass, you’ll have a shadow-box table that’s just ducky. What to put in a birdbath shadow box? Something birdy, of course! How about a few ornithological postage stamps, miniature duck decoys and a vintage pair of binoculars? A wrought-iron garden chair beside the birdbath table will put you in the catbird seat. Finish the look with a framed page from a field guide and you’ll be sitting pretty.
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Sisters Kitty and Jennifer O’Neil have "Funky Shui'd" homes from Miami to Boston to Copenhagen. Kitty is a toy designer, artist and writer with experience in consumer product development. Jennifer is a writer, producer and director at a San Francisco production company. Both live in the San Francisco Bay area. Visit the O’Neil sisters' funky world at funkyshui.com.
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