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Domestic Detox

Objects Of Design #317: Towel Drier

wooden towel drier from Labour and Wait I just love this towel rack. It can hold up to five towels and takes up barely any space. It's perfect for the kitchen where you can keep a couple of drying up cloths, the washing up cloth (I hate it it when it's draped over the tap)
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Objects Of Design #316: Pop Up Knife Block

press it to pop up the knife block How I wish I had known about this when I was doing my kitchen. I hate keeping sharp knives in the drawer and I hate cluttering the worktop with a knife block even more. This is simply a box that slides into a gap behind the cabinet
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Objects Of Design #315: CD Shelf

Beautiful minimalistic CD storage from Skandium What a beautiful way to store CDs. The shelving is so minimal it has all but disappeared and the object becomes a wall decoration in itself. Buy as many as you can afford and arrange them symmetrically or more randomly until you have filled a whole wall. fill the
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Objects Of Design #314: Artist Bench

artist bench: perfect hall storage Still on the subject of hall clutter, this bench could help with that. At only 35cm wide it won't take up too much room and you can line the shoes up underneath and use the top for sitting on. Assuming you haven't filled it with too much clutter that is.
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Objects Of Design #313: Brogue Coffee Table

Brogue Coffee Table by Bethan Gray A domestic detox doesn't necessarily mean throwing everything out and starting again, although by all means do have a look at things you haven't used for a long time and give them the old heave ho. It's also about refining what you have to create a more streamlined approach.
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Objects Of Design #312: Birch Storage Cube

Shoe storage that doubles up as a bench So they're about to go back to school now and the hall will suddenly be full of shoes, coats, bags, the odd tennis racket and probably a random sock or two. These boxes could sort that out. Made by the Finnish designer Harri Koskinen, you can line
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Objects Of Design #311: Three Tier Magazine Rack

this three tier magazine rack will declutter your spaces in no time Well if you've filled all the flat surfaces, you might as well start going up. After all that's what they did in Manhattan. There's nothing worse than piles of newspapers and magazines cluttering up tables and sideboards (even if they are coffee tables).
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Objects Of Design #310: Vintage Wooden Lockers

vintage wooden lockers are perfect for storage I just love this vintage set of wooden lockers. At just 30cm deep, it will probably fit into most hallways or would make perfect bedroom storage. In the hall you could give each person a row- down or across - shoes in the bottom, schoolbags in the middle
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Objects Of Design #309: Pigeon Hole Shelf

Pigeon hole shelf unit: tidy desk equals a tidy mind Hands up whose desk is a pile of papers, pens that don't work, filing that's waiting to be done and various other bits of stuff that are adding to the general air of messiness? Yes, I thought so. Get yourself some shelves and allocate a
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Objects Of Design #308: Large Rattan Basket

a large rattan basket makes tidying up easier One of the key elements in a domestic detox is finding a place for everything. There's nothing worse than piles of stuff lying around on every surface which means you can't find anything you actually need or want in a hurry. You don't need to have masses
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Objects Of Design #307: Tall Dustpan & Brush

New Year New You HAPPY NEW YEAR! So here we are again. Doesn't time fly? Where did the year go? What day is it again? What? Never? Well not for January at least. Resolutions? Ha! Two of those had gone before you got home from the party last night. Objects of Design is focusing on
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