The Best Office Colors

The Best Office Colors

Countless books have been written about how to boost your work productivity. But all along, you may have just needed a paint brush. The environment you work in can have an incredible effect on your energy, creativity and focus — but, let’s be real, you don’t have time to read a textbook on color psychology. Instead, there’s a handy infographic from office supply company Quill that consolidates all the information you need into one handy guide. Now that’s productive time management. If your workspace is big on teamwork, you may want to suggest that your office design include blue, which...

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A Retro Home

A Retro Home

To “update and clarify” a 1961 house in Houston, architect Ray Booth of McAlpine and Elizabeth Kennedy balanced the original aesthetic with a contemporary point of view. Booth tweaked the ’60s white-brick facade with new vertical shutters and added a steel-gated front door and custom lantern. In the foyer, an antique bench sits against a custom screen painted in Benjamin Moore’s Briarwood. Booth established the new openness of the house in the foyer, where he updated the original window and removed carpeted treads and risers from the steel staircase, replacing them with stone “floaters.” The bench and Chippendale-style chair came...

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Saen – Dark sky

Saen – Dark sky

Life does not always go smoothly. If you think about how you would handle these problems in advance, you will be able to cope with them and continue your job and education. What do you do when things go wrong?Cars break down, people get sick, and other problems or hurdles occur. It is easy to give up. However, if you think about how you would handle these problems in advance, you will be able to cope with them and continue your job and education. What are hurdles or obstacles?Think about people running in a race. They are running, and then...

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