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A calm Japanese-style room with paper-screen windows letting in soft morning light, a pale ash wood desk and chair, and a large black and white Great Wave desk mat spread across the desk.

Japanese Desk Setup: What Goes Where, Colours That Work and Four Looks to Copy

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A Japanese desk setup is mostly empty space, natural materials and one piece of art. Here is the layout, the right mat size for your keyboard, and four complete looks built around Japanese traditional designs.
A driftwood desk by a window overlooking the sea, with a long desk mat showing a red and black ink wash mountain landscape under a keyboard and mouse.

How to Make Your Own Mouse Pad From a Picture That Prints Sharp

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Making your own mouse pad from a photo? Here is how many pixels each size needs, how to crop your picture to the mat's shape, and where to keep faces and words so the stitched edge doesn't touch them.