[$129, Pottery Barn] 

Main Reasons I Need One Of These:

• I would like to personalize my work space with postcards, photographs, and snarky buttons.
• My desktop is an absolute disaster.
• It would hide nicely the scuff marks on the wall from the cats knocking over the room divider.

Main Reasons I Question Its Practicality:

• I would need to buy all of the "parts" (chalkboard, whiteboard calendar, office organizer, corkboard, letter bin, etc.) separately.
• Matching color availabilities are growing slimmer every day.
  

But this other one, though pretty as heck, has much less capacity for multitasking, and is only $29 less!

[$99, The Land of Nod] 

Which makes Pottery Barn — for the first time in my life — a steal!