My Home Office Organizing

If spending up to 6+ hours a day in a home office doesn't sound fun, I can say that having it look pretty and being organized makes a HUGE difference in that time I spend. Granted, I DO spend a lot of time doing projects around my house - which is mostly what I blog about - so I'm not sitting all day there. But, for the many, many hours I AM  - it's so nice to look at a beautiful view! 

HERE is the view I left you with last week when I revealed my home office! Isn't it fabulous? I really do love it! So much texture and color! It totally shows my style off! Anyway, now I want to show you what's IN all those boxes on my shelves because they are full of stuff to keep me organized.

The Alex series is the Ikea desk drawer set that I got. Maybe it surprises you, but I haven't exactly gone and made this drawer "beautiful" and color coordinated. It's organized, but in all honesty, filing is one of my least favorite things to do in my office. I put it off constantly. Some day I'll make it look better, but for now things are filed! All of the drawers look pretty much like this - I have three sets of them since I used three Alex file drawer units. This has files for our household, another has files for all my business transactions, and the third one has all our tax information and escrow-type papers. Here are the drawers and how I've organized them:

The other drawers hold everything and then some. I have a couple of empty drawers - believe it or not!

As for the open shelving, here's how I organize in all those containers and baskets. I might add that there are even a couple of them that are empty! 

Here are the Ikea containers. I filled one of them with office supplies and the other with camera equipment. 

Here is the wooden box on the top shelf near the window. I have it filled with my essential oil empty bottles for display or for samples for classes I teach.

The baskets add texture to my wall - a rough texture. That was important to me. So, I used them to hold various supplies and this one, above, to hold printer paper. 

There is even a small box that I use to hold my command hooks and things.

These plastic magazines files are perfect  to hold all my class teaching sheets, product guides, and more for my essential oils business. 

And last, my printer stand. It's fabulous! I love this because I can hide my printer and the paper shredder inside the desk. I can open it up during the day to use it while working, then close it up in the evening. 

As you can see, a home office is important for this organizing gal! I LOVE it and hope it inspires you to work on using unusual ways to organize your office space, too! What is your favorite way to organize things in an unusual way?


Here are all the sources for my office: 

Ikea Desk pieces: 

• Galant printer stand
• Alex file drawer units {3}
• Prägel counter in dark walnut effect

Ikea Shelf:

• Ekby Järpen in birch
• Ekby Bjärnum brackets

Aläng Lamp - Ikea

Chair - vintage, free from friend

Fan - Target

Weave baskets - Home Goods

Plants - Ikea and Home Goods

Pluggis Magazine Files - Ikea

Pluggis White containers - Ikea

Yellow mirror - Target {on clearance in white}

Binders - Target

Wallpaper - Etsy

Spray Paint - Rustoleum

 

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