Revamp your workspace: Easy tips for an organized home office
Imagine your desk is cluttered with old papers, half-written lists, bills, and supplies galore. Yes. You are likely to miss important tasks and bill payments on time.
If you work from home, it is essential to have a dedicated workspace. Whether it is a table you’ve transformed into a makeshift home office desk, or whether you have a room or studio of your own, an exclusive space for work makes you productive.
Here are some home office organization ideas to boost your productivity.
1. Take everything off your desk and practice a minimal desk policy
When you make sure that you have plenty of clear space and reduced clutter, it makes it easy to work. Go paperless whenever you can.
Use floating shelves or moving carts, to keep all the papers, supplies, extra tech items, and books. Floating shelves are also a clever way to display artwork where you can easily swap in new frames or layer pieces you love.
2. Push Accessories Off to One Side
While every desk needs a lamp, a pen cup, a stationery holder, and a trinket or two, everything strewn across your desk makes it difficult to focus on work. Push the accessories to one side of the table.
3. Use drawer dividers
Desk drawer junk can be organized neatly with the help of drawer dividers. Get an assortment of acrylic drawers of varied sizes to keep the sticky notes, extra pens, cards, and flash drives in dedicated compartments.
4. Inspiration board, Vision board, or bulletin board
These are the best way to collect ideas and set the direction for a new creative project. Create your own right above the desk using a foam board, peg board, or grid board. You may also pin notes, cards, calendars, and other treasures.
5. Chalkboard calendar
Use a chalkboard, magnetic, write-on board to record all your important events for the month and hang it write above your desk. Mark any important deadlines or events. This will help keep track of your assignments, meetings, and other obligations. Throw out all your old paper to-do lists and you can also go digital.
6. Fun display for your notes
Old postcards, inspirational quotes, polaroids, and notes don’t have to stay in stacks on your desk. Stick them on the wall in a random pattern to create a fun display.
7. Declutter!
Throw off the thing you do not use anymore. Be it the pens that do not work, scrap papers, out-of-shape paper clips, broken or unused office equipment like sharpeners, staplers, bank statements, old newspapers, and magazines.
8. Organise the cables
Bind the cables of the electronic equipment you use, together with cable ties, clamps, clips, or Velcro wraps so they stay in one place.
9. Bedroom Office
Many of us love to utilize our zen-den space in the daylight hours too. Make a clean break if your home office doubles as an exercise room when you aren’t using it or in your bedroom. This can be as simple as making your bed if your bed is visible from your desk or orienting the furniture, so the bed isn’t visible from the workspace.
We hope you’ll put these tips to use and create a workspace where you can sit, work, create, and be inspired.
