Organizing Your Home Office

There are several things you can do to organize an efficient home office:

• If you don’t have a specific room, delineate a space with furniture or furnishings.  
  • Consider purchasing a room screen and some sort of table or desk for your computer.
  • another idea is to purchase a desk armoire to house your “office”

• Create zones in your office space, such as:
  • Work space-probably your desk or table
  • storage for office supplies-could be a cabinet, shelf or closet
  • reference area for books, CDs, and magazines
  • file cabinet or a file tote

• Create an area for a calendar, schedules and to-dos
  • Consider purchasing a dry erase weekly calendar board
  • use your electronic calendar and sync with your mobile phone
  • Create goals, schedules and to-dos with large index cards, printout sheets and/or blank books

• Use the vertical space even if it is for decorative items like pictures, shelves or light fixtures

• Consider this neat, customizable Daily Planner System from Pottery Barn
  • Magnetic dry erase board
  • Magnetic calendar board
  • Corkboard
  • Letter bin
  • Office organizer
  • Chalk board
  • Linen pinboard

• Consider using a scanner and digital filing system. You can scan receipts, business cards, and also documents. Typically, the software included with the scanner identifies and extracts the important information from the receipts and automatically organizes it for you.
• Remember to include some decorative touches, like artwork, photographs, plants, fresh flowers and/or aquariums.