I’m so happy to be joining my friend Jaycie from Coupon Geek in a 6 Weeks To Restoring Sanity series! So far, I’ve reorganized my mud room and daughters room. And while I have strayed a bit from my original timeline, I am so excited with the results!
Today, I’ll share what I’ve done to organize my home office. This was a big task, since I have my crafts, coupons and blogging stuff all in one spot. A few months ago, hubs and I found this nice corner desk at Ikea. The two tables on either side are separate 4 foot tables that happened to match.
The left side is my sewing/scrapbooking/craft area. Right now I’m working on flannel pajama bottoms for my four oldest kiddos – all the fabric, sewing supplies and patterns are stashed below in the purple bin.
The right side is for blogging and couponing. Three cute containers hold my scissors, pens, and misc office supplies.
The green box holds my to-be-organized coupons. This is a great place to keep local restaurant coupons, as well as coupons from any recent trades I’ve made. I also keep Vocalpoint mailers, and direct mail coupons in here until I have time to organize them.
I have lots of magazines that I don’t want to part with! These inexpensive divider boxes helped me keep them all organized and easy to sort through.
The black boxes on the top hold newspaper inserts that need cutting and copy paper.
For this project, finding the right containers was the key to success. Ordinarily, you’d see fabric, newspaper inserts and unorganized coupons in various piles on my desk! But by taking inventory of what I needed to “put away” I was able to find the perfect size containers and restore my sanity!
The kitchen and refrigerator/freezer reorganization is still to come. Not sure why, but I tend to get “stuck” in a room. For example, I started on the kitchen organization, then decided we should repaint. Once it was painted, Hubby made me a kitchen table out of pine and table legs purchased at the home depot. It is so cute and will be a great place to relax with the kiddos. But now I’m busy rearranging a few things and adding a few more “touches” before I can say it is actually organized. Somehow “decorated” and “organized” get stuck together in my head. So I’ve been hitting the garage sales and thrift stores to see what I can find. The good news is that when my kitchen is reorganized, it will be pretty too! The bad news is that it takes me much longer to get through my “six weeks” than originally planned. Once the kitchen is done, I’ll share some overall organizational tips and techniques along with a great giveaway!
How has your organizational journey been going? I’d love to hear your progress. Did you get “stuck” in any rooms like I did?
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Looks great, Lori! I think we should have called it 16 weeks of Organization to account for our obsessive organizing ways and little "hiccups" like flu bugs and such.
Congrats on the great office. I think the office and kitchen are the hardest rooms to organize!
Jaycie