The Home Office is Becoming an Integral Part of a Home

With many employees still working from home and companies looking into the logistics of satellite offices, the home office is quickly becoming an integral part of a home and we offer some tips on the best organisation.

12/04/2022

 

 

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Having a dedicated space allocated for a home office or study area is quickly becoming a way of life for many families, as either or both parents work from home and children spend their time with online learning and studying. Even a small home office provides you with a place to set up your laptop or tablet and catch up on daily news, interests, or work. A full home office outlay can be costly, especially if your employer isn’t subsidising the setup, so it makes sense to rent the office furniture you need.

While designing a home office that meets your wants and needs is essential, so is ensuring that the room stays organised and tidy, and even more so if the home office or study area is open to the rest of the living space.

With the above in mind, take inspiration from the home office and study spaces and use them to design and organise your home office.

 

 

An organised home office allows you easy access to anything you need
without having to search to find it.





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Why Organisation is Important

No matter if it is your home, your work office or your home office, organisation is essential if you want things to run smoothly. Being surrounded by chaos permanently leads to feeling unsettled or anxious and ultimately affects our health. An organised life is a happier and more relaxed life and one that is also more productive, both at home and at work.

Organising a home office, like tidying up a home, saves you time on daily tasks and lets you complete these faster and more efficiently. Getting organised is not a difficult job and, if given thought and done properly, you can continue to be organised in your work and life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wall shelves - floating or on brackets - provide office
organisation without taking up floor space.




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Wall-Mounted or Freestanding Shelves

Some people prefer open storage shelves while others, mainly those that aren't as fussy about keeping their home organised, prefer to keep things out of sight. By now you should know what type of person you are and whether or not you can keep open shelves neat and tidy or if it is a better option to have storage with doors or drawers. I tend to be the latter and like to keep my disorganisation behind closed doors!

Installing shelving on a wall or buying a standing shelf or oversized bookcase gives is a reasonably inexpensive method of organisation. Shelves are easily mounted onto a wall, but if this is not possible, a freestanding shelf unit or large bookcase can be used to contain all your office essentials. Builders stock a selection of floating and other types of wall shelving as well as a range of freestanding storage shelves and the like.

If you are working on a tight budget, you could always be on the lookout for a second-hand bookcase that can be converted office organisation, or perhaps you already have an old bookcase that can be given a new lease on life with a makeover? An organised home office doesn't mean that you must spend money to achieve it.

 

 

Here's a clever way to upcycle an old bookcase.
Sand and paint and then turn it on its side to mount
onto the wall and provide storage for
files and office accessories.




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Shelves are a great way to organise all your office essentials, but it is also important that you incorporate boxes or baskets for items that would normally collect on a desktop. A drawer unit or two is also helpful but it all depends on whether you want to make do with what you already have at home or invest in some additional pieces of furniture for the office.

 

 

Having basic DIY skills and a few power tools gives
you the opportunity to make custom furniture for a home office,
or even just modify readymade pieces to fit your needs.




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Closed Storage Organisation

Being a messy worker myself, I understand when things get so hectic that you simply cannot find the time to keep your home office neat and clean as a pin! That is when you need to look at storage that helps keep your office organised while also keeping clutter out of sight.

Anything with drawers or doors is perfect for keeping the home office presentable, although you will still need to make an effort to tidy and organise cupboards and drawers regularly. After all, the purpose of this article is to be more organised.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Custom storage such as the drawer units below can easily be assembled and painted to provide much-needed organisation for a home office or study space.




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Wall-Mounted Organisation

Now that we have covered organisation for files and office essentials, it is time to look at items that you use daily. You ideally want these to be easily accessible and possibly even in your line of sight if they are to remind you of appointments or events. For this, you can look at a pegboard organisation system, use a whiteboard or chalkboard, or even a softboard where you can use pins to keep everything in place.

Pegboards are not that easy to find but it also isn't that difficult to make a custom pegboard using materials you can purchase at any Builders store and make for little cost. A whiteboard will cost a bit more but there is still the option of making your own chalk paint board using readily available blackboard spray paint or can paint.

 

 

Pegboards offer the perfect solution for organisation
of items you use on a daily basis.




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Mounting a whiteboard or chalkboard onto a wall above or next to a desk is handy for work or study, and the kids can use it as well. It is a good idea not to spray or paint chalkboard onto the wall, as this is solvent-based paint and difficult to remove or cover up. Spray onto a 3mm-thick masonite or hardboard and then adhere to the wall with heavy-duty double-sided tape.

 

 

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The Bottom Line

It doesn't matter if you work from home on a casual basis or your employer has set everything up for you to work away from the office, being organised as you work lets you be more productive and able to do what needs to be done without stressing out. Running an office at home takes a bit of getting used to and if you can make it easier with a neat workspace and a clutter-free environment - all the better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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