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This room is our home office, craft room and spare bedroom but seeing as I work from home the main day to day purpose has become a working home office. Working from home and running blogs requires well organised and easy to use storage but I like to keep it pretty, if a little ramshackled, too. I don’t like work spilling out into our living room or onto our dining room table – I like distinct separate areas for relaxing and work and can never manage to concentrate properly if I attempt to work on the sofa.
As with everything else in our flat everything has a place (I feel this is especially important if you have a lot of bits and bobs) and here’s the rather dominating storage area of my office – I’ll share the rest of the room another time. As we live in a basement flat the ceilings are rather low so it can all tend to look a bit squished in but hey, you’ve got to work with what you’ve got and it’s nice to have the storage all in one place.
Mr Thrifty picked up this Ikea Expedit unit (still in the original packaging!) from Freecycle last year to provide storage for my work needs. This is where my favourite mantra of ‘a place for everything and everything in its place’ comes into its own
Striped Red & White Boxes
– Invoices
– Writings Clippings
– Sample Recordings Of My Radio And Voice Over Work
Green Checked Files
– Paper Work Related To Blog
– Clippings & Dvds Etc. Related To Blog
Purple Boxes & File
– Work Business Cards, Thank You Cards And Postcards
– Blog Business Cards & Thank You Cards
– Receipts To Send To My Accountant
Magazine Files
– Industry Magazines
– Forms I Send Out To Clients
Black File
– Paperwork I Need To Take To My Solicitor
The unit also provides just enough room for me to dump post or paperwork when I come into the room and a place to perch my backside when I’m opening or filing later on.On top of the Expedit balance old wine crates which Mr Thrifty has been using for various kinds of storage since he left home for uni nearly eleven years ago. They store my craft, hobby, vintage childrens’ and photography books (plus a few middle of the road, non committal books a guest can read if they’ve forgotten to pack a book) along with craft bits and bobs, sewing and thread boxes, a mini sewing machine and daft trinket-y things I’ve found in charity shops.Next to that sit blackboard craft drawers which I talked about a couple of weeks ago. They house small crafting items neatly behind chalk labelled fronts, the small drawers are really easy to pull out and take to my crafting spot individually rather than fiddling with small items in my hands which may perhaps get lost. And on top of that the ‘Rosenboug Blue Cheese’ box, a bargain bootsale find at £1, the man I bought it from didn’t initially want to sell it because it contained screws and bolts which he was selling but after a bit of ‘oh pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease’ he allowed me to snaffle it.
It contains several pots and cups which house pens, knitting needles, paint brushes, scissors and similar bits and bobs. Having them stored this way means everything is kept in place neatly and I can just pick up the box and take to and from either of the desks in the office or out onto our front steps which I’ve come to see as a natural spot for a bit of a vitamin D swamped crafting spot.
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