How to Organize Your Home Craft Room/Office
If you've decided to divide up the spare room in your home between craft making and office needs, chances are you're familiar with the problem of organization. Both administrative and artisan activities can take up a lot of space and produce a good deal of trash and clutter, making it important to organize a shared office space for maximum neatness and efficiency. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- 2 desks or 1 large desk
- Trash cans
- Resealable plastic containers, various sizes
- Office supplies
- Desk drawers or drawer furnishing units
- File cabinets or accordion file folders
Instructions
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Separate the craft and office areas as much as possible. If you can, use a separate desk for each and keep them on opposite sides of the room. If you can't do this, keep the office and craft supplies on separate halves of a large desk.
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Stock the room with trash receptacles to make it convenient to keep trash cleared away. Place trash cans in areas close to where you tend to produce the most trash while you're working. If necessary, use receptacles for multiple kinds of waste in different locations, such as a lined trash bin for craft trash near your craft work station and a paper recycling box near your computer printer.
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Designate and/or create storage space for your craft items. Use options that are tidy, but accessible, such as resealable plastic food containers, stackable boxes with removable lids, tackle boxes or miniature chests of drawers. Give each kind of craft supply its own dedicated storage container to keep items separate and neat. Arrange the containers in groups according to the types of projects they're used for; for example, keep wire, beads and pliers for jewelery making in one area of the room and keep polymer clay and paint for model making in another.
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Find places for your necessary office items to go. Use accessible paper storage like an inbox/outbox setup as well as filed storage like a filing cabinet or accordion folders. Reserve drawer space for office tools and desk space for computers. Keep computers at least 2 feet from craft supplies to avoid any small items or liquid products affecting the hardware.
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Purchase multiples of shared office and craft items, such as pencils and scissors. Keep the items in the appropriate places for their use, with the other office or craft supplies.
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Store works-in-progress in a dedicated area. Avoid clutter by designating space for both office paperwork and crafts that you're still working on. Use a large drawer for flat paper items and a covered space for craft projects, such as a large, plastic resealable container.
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