Reorganizing my Own Office

This is the “before” picture of my office. We have a very small office and have desk for my husband and I, file cabinets and a bookshelf. But I still needed some more space.
Think “up” is always what I tell my clients. Shelves right? But I wanted to do it on my own without having to have my husband help me and I love cubbies. I would have loved to have gone to Ikea and gotten one of their cubby units, but they are over an hour and half away. So I went to Target and got 2 of their 8 cubby units. They were on sale for $39.99 each and they worked great.
I turned my 4 drawer (2 side by side) file drawer perpendicular to the wall and moved the desk against the wall. I now have the wall to use for a large calendar and message board.
I also had a 3 drawer unit on the left of my desk. Since I moved the desk over to the wall, I put that on the right of my desk and brought the printer down so it is actually more accessible than it was up on the 5 drawer file cabinet. I know in these pictures it is hard to see the detail of what I did with the other furniture, but it did make it better and more accessible to wear I sit.
Here is the finished picture.

Products to Organize a kids Playroom

Organizing a Child’s Playroom

Would this be cute in a kids playroom or what? It would be great for keeping all those toys with all the little parts separated into their own bins.
Although there may be bins and baskets and toy boxes in most playrooms, what usually happens is that you get too many different toys together and everything gets mixed up. When you have one container with 5 different toys with little pieces in it….it takes too much time and is not fun to dig out all the pieces necessary to play with the one toy that the child may want to play with. Its much easier to pick up the toy beside it that is altogether. So many times there are toys that aren’t played with anymore, just because its more of a pain than its worth to get the toy out.
A toy unit like this would help in that there are several smaller drawers that you could separate toys into. Its at a good level for most children. It is bright and colorful, so that they may remember that their legos are all in the big red bin and their race cars are in the smaller blue bin.
It would make clean up very easy also.
This is something that I found at the Ikea store that really stood out to me and looking fun and cute and the cost was not that bad.

You can find this at Ikea.com

Ikea cubbie bookshelf

Ikea Bookshelf

I love this piece! It is so functional. The cubbies can keep your books neater than a regular bookshelf. You either need bookends or you have all your books fall over when you take out several on a regular bookshelf. You have spaces to display things and the size of the cubbies are big, so that taller books and albums will fit.
I would love to see this in a playroom. It does come in white so that it may go better in a playroom with that.
You can add either doors (like on the bottom ones) in different colors, or you can get the little bins to go in to hold little things. It would work especially well if you have several ages of kids. The younger ones can use the toys at the bottom but would be unable to access the upper levels (where games that had small pieces and books could be kept).
If and when I get a different office, this piece is going to be in there! (At least I hope so).

You can get this at Ikea.com

Trip to Ikea

Ikea

Yes…this was my first trip to an Ikea store. They just built one in the Cincinnati area. I live in Columbus and we don’t have one here. What a riot it was! I was like a kid in a candy store.
My husband and I stopped there on our way out of town for our 2nd anniversary.
There was so much there that I would love to have!! We are in a bit of limo ourselves with our home. We would like to and need to sell this home, but with the housing market being in such a slump, we would have to take a loss. We don’t have to sell this, we would just like to in order to have more space for 7 people. But we can make due just fine. But it does limit what I can get for spaces. I saw many things that if we do move to another home I would like to buy…but they are on my wish list.
But there were several things that I did see for some of my clients!!