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04.29.2002

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office space
diary of a home office makeover: part 3
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Now as I already mentioned, we began by stacking two of the original short file cabinets in the closet. The second one stayed out in the main portion of the room. Amazingly enough, we found we had exactly enough space to squeeze in one more file cabinet. To make the best use of space by maximizing vertical storage possibilities, we decided to buy a 4-drawer, tall, deep file cabinet. The addition nearly doubled our file storage space, and gave the boy some much-needed free desk space. And speaking of desks …

on the table
Neither of the "desks" in our office are true office desks, of the sort possessing actual built-in storage space like drawers or shelves and the like. The boy’s desk is a good-sized secondhand table, while mine is just a plain old door with legs screwed into the bottom to transform it into a table. (Note: the door/desk trick is one of the easiest ways to get yourself a big desk space without shelling out the bucks. Just make sure to spring for the pricier solid door rather than a hollow one, especially if you’re planning to keep anything heavy on it – like a computer, for instance.) The good thing about them is that they were both ultra-easy on the wallet; the bad thing is that they take up a lot of floorspace, and provide no place for stowing stuff away whatsoever.

To get stuff up and off my desk, I bought a couple of cheap wire racks (discovered in the kitchen organizing section of my local Target – I think they’re meant for organizing your cupboards but as is so often the case with things you’ll find in my house, they’ve been co-opted for a different use) and placed them at the back edge of my desk top. The larger one, which resides right next to my computer, hosts my flatbed scanner, and is just the right height to allow me to slip my slide scanner underneath, with extra room for my ever-useful Pantone guides on the side. The smaller one sits at the far corner of my desk, and gives me two tiers to store my many miscellaneous office supplies.

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