Make It Nice: How To Organize A Home Office

Key Points:

• Selene seeks advice on organizing a 12'×15' home office cluttered with music gear and cables, aiming for a productive and comfortable workspace without painting or changing flooring.
• The recommendation includes sorting items into appropriate storage types like drawers, cabinets, or labeled bins, with IKEA’s modular IVAR system suggested for flexible, affordable storage combining open and closed sections.
• Alex's high-traffic home office doubles as a mudroom and storage area, complicated by a toddler and dog; advice focuses on decluttering by sorting items into keep, relocate, or discard piles, and investing in practical storage such as slim shoe cabinets, lockers for kitchen overflow, and wall mounts for vacuum cleaners.
• Both cases emphasize the importance of giving everything a designated place to reduce stress and maintain tidiness, plus adding elements like rugs, lamps, and wall art to finish the rooms.
• For covering mirrors to protect pet birds from aggressive reflection behavior, the suggestion is to keep birds in mirror-free rooms or use decorative tapestries or scarves larger than the mirror frames to cover them stylishly when needed.