How to Make Your Home Office Your Favorite Place

Guest Blog #89, Entry #542, June 2, 2011

If you are like me, your home office has become the room you spend the most time in! Whether it’s because it’s where your access to the internet is housed, or because the home office is a refuge from the rest of the house, or because you are a work-at home professional like myself, your home office should be your favorite place in your home.

Pooja Gugnani

Today, my Guest Blogger, Pooja N. Gugnani, from Organizing With You, Inc., gives tips for organizing your home office and making it fit your lifestyle.

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Working from home can be a refreshing alternative to enduring long hours in traffic and a rigid schedule- if and only if your home office has a system that complements your needs well! As a professional organizer, I’m seeing an increasing number of clients working from home so they can spend more time with their family.  Consequently, this has created a growing need for more efficient home office organizing systems. At Organizing With You, our goal is to get clients to maximize their space and minimize their stress.  We try to ensure that those clients with  a home office or a home based business are able to continue matching the productivity and timeliness achieved in the traditional office setting.  Here we’d like to share some quick tips on getting your home office organized so you don’t regret your decision to stay home and work:

Home Office – Before

• Keep it Simple: You don’t need an elaborate system; focus on functionality and create a system that accommodates your working style.
• Take Control of Your Surface: Sort through all your papers; visit the IRS website to determine which papers you need to keep.  Always shred important documents!
• Create Space: If your home office is small and desk isn’t big enough, use wall-mount storage for papers you need handy.

Home Office – After

• Don’t Be Afraid to Invest: First, make sure you have a comfortable office chair and a desk that supports drawers.  If needed, buy an over/under keyboard drawer, wireless mouse & if applicable, a monitor arm to make more room on your desk.  Invest in a Shredder!
• Don’t Mix Business With Family: Separate all personal and business papers into two different piles.
• Add Appeal:  Make your home office look simple and pretty by adding a few plants, pictures and anything else to give it a personal touch!

Remember, it’s all about achieving a balance between your office and your home!

Pooja Gugnani  is a professional organizer and owner of Organizing With You, Inc.  which is committed to providing residential and business organizing services to the entire Chicagoland area.  Specifically, they offer services in whole-house or room-by-room decluttering and organizing, organized relocation, office filing and storage solutions & special needs organizing (ADHD,anxiety etc)..  Their goal is to maximize your space and to make it visually appealing, while creating efficient systems that you will find easy to maintain. Pooja recognizes that every client has unique needs, and will incorporate your goals and expectations in the organizing system she will devise for you.

Call Organizing With You for a Complimentary 30 minute Consultation at 312.282.8280.  And, please visit www.organizingwithyou.com for more information on pricing & services offered.

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