When our second child was born, we converted our home office
into a nursery. Mostly nursery with some office - we honestly have nowhere else in
the house to store office supplies. My husband built some awesome vertical
storage on a wall in the nursery for us to store a few minimal office supplies
and equipment (plus toys). The space was
working okay but not great. Whenever our
son was asleep, we could not access any office supplies for fear of waking him
up. The problem is our house is so small, we really have no place for a traditional office!
Then, a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a great home
organizing blog called IHeart
Organizing. They were highlighting a
reader space where the reader created a home “office” in a kitchen
cabinet. I was completely inspired. We had a cabinet that I was currently using to
store cookbooks, a few pens, and miscellaneous kitchen items. It was a space that could definitely be used
more efficiently. I couldn’t cram a
printer into it, but I could store our highly used office supplies there.
Here is the kitchen cabinet before (yea...it was a mess).
I paired down our cookbooks to a few of my favorites and
stored them in this cute chalkboard storage box I found on clearance at Target. Pens and paper are easily accessible next to
the cookbooks.
I put checkbooks, staplers, tape, a few miscellaneous items
into these storage boxes that I also found on clearance at Target. Coupons are stored on this shelf as well.
Envelopes, stamps, and bills are filed in a metal rack that
I already had. These are stored
alongside a box of cards that I use for birthdays and other occasions. I used old re-purposed
Crystal Lite containers to store chargers that we use on a regular basis.
Our medicine is stored on the top shelf in our medicine safe
along with new recipes that I would like to try but haven’t gotten around to
yet.
As I have used the new {and can I say amazing} space, I
realized that I did need to label the storage boxes. I also covered and labeled the Crystal Lite
containers and added a few more items (umm…like my label maker and a few awesome Martha Stewart products!). When all was said and done, I spent about $20 on our new
“office.”
Here is the completed space!
I absolutely adore it. It is
clean, neat, and practical.
Has something on the internet recently inspired you to
reorganize a space in your home? I would
love to hear your story.
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