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What is it about a new year that springs up the professional home organizer in us? Is it because we have a new calendar? A new year? New resolutions? All the diets seem to start on January 1, as so do the advertisements for closet organizers. I am getting on this bandwagon by organizing the mountains of paper in my office. Upon the commencement of this endeavour, I soon realized that I have no place to put this Mount St. Helens of printouts, receipts and general crap that will soon erupt and kill us all. So... I've come up with an idea. I'm making myself a desk with plenty of file storage. My office is on the smaller side and there is no room for another filing cabinet and I'm just too darned cheap to buy anything other than makeup lately... so Debby is going DIY.
Stop laughing.
This is the plan. I am going to build myself a cute little (well not so little...it's going to be 7ft!) desk from a door and two small filing cabinets. I have one cabinet already and I'm pretty sure I can scrape up some materials for well under $100 from the second hand stores. And really... it's no more than a little paint, a couple of screws and some praying. We have been making do with a couple of old wiggly woggly substandard desks for too long...especially now that both my husband and I are frequently using the office area.
This is a picture from Country Living website that I received my divine inspiration from. It's a desk in a closet idea, but notice how they use filing cabinets and a simple plain surface as their work area? I love it. Now.. mine will be a black and white rendition of something similar but larger (go big or go home).
I think it's going to look great. Stay tuned for the real deal. Photos will be up as soon as we complete the project. Mmmm... I think I need to paint the walls now.
I wonder how Mark would feel about Barbie pink?
