Spring Storage In The Home Office

Storage, storage, storage! Use simple cardboard boxes to keep stuff under control!
Spring brings the joy of new life and new beginnings. After crawling under the bad February weather, I now feel full of energy. My heart beats faster and my head of spinning with new projects for the home. But for every new project I need some supplies, so I gathered up the origami paper, colorful yarn, foam core, glue sticks, Fimo clay, fabric scraps.... boy, there was a mountain of supplies on the home office floor! So I took the cardboard storage from the hallway and moved it into my creative space. The warm weather means we don't need storage for hats, scarves and gloves, anyway!

I'd like to share a few tips for setting up a storage area: 

1. Make it look slim. If you remember my previous arrangement in the hallway, there were 4 cardboard boxes. Now I only use three of them, because I don't need them all and the whole thing looks less bulky this way. 

2. Set up a color mode. In honor of the new season (and because I'm not a big fan of brown, anyway), I wanted to celebrate with a few green accents. I just added the lime apple lamp and the green houseplant. Instant color boost in a few seconds!

3. Balance the setting. The way I stacked the 3 boxes was a little unbalanced, leaving me with a bland area to the left. I just added these thrifted animal paintings that were already in the room (as you can see in this post) and the storage area came together in perfect harmony :)

Update: the pring storage system has been featured at What About Co, 504 Main, It's Overflowing, Too Much Time, Bowdabra, I Should Be mopping The Floor, twelveOeight, The NY Melrose Family, The Life Of Jennifer Dawn, A Diamond In The Stuff, 52 Mantels and Suzy's Sitcom. Thank you so much, this really made my day!

        

Organization: Hallway storage

Nothing like a little storage to brighten up my day! It's no news to anyone that things have a constant (annoying) tendency to pile up everywhere in the house. You turn around and there are tons of stuff on the kitchen counter, on the coffee table, in the entryway and basically on every chair in the house. But in a small home like mine, there is one rule: Edit, edit, edit! And put stuff away. Use the height on the walls. Improvise.

As I was wondering around my favorite supermarket, I spotted these cardboard storage units in the school supplies department. I just bought them because they were... well... extra-cheap! But when I assembled them back home, I saw great potential in them. Cardboard can be extremely sturdy. No wonder that they make furniture out of it! Anyway, I just installed the four units on the hallway wall and threw a bunch of accessories in earthy colors. After all, it's gonna be Fall soon enough :((

Actually, I like this Burberry style catch-all. Who new that all my wondering stuff could fit in there? Scarves, keys, chargers (I hate you, little friends with endless electrical cords), instant glue, cloths and stray pens, you've got a new home now!