To be productive at work it is essential to have a well-organized space. We're sure it's not the first time you've heard it, right? Having everything you need to work at hand and optimally organized avoids distractions and frustrations.
Are you one of those who waste too much time looking for what you need in your workspace? If so, we advise you to be attentive to our ideas for organize desk drawers. With a small budget you can optimize their space.
We have a month before we get back to the routine. It is a month in which most of us enjoy our vacations and in which we try to think as little as possible about returning to our routine, we know it. However, in Bezzia We believe that there is time for everything and that we can all dedicate one or two afternoons to preparing our work space.
What are the steps to follow to organize optimally desk drawers? The first step will undoubtedly be to analyze what tools we need to carry out our work. It is very difficult to create suitable dividers for the drawers if we do not know what we are going to store in them, do not you think?
What tools do you need to do your job?
Ask yourself this question while enjoying a morning at the beach or commuting on the subway from work to home and create a objective list of necessary to carry out your work from home or prepare your exams. Do you need pens? Different colored pens? Stapler? Paper clips? Different colored folios? A notepad? Ink cartridges? ... Don't miss anything.
Once you have the list made, take out all the supplies you currently have on your desk and decide which ones are useful and which ones are not. Set aside the latter; keep them in a box, take them to another place in the house where they will be useful ... Cross off those you already have and buy those that are missing.
Organize your supplies by categories
Do you already have everything you need to work comfortably? The next step will be organize your supplies by categories and assign a space to each of them. It is important to group them by categories, since only then will we know how much space we should dedicate to each of them and which are, therefore, the most suitable dividers to organize them.
It is important to be aware that we will use more and less frequently. This way we will organize things so that the most recurrent are in the drawer with the best access and at the front of it.
Find / create suitable separators
Now that you have an idea of what space you have available and where you want to store everything, comes the fun and creative part of this process: find / create separators that allow you to organize and keep the different categories in order. There are many ways to do this, as shown below.
In the market you will find numerous solutions to organize your drawers, however, these do not always suit our needs. If we want to personalize our drawers and optimize storage, the ideal is to measure it and find or create dividers of appropriate sizes to the items that we want to store in them.
We can achieve it by combining boxes of different sizes. You probably keep boxes of some gifts and / or purchases at home: watches, tissues, small electronic devices or even underwear. If not, you can create them yourself with cardboard in a very simple way, as you can see in the image above. It is not complicated and allows you not to waste an inch of the space available in your drawers.
If you are handymen, you can also create beautiful slatted dividers of wood . A few slits are enough to fit one another or a bit of glue. The result is elegant and allows us to adapt both the size of each hole and the height.
As you have seen, a large budget is not necessary to optimize the space on our desk. With simple elements and materials we can achieve great results. What idea to organize the desk drawers do you like the most?