How organized is it? Do you have any issues with it that you would like to share? Lets put our heads together and organize our offices!!

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Dawn Riley
A Virtual Assistant in Paradise
Our business is about making yours better

I used our spare bedroom as my office. It has a wall of closets so it is VERY nice to have all that space. One side has my work supplies and the other side is home to our personal files etc. I am in the process of getting a new file cabinet (from my sister=free!) which will help me with my active files. I also have a dresser in here (it looks more like a credenza) that houses my office supplies. On the other wall I have a rectangular table that I keep my daily files on. I love it in here actually!

Okay for ideas on organization, I would recommend keeping your active files at your finger tips. I used to be so anal about filing everything in a drawer that I got sick and tired of opening and closing all day. I have an active client set of files and then an active business set of files, which are files relating to marketing etc. It's way more efficient for me!

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Doreen R. Patrick, MVA, ACS, CIVA
www.virtualbusinesspartners.net

This is a hot-button issue for me. I have a really lovely adjoining "den" to our master bedroom that I use solely as my office (we are fortunate to have another spare room for my husband's home office/ guest room).

For me, I prefer only my laptop, note pad, pen and cell phone to occupy the desk. However, I find myself cleaning back to this point at least twice a week as my son (AKA: the destructor) runs around like a crazy/dancing/giggling kiddo! The destruction does not even occur during business hours, it occurs when both my husband and I are getting dressed in the morning or checking/responding to email after dinner (there is no door to the den).

I am one of those people that needs complete silence and order to work. In fact, I remember hanging out in the most secluded part of the library at college for all of my studying.

For a recommendation? I recommend clearing off your desk and preparing notes for the next day; prior to signing off for the day. I think I might try that again....

I don't have a home office, although we have the space for it I prefer to just sit with my laptop in the middle of the main room of the house near the glass door to the backyard...I don't have anything else, actually we are literally and completely paperless and virtual....my laptop is my office. And I keep it very well organized (it's the ONE thing I actually do clean up on a regular basis)

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This is my office.

I've since purchased another desk and put it beside mine underneath the window and that's where my two printers now sit. I also have a whiteboard and credenze housing my stationery stash.

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Kylie Short
Tilda Virtual Services - Making virtual personal

Kylie,

Thanks for showing us your office. I do office organization for others and yet I'm never quite happy with mine. It's definately a work in progress.

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Bette Creek
http://bettecreek.blogspot.com/
www.ashbusinessservices.com

Mine at the moment is a corner in my bedroom until we get my daughter moved upstairs. Then I'll have her room which has one wall of build-in bookcases and a nice walk in closet. I'm patiently waiting

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Deb Frawley
Gem's Virtual Office

Kylie, I love that post about and pic of your office (and how funny that you refer to your husband/biz partner as Code Monkey As you know, mine is Codehead!)

I take it back that my 'office' is nothing more than my laptop, we do have a huge whiteboard - crucial to planning and development!

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I have a large "office built-in" cabniet in a corner of my bedroom. You open the cabniet doors and you'd see a top table for printer, and underneath that is for my computer. Lots of shelves. On bottom of the cabniet I have a filing drawer and a pull out table to write on.

It's so nice to have, you can just close the doors and hide your mess

But the problem is - I don't like to be "cornered" so I always work in my living room where there's plenty of openess, air, light and warmth coming from my large windows.

All paperwork I have are basically on the computer.

Kylie I love your office! When we had our construction company we had a similar set-up in a spare room. We have downsized considerably since moving to FL. We went from a 5 BR to a 3BR and about 1500 SF less. I sacraficed it all for my sun and warm year round weather

I have a desk next to my bed in my bedroom that houses my printer, stapler, paperclips, pens and a 3 tier letter tray. The top tray is labled to Read, 2nd is to Action Required and the 3rd is to File.

My laptop is usually all I use during the course of the workday though. I bring it all over the house, in the car everywhere. I work a lot outside in my lanai too. I have a filebox that I use that has a compartment for general supplies with hanging folders that I bring with me if I do need something.

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Dawn Riley
A Virtual Assistant in Paradise
Our business is about making yours better