New Year Office Organizing! I organized my office nook with new baskets, tags and a bright and happy new look!

New Year Office Organizing

Happy January, friends!! Do you love getting your home neat and tidy for the new year?? I love it and I’ve had a really awesome January Declutter Challenge for the past 5 years! We tackle one space each day and by the end of January our whole house is so organized and clean!

Office Decluttering

This week, one of the spaces we are tackling is our office/create space! Right before Christmas I wallpapered one side of my office and I love the happy pink feeling the wallpaper brought to my creative space. But my office nook was frankly a big mess. So I teamed up with Hobby Lobby to transform my office nook!

Hobby Lobby Home Decor Section

I headed over to Hobby Lobby to find some items to help with my office makeover. Hobby Lobby has so many great organizing items in their Home Decor Section! There are all kinds of baskets, shelves, hooks and containers to get your home organized!

Wicker Hyacinth Basket Set | Pewter Wall Basket |Brown Three Tiered Shelves | Wicker Hyacinth Basket Set with White Bottoms | Round Gray Basket Set | Square Lined Chicken Wire Basket Set | Rustic Tin Numbered Basket Set | Corrugated Metal Crate Set | Country Wood Craft Set

How to Create a Office Nook

I turned a corner of my craft room into an office nook! It’s so easy to do. You can turn almost any corner or any room into an efficient place to work and it can also be used as a study space for your kids!

Create a Work Station

Start with a desk and shelves. Add as many shelves as you have room for on your wall. We have super high ceilings so I added three. You can see the before picture of how my nook looked. I loved the wallpaper but it did make my space seem darker and smaller than it does with the fresh white walls.

Add Containers to Hold Office Supplies

I found these Hyacinth Baskets with White Bottoms in the Home Decor section at Hobby Lobby. I love the contrast of natural material with the painted bottoms. They also come in two different sizes which was perfect for my shelves.

Corral Smaller Items in Smaller Containers

I found these white plaster pots also in the Home Decor section. I love how light the white pots look and the plaster texture is so interesting. I used one of the smaller pots to hold my pens and it’s so accessible right next to my keyboard. I used two more of the same pots and put faux flowers in those.

Organize Your Containers with Tags

I found wood tags in Hobby Lobby’s wood section. I printed labels on the tags and hung them on the baskets with pretty ribbon. Hobby Lobby’s ribbon is my favorite. And want to know a secret?? It’s almost always on sale 40% off every other week! I use their ribbon for projects all year round!

Add Pretty Elements to Your Shelves

I added a few of my favorite things to the shelves. My peg family is so sweet. I also added a little house my daughter gave me. Then on the tallest shelf I added one of my favorite wall art pieces, Pink Floral Wood Print. I love how it ties the pinks in the ribbon and tags, along with the pink faux flowers and my office chair.

Turn an Architectural Piece into a Photo Display

The last thing I did was I turned the Floral Cut Out Wood Wall Decor piece into a photo holder/mood board. I love cutting out magazine photos and displaying them as I brain storm project ideas. You can also slip photos, business cards or to-do lists into the grooves of this wall piece and it’s pretty as well as functional. I spray painted it a light pink to go with the colors in the floral print!

I also framed a picture of my husband and I on our wedding day to go on my desk!

Enjoy Your Organized Space

Now my office nook is ready for a year’s worth of projects! I love the brighter, updated space. It makes me happy every day!

Get Organized with Hobby Lobby

Be sure to head over to Hobby Lobby and see all of the ways they can help you get organized this year!

What projects are YOU working on this month?

Let me know in the comments!

xoxo

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Here’s a look into my living room turned office and crafting space! 

Any Room Can Be a Craft Room

I love being creative, but being creative can also be chaotic and messy! I’m Jen a mom of 5 and I’ve been blogging for 11 years. Every single day I get up and get to do something that I adore. Each day I make at least one creative thing and it’s wonderful! Over the years I have had all kinds of different work spaces – from dedicated craft rooms, to bedrooms that I’ve converted into craft rooms, to dining rooms that I turned into my work space. I’ve had so many comments and inquiries about my DreamBox cabinet that I decided to write up why I chose it, love it and use it every day.

A Craft Space that is Mobile

As I get older and my kids go from being small kids and tweens, to teens and young adults, our family home has needed to serve different purposes. When we first moved into our home almost three years ago I created a really cute office/craft room out of one of our upstairs bedrooms. And it was awesome! But then my son moved back home in between apartments. He moved out and then my oldest daughter moved back home after college. I packed all of my creative supplies up into bins and stored them in our basement.

Mobile Craft Room Solution

Having everything in bins made it hard to find anything. And it turned being creative into something hard, instead of spontaneous. So when I found about about The Original Scrapbox’s new DreamBox, I thought it would be the perfect thing for me! I had turned our formal living room into my office. It’s where I blog everyday. But I still didn’t have a workspace to sew and be creative. I would bring the bins upstairs and spread everything out onto our kitchen island and be creative there. But it wasn’t ideal.

The DreamBox

The day my DreamBox arrived was amazing! I ordered it semi-assembled. So there wasn’t as much assembling needed. It came in two big sections and I had some friends help me bring it into the house.

Customizing My DreamBox

Within a few minutes it was ready to go! It came with pegs, shelves, bins and all kinds of accessories. I love that it is so customizable! I bought a few bins to make it feel more like ME and tucked those in with the shelves and bins that it came with. It even came with dowels to keep my ribbon.

Dividing Craft Supplies into Sections

I divided my supplies into sections. I have a section of the DreamBox where I keep my paint, paint brushes and supplies. I have another section where I keep all of my card making supplies – cards, paper, embellishments, adhesives, stamps and pads. And another section where I keep my sewing supplies.

Fold Out Work Surface

The DreamBox has a work surface that folds out. I love that I can adjust the table to THREE different heights. When I am sew I like to be sitting down, but when I am working on a DIY like painting a board or hot gluing a banner I like to work standing up. I love that I can adjust the table.

Places to Store Machines and Tools

Under the table is a space where I keep my machines – my craft cutting machine, my minc and my paper cutters. At the bottom of the cabinet I have two big bins. In one bin I keep fabric and extra ribbon and in the other I keep tools like my Paper Banner Punchboard.

Sewing Storage

There is a space right in front of the table that is the perfect size for my sewing machine and right behind that space is a hole that I put my power cord through to power my machines and hot glue guns.

Making Craft Storage Pretty

I love the shelves above the table. They are different sizes and they remind me of furniture. I styled them like I would style a shelving unit for my office. I have some that are filled with paper, but then I also have spaces that are open and I keep washi tape in pretty containers as well as pretty staplers, tape dispenser and even a little giraffe statue. I love having my cabinet semi open with the shelves exposed because I think it’s so pretty! The sides fold out so I can grab any craft supplies I need while I am working, but then they fold in with the plain white sides showing which looks nice in the room.

Decorating Craft Storage with Removable Wallpaper

One of my VERY favorite things that I did with my DreamBox is I used removable wallpaper to decorate the backs of all of the cabinets. It’s so pretty and it makes my DreamBox feel so special and unique to me. I love using removable wallpaper because I can change out the pattern so easily and it won’t damage my DreamBox.

Another thing I love about the DreamBox is that it has an awesome overhead light. My daughter is in the design program at her college and last semester she had to make these intricate buildings out of chipboard. She used my DreamBox desk almost every night because the light was so good. It;’s great for crafting at night because the light is very clear and bright.

Craft Storage that Looks Like Fine Furniture

The whole cabinet folds together and looks like a piece of furniture. And it’s on WHEELS!! So I can wheel it into the corner and my office looks nice and tidy. That’s so important because it’s the first room you see when you come in the front door to our home!!

All of My Craft/Office Supplies in ONE Place

Now instead of having a basement full of jumbled bins of supplies, I have everything in ONE place. It’s all accessible and easy to reach. It’s a room within a room. It’s like having a craft room on wheels. The DreamBox is wonderful in a craft room, but it’s an amazing idea if you don’t have a dedicated craft room. You can put it in a guest room, a family room, a basement or any other space and you have everything you need to be creative anytime!

Original Scrapbox Discount Code

It’s really a dream come true for me. And I loved it so much that I asked The Original Scrapbox if they would give us a special code!!

$100 off ANY of their furniture products!! The code is TATERTOTS at checkout.

If you want to see my crafting space in action, I do a live tutorial each FRIDAY on Instagram. It’s really fun! Come join in at 1 pm MST — @tatertotsandjello! And you can find out more about how I got started blogging over at The Original Scrapbox in my interview!!

And leave my ANY questions you have about my work space or blogging in general!

Have a Creative Day!

xoxo

I received product in exchange for sharing my opinion about the DreamBox. All opinons are my own. I only work with brands I love. I am an affiliate with The Original Scrapbox. 

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One of my favorite parts of our new Bedroom Makeover is the office nook we carved out in the room. It’s my favorite spot to sit in the mornings and check email. This is our peaceful retreat.

I got a lot of questions on the Bedroom Reveal post about the rug and the desk in that area. Both are from one of my favorite furniture sources – DownEast Home.

DownEast has amazing clothes, which most people probably know. But some of the stores also carry furniture and home accessories too. And when I went in looking for inspiration for my master bedroom makeover, I also discovered that they have a whole new line of rugs that they carry. I fell in love with the modern Herringbone style of this one and it was also the perfect coral color that I wanted to use as an accent color in my room!

And it went so well with the office chair I reupholstered and painted to go in the nook.

I dropped by my local DownEast Home the other day and took a few shots with my iPhone. They have some amazing furniture pieces — tables, chairs, desks, dressers, kids furniture and more. The inventory really flucuates and I find I have the most success if I go in pretty frequently to see what is new.

I had a lot of people asking where DowenEast stores are located – Utah, Nevada, Idaho, California, Colorado, Washington and Wyoming. You can find all of the location details HERE.

Do you have a favorite or secret decor spot that YOU love?? 

Share your favorites with me in the comments.

I would love to know what YOUR favorites are!

xoxo

Rug courtesy Downeast Home. Regardless of sponsorship or product provided, I only post about products or companies I love. For more information, see my disclosures.

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