This has been a battle for me from the very beginning. To solve the mess of wires and equipment, I spent some time about two weeks ago organizing my “stuff”. For the wires and cables, I used those handy zip ties and rolled up the excess and zipped them together. Shelves help to get the printers and scanner off the side desk. And a flat panel display helps to save space.
Hannah Kate Kinnersley has an article in the Real Estate Journal discussing what can be done to help eliminate this problem.
When relocating his home office, Neal Zimmerman, an architect and author of “Home Workspace Idea Book,” stayed away from bulky commercial office furniture. Instead, he had wall-to-wall counterspace built in, with cabinets below for files and shelves above for regularly used items like pens. He moved extra paper and old files to the basement to cut down on clutter.
Mr. Zimmerman tamed the jungle of electric wires from his fax, phone and printer by cutting a rectangular slot at the back of the counters and letting them hang down and drape along a lipped shelf on the wall below, six inches above the floor. He tried out his office chair for 30 days, and says many catalog companies will let you return chairs after a tryout.
To reduce glare on his computer monitor, Mr. Zimmerman installed a dimmer on the overhead light, uses nonflickering xenon tubes above his work space, and places his monitor perpendicular to the room’s window.
