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Blog: Organizing Small Spaces
 Filing Papers in a Small Space
If you live in a small space you probably don't have a spare room you can devote as a home office. In fact, you may be sorting your mail, paying your bills and reviewing your financial statements in the living room, kitchen or bedroom. So, how do you find space for a traditional filing cabinet? Most of us don't. I've got a great leather file box from Crate and Barrel that sits next to the fireplace. Decorative and functional it stores all my longer-term files at least until I'm ready to scan and shred them. I love this Butterfly File Box from Horchow as well.
Home Decorators are just one of the many furniture companies that have decorative looking file drawers that allow you to bring your files out of the office into other areas of the house without anyone but you knowing they are there. These are just a few of the many different styles of file drawers available. So, don't keep your important papers stuffed away in a cupboard or shoved under the bed. Get them out in the open where no one but you will know they are there.
posted on: 6/10/2008 8:00:00 AM by Joan Kosmachuk
category: Clutter
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Organizing Small Spaces
by Joan Kosmachuk
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About Joan:
Joan Kosmachuk is a professional organizer and personal life coach. Born in Toronto, Canada, Joan moved to Boston in 2005 and lives in a less than 800 square foot apartment in an old brownstone with her husband, Jerry, and their papillon dog, Duke. In addition to organizing, Joan loves to read, write, garden, travel and spend quality time with her family and friends. Check out her website for additional articles and tips on making room in your home, head and heart for the things you value most.
Joan's Website:
www.simpleeffects.com
TV Shows I enjoy
- Small Space, Big Style on HGTV
This show makes me dream of living in an even smaller apartment just to see how creative I could be.
- Mission Organization, HGTV
We all know it doesn't happen in a half-hour, but this show does do a great job of showing just what can happen when a professional organizer works with a willing client. Magic!!
- NEAT, HGTV
Sadly you can only catch repeats of this one, but Helen was my first on-camera organizing coach and as I told her when I met her at the POC in Toronto last year, she was an inspiration!!
Books and Authors I recommend
- Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
timeless inspiration
- Freedom of Simplicity by Richard J. Foster
one of the best books I've read on finding harmony in our complex world
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
Finally a time/task management system for those of us without "regularly scheduled" lives
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
a beautiful novel on every level
- Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies
because it makes me laugh everytime I read it (and he was a fellow Canadian)
- 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
if you love books and you love reading other people's correspondence, you'll love this book
- Lewis, Tolkien and MacDonald
three fantasy writers who make life magical for me
- John Piper, Oswald Chambers, Richard Foster
for spiritual exhortation
BLOGS I LIKE
- Home Goods OpenHouse
Such personable interior designers with affordable ideas!
- Small Space Style
wonderful ideas for decorating small spaces
- organizing LA
nothing like seeing the world of organization through the eyes of Hollywood -- John does a great job of keeping us East-coasters up-to-date on the West Coasters.
Poets who speak to me
- Jane Kenyon
- Anne Lindbergh
- Jeanne Murray Walker
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