The home desk is the creativity and productivity corner of your home office. Whether you’re into your business or a 9-to-5 job, your desk determines the work enthusiasm in you. Researches have proved that a clutter-free workspace keeps you more dedicated, motivated and focused on your job. Look at your home desk — is it clean enough?   

 Well, don’t worry as we all know that cleaning and rearranging would consume a good amount of time. However, organizing your home desk would bring benefits and aesthetic pleasure to your work. No doubt, you would feel calmer, more concentrated and it would escalate your work-life instances. So, here’s to start with:

1.  Clean it up 

Your efforts towards rearranging and organizing a desk would go in vain if you don’t clean it often. Your home desk and its beauty is part of the interior design aspects. And, it should initiate with a thorough clean up session. Rearranging your desk with dust and dirt build-up would be of no use. Therefore, grab all the clutter over your desk and throw them into the dustbin. 

Afterwards, use a dry microfiber cloth to clean the dust off the desk from inside out. In case there are stubborn stains on your home desk, treat them with your desk-friendly cleaning agent. If it’s a wooden desk, then scratches should be there. A new coat of polishing paint can do the magic for you and make your home desk shine like a brand-new one. 

Moreover, don’t forget to discard those non-essential papers, pens, paper clips and whatever that has gone either faulty or outdated.

2.  Put your Faith in Clean and Uncomplicated Look 

When you’re trying to achieve a sophisticated look for interior designing, then a minimalistic approach would be your best bet. And, you need not invest in expensive desk accessories. Rather, you can place simple desk accessories and it would create a divine look for your working environment.   

 Besides placing your laptop or monitor and other computer accessories, make space for your desk essentials. Don’t let the pens, pencils and USB drives stay scattered alongside the desk. Keep a box or holder on your desk to keep them in a place. Additionally, you can use a stacked drawer to keep your journals handy. Even, you can keep all junk out of your sight with the help of the drawer. But, don’t get accustomed to it, otherwise, your desk would face clutter in a few days again.

3.  Utilize the Wall Space above the Desk 

In case your desk is currently running out of space, you can try this simple hack. Just hang a shelf above your home desk. It doesn’t cost too much and you can redecorate your entire desk look. If you can’t make enough storage for your books and smart devices, then don’t freak out. Use a hammer and a couple of nails to fix a shelf over your desk.   

 In addition to storing your tech pieces, you can place your artworks. Showcase them above your home desk and flourish the elegance of your home office relentlessly. Well, you can place some potted plants on the shelf too. Greenery invites peace of mind and that’s what you need in your tough hours. But, make sure that you don’t overstock the shelf with non-essential commodities.

4.  Switch to Digital Application rather than Paper 

While cleaning your desk you would discover tonnes of paper, undoubtedly. Additionally, most of them are of no use at all, whereas papers can create clutter more easily. So, ditching paper is a wise idea for organizing your home desk. Sort your magazine racks, books, documents, folders and it is very important.   

 Throw away those unwanted papers and documents. However, be careful while dealing with insurance, medical bills and other property papers. However, you can copy essential documents into digital footprints. Use any trusted scanner application for scanning and saving those documents. Upload them to cloud storage for seamless retrieval whenever required. And, you can dump those documents that you have scanned already. 

5.  Manage your Computer Desktop 

Besides keeping your home desk physically clean, one must not overlook the importance of virtual clean-up. It’s your desktop or laptop that you use all day for your office work. Locating the right piece of the file at an emergency moment can prove to be hectic if you don’t manage the desktop space. So, avoid the virtual mess and take your tie to organize the computer desktop. Too many stray files on your desktop make your computer feel cluttered. Hence, tackle the puzzle of icons throughout the desktop and clean up the desktop every week. Arrange folders efficiently on your desktop window and you would never miss a piece of a file after that.

6.  Make Use of Drawers

When it’s going out of your hand you can utilize the drawers of your desk. Most of the desks come with in-built drawers. Or, you can just add some drawers with simple carpentry management. And, using drawers might seem cheating on your storage and organization capacity however, it’s a smart approach to keep everything in its desired position.   

 When you are using dozens of pens, USB drives and other essentials, placing them over the desk is not an option. Just place them inside the desk drawers and there you go. Additionally, you can keep your current project essentials in the upper drawer. It lets you access them easily whenever you need them. 

7.  Make Way for Printing Accessories

The demand for print-outs and their associated accessories can make your desk full. No doubt, you might lose interest in your job gradually if your desk doesn’t appear clean. So, offer your printer and all its essentials a special place. Keep your printer supplies in a designated cabinet rather than on the top of your desk.   

 Try to use a wireless printer. Keeping your printer and other accessories would save up much space for your desk. Additionally, your desk looks neater.

8.  Minimize Cable Mess

Do you actually count how many cables are there on your desk? It can be the cables connecting your computer to power, to the printer, to mobile devices and so on. Apart from computers, it can be your mouse, the keyboard that is connected via the means of cables. You can switch to wireless technology to connect your computer to the peripherals.   

 Instead of relying upon Ethernet, connect to your router wirelessly. In addition to this, you can use paper binding clips to attach the cables along the edges of the desk. It would definitely mitigate the wire mess.

 9.  Categorize Items inside the Drawers

To avoid the mess inside the drawers, you can place similar things in one place. For instance, you can keep markers, pens and pencils at a specific corner of the drawer. Whereas you can keep the tools such as cutter, staple, hole puncher together.   Similarly, you can keep stickers, sticky notes and tabs altogether. If they are still creating a mess inside the drawers consider dividers or containers. Hopefully, you can control them by now. 

10.  Avail of a Tray for Keyboard 

Try this simplistic yet creative idea to push your keyboard away when not in use. Whether you are using a laptop or desktop, you might be using an additional detachable keyboard. Place the keyboard in the designed place. And, you can hide your keyboard when you don’t need it.   The main advantage of a keyboard tray is that your keyboard won’t occupy the space of the desk. You will get enough space for rough work on papers and additional storage.

The Home Desk alone Might not Complete the Office Look…

Depending upon only your home desk might not relieve the office stress. You can rely on nearby baskets, hooks and cubbies to get the entire office look. Simply put your jackets on hooks, essentials in the baskets. Try discovering more ways towards maintaining a clean look at your home desk. Keep working with less distraction and more freedom with an organized home desk.