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Home » Crafts » My Cute and Crafty Way to Organize My Home Office

My Cute and Crafty Way to Organize My Home Office

May 4, 2015 by KC Coake 22 Comments

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I’m super excited to share my latest quick and easy craft with you. I had a total disaster of a desk with papers everywhere. I figured why just organize my home office when I can create something cute in order to get things organized? Anyone else with me?

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

I took a store-bought file organizer and customized it with a super easy craft. The craft was the easy part. The organizing was the challenging part…well not really, but it did take a little bit of time.

I LOVE the end result! It was totally worth the time.

Today, I’ll show you how to customize your own file organizer as well as give you a couple of tips on how to organize the mess of papers that seem to amass at an alarming rate…at least if your house is like mine. 

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

Let’s start with a look at the before of my home office. Home office is a rather generous term. My home office is this desk and the shelf at the end of the desk, which holds a lot of my supplies. I also have the chest of drawers in which I store additional supplies. I showed you that along with a few decorating ideas in my mini hall makeover. I also have a card table that I use as my ‘photography’ studio. I’m super fancy like that. 😉

I’m sure you can see that I have papers covering almost every part of my desk. It is pretty much always like this. The thing is that while I am a creative person, I am also a person who needs things to be organized. I need the clean and clear space in order to feel creative. When things are cluttered and messy, so is my brain and therefore my creativity.

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

The most offending part of my desk is this little corner. I organize a lot of my business in binders. I thought the cute little basket would hold them in place. It doesn’t. Things always slide down and then fall all over the place.

I also kept a pile of papers to the side of my desk of projects I need to work on or things that are a need my more immediate attention. And doesn’t everybody keep Cookie Butter on their desk? I totally need to mail that to a friend…it has been sitting there too long.

The piles don’t work. I have thought about how to organize this for a long time. I finally came up with an idea. Offray was more than willing to sponsor this post as well as give me the ribbon that I needed to create my new organization idea. Thanks so much Offray!

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

Supplies:

  • Desk Organizer (This is the one I got at Target)
  • Cute Files (affiliate link)
  • Offray Sheer Asiana Shocking Pink 1/4″
  • Offray Sheer Asiana Pewter 1/4″
  • Offray Navajo Turquoise Grosgrain 1/4″
  • Hot glue gun
  • Hot glue

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

This could not be any easier. It will take a little bit of time. Maybe about an hour.

Weave your ribbon in and out of the file organizer (and please ignore my chipped nail polish…keeping it real…it often looks like that as I forget to make time to take it off).

Do this with all three ribbons. Skip a row and start the pattern again. Continue until you have filled your organizer with ribbon.

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

The top of the organizer doesn’t go completely around because of the handles. Wrap your ribbon around the handles. Hot glue in place with a dab of glue on the metal and on the adjacent ribbon.

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

Trim the ribbon.

 

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

The top of the organizer will look like this, with the ribbon wrapped around the handles.

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

For the rest of the file organizer, you will be able to start and end your ribbon in the same place. Do this by weaving the ribbon around the entire organizer. At the end, just tie the ends together and trim your ribbon short.

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

I kind of thought the little knots looked cute, so I contemplated using this side as the side that would show on my desk. Rather than tying knots in all of them, I tied a bow with one of the ribbons.

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

It is a different look and I think it looks cute. Not as clean lines as I want, but cute none the less.

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

I chose to use my filer organizer on my desk with the clean lines side showing. Look at the difference!

I took about 30 minutes to 1 hour to go through all that stuff and all those papers on my desk. I threw out a bunch. The rest fit in the file box with my new way to organize papers.

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

The thing that I love best is that this file box holds the notebooks and binders in place and doesn’t slide all around. I also LOVE that I now have a clean and organized desk. I love seeing the open space.

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

I use file folders, but I rarely commit to the name of the folder. I usually use a sticky note with the name of the file. I place the adhesive side at the top where I write the name. Then I can change the name any time I want. These sticky notes (affiliate link, but I was given mine by 3M at a recent blog conference) are small but the whole thing is sticky, so I won’t have to worry about them peeling up.

When you organize your papers, organize them by groups.

I went through and put the papers that go with classes I’m taking together, papers relating to social media go together, papers for sponsors/brands go together and of course I made some personal files as well like those for school papers, etc. Each group goes in a hanging folder with those files in that folder. It keeps it simple, easy to find and makes my home office organized.

I love diy crafts that help me get more organized. This cute craft will help me organize my office and all those papers. Looks quick and easy, too.

The end result is that this one little tool to organize, cleaned up my whole desk! It took me about an hour to add the Offray ribbon and personalize it. I, of course, selected colors that match my blog because that is fun to me. Then it took me about another half hour to an hour to actually de-clutter and organize. I think every minute was worth it.

I absolutely love seeing my clean desk. It makes me feel successful and like I’m on top of things. Which a lot of the time I feel behind and overwhelmed, so about 2 hours to drastically change those feelings is worth it to me.

What tips do you have to simply and quickly organize a home office?

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  1. Jenna says

    May 5, 2015 at 6:57 am

    I would have NEVER thought to use ribbon that way!! So creative! I love it!

    Reply
    • KC Coake says

      May 5, 2015 at 8:43 pm

      Thanks Jenna! It was an easy and fun way to add some personality and color. So glad to have my desk organized and looking cute.

      Reply
  2. Vanessa says

    May 6, 2015 at 10:42 am

    Such a gorgeous way to stay organized!

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    • KC Coake says

      May 7, 2015 at 8:40 pm

      Thank you! It makes such a difference for me. How about you?

      Reply
  3. Amber Price says

    May 6, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    I seriously love that! So cute!

    Reply
    • KC Coake says

      May 7, 2015 at 9:15 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
  4. Ashley Phipps says

    May 7, 2015 at 1:18 am

    Oh my gosh! What a super cute idea!!!

    Reply
    • KC Coake says

      May 7, 2015 at 9:23 pm

      Thanks! It is cute and helps me be organized, which has been a tremendous help to my efficiency…always a great thing!

      Reply
  5. Virginia Fynes says

    May 7, 2015 at 10:41 am

    Super cute idea!

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    • KC Coake says

      May 7, 2015 at 9:23 pm

      Thanks!

      Reply
  6. Amy Anderson says

    May 10, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    How cute is this?? I love these kind of simple ideas!

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    • KC Coake says

      May 11, 2015 at 9:08 pm

      Thanks, Amy! It is rocking my desk and keeping me organized. Nothing better than that all wrapped up in a cute package. 🙂

      Reply
  7. Amy Davidson Latta says

    May 12, 2015 at 5:49 pm

    So cute, and I love how you added the color to it with ribbon!

    Reply
  8. Diana Miller says

    May 13, 2015 at 1:01 am

    Such a fun idea to add ribbon to the file bin! Love it!

    Reply
  9. Heather says

    May 13, 2015 at 8:27 am

    What a clever idea!! Love this simple and stylish tip!

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    • KC Coake says

      May 13, 2015 at 8:44 pm

      Thanks so much! I’m loving how much being more organized has help me be more productive and that the desk is more stylish helps me want to keep it more clean. Can’t beat that combo!

      Reply
  10. [email protected] says

    May 15, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    So cute! I’m jealous of your organization….and how nice you made it look!

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    • KC Coake says

      May 19, 2015 at 8:56 pm

      Thanks Cathy! It was easy. I’m sure you could do something similar.

      Reply
  11. Lynn Nichols says

    July 16, 2015 at 2:23 am

    I like your file holder- I got several old metal desktop file sorters from the OSUsed store and spray painted them in bright green, pink and purple and they also make organizing fun!
    I love your desk chair cover-do you have a post on how to do it? I coulddddd figure it out, but would love to just read directions!

    Reply
    • KC Coake says

      July 16, 2015 at 9:40 pm

      Thank you! Your file sorters sound fun. I can very simply tell you about the desk chair cover….go to IKEA. lol! I bought the chair at IKEA and that is the cover that was on it.

      Reply
  12. Heather says

    March 4, 2017 at 8:17 pm

    You had lots of fun and cute ideas! Although this probably sounds strange but I would LOVE to reupholster my computer chair from the boring black one to something more me. 🙂 thanks for sharing 🙂

    Reply
    • KC Coake says

      March 6, 2017 at 11:41 am

      Thanks! Reupholstering your chair sounds great! Something like that can make such a difference in a room.

      Reply

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