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Office Space, The Raw Basics |
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It's finally that time where you've got your home business online up and running, there's books all over a few shelves in your old Sauder bookcase (that you assembled), your 6' x 2' collapsible banquet table has your computer and peripherals spread all over it, and you call it your home office space. Hey! It's a mess, but it's an organized mess --- or so you keep reassuring yourself. Been there, done that --- right?
Well, let me ask you something. If you are in the type of business involving meeting clients in person, do you really want to say "step into my office?" They'll look at you and think you should be saying "Step into my organized disaster area --- watch out for the land mines!" If the description I just listed above sounds like your office space, you need some help. You need to turn that disaster/office area of yours into what resembles a professional office. And of course, that first question that so fluidly rolls off your tongue is "Where the heck do I start?"
When it comes to setting up your home office, "You gotta have a plan!" And you've got to have a Plan B and maybe a Plan C as well. There's always a little conflict here as to what you should do first. Most people make up a list of furniture and supplies, go out and buy it, and then when they are setting everything up, they quickly realize that they do not have room for all the office furniture they purchased. Let me ask you something. Why wouldn't you measure the size of the office space before buying everything? Now you're stressed out because that bookcase that has to be close to your desk with all those books, documents, and manuals will not fit.
You failed to remember the first, most important step of putting together your home office is why that happened. Think for a minute. Why are you undertaking this project anyway? Well, there are two reasons as I see it. First and foremost, you want to get organized. Secondly, you need to clean up that mess you've been calling your office space. So here is the first rule when it comes to the organizational process behind setting up that office. Fit the furniture to the office --- not the other way around.
I saw it too many times in all the years I spent in the furniture business. A guy and his wife come into the store looking for an entertainment wall but they forgot to do two critical things. They didn't measure the wall that they want to put that piece of furniture on so we don't know what size unit to set them up with. Secondly, they didn't get the dimensions of the television so we don't know what size center opening to use in the entertainment center.
So that is your first step before we even get started with design and layout. Measure your office space to see if what you have now will fit. Or if you've already looked at some office furniture for the improvement, you need to know the measurements of every piece and be able to set it up properly in the allocated space. |
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