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In Business & Blogging, Reviews / Sponsored

Undercover Office Disorganisation

Author Nicki CawoodPosted on

When it comes to online tools, keeping a diary, keeping on top of my emails, social media, clients and everything else business-wise I am a queen. I’ve even written articles giving advice on these very things. I haven’t however before now shared my ridiculously disorganised office space.

I know pretty much where everything is, I have fabulous hidden filing cabinets and everything; I just don’t have a very effectively organised office. I’m the woman who sits down to print off a load of invoices to find that I’ve given the last of the naff supermarket printer paper to the kids to make paper areoplanes or that I’ve chewed my way through the last working biro (a filthy habit, I know!).

A bookcase which has become a dumping ground, a dump box on the desk, and a pitiful filing effort. I would dare open the two hidden filing cabinets or show you the rest of my "organised chaos" out of pure shame
A bookcase which has become a dumping ground, a dump box on the desk, and a pitiful filing effort. I wouldn’t dare open the two hidden filing cabinets or show you the rest of my “organised chaos” out of pure shame

Viking Direct, the well-known (and now much-loved) business and stationery suppliers have taken pity on me and have sent me a care package to get me back on the road to a haven-like office space once more.

A range of items from reams of paper, pens, tapes, and paperclips alongside files, folders and the mother and father of all desktop sorters soon arrived, securely packaged yet without bothersome wasteful packaging. Here are some of the  items that arrived.

My absolute favourite has to be the Desktop Sorter though….

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Perfect for me as an in-tray, out-tray to kep important documents and paper to hand. I’ll be ordering another shortly to use for the boy’s arts and crafts papers!

After letting the office organisation slide I’m now back on top form and better yet have kept everything the way I like it (as in not scattered from one side of the room to the other) for some time now. Everything has a place and I know where that is!

Aside from the fact that the care package (which would have come in at just under £50) had everything and more I needed to get organised this review gave me the opportunity to learn a little more about Viking Direct and have a decent nosy around the website and their ranges.

Previously I’ve always gone for the supermarket office items when replacement has been needed, primarily because I assumed they would be cheaper however I wrong on this. Viking Direct came out significantly cheaper than where I was buying from before and to my surprise I didn’t need to buy in bulk to qualify for discounts as many online business stationery retailers I’ve looked at in the past insisted upon.

With the office looking and feeling great I can stop wasting time looking for things and enjoy my working space again. If you haven’t in the past it could well be worth you looking at the Viking Direct website to see if they would be able beat your current supplier’s prices or help you restore your office to its former glory!

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In Business & Blogging, Interior Design

Could Modular Furniture Be the Answer to My Constantly Evolving Storage Needs

Author Nicki CawoodPosted on

Anyone who follows me across any of my social media channels will no doubt have noticed my quite regular decluttering day announcements. These happen in my house more often than in most others. You see I’m not afraid that anyone here will suddenly be hit by the urge to become a horder; I struggle to find the space to store everything and seem to become regularly overrun by things.

We have a good sized house with two reception room, the boys have their own bedrooms, we have a utility room and a “man den/workshop” which could be used for storage if absolutely needed and yet I find myself filling the house with plastic boxes in a remarkable array of sizes and shapes in a desperate effort to find a home for everything.

I run a business from my home, have two children with a wide range of interests which means they have a large amount of “stuff”, books and nothing seems to have its own place, its own home.

Spotting Room4Interiors recently after they were featured on The Consumer Voice after winning a top customer service award I fell in love. Room4Interiors offer a number of modular furniture options for your bedroom, lounge, office and all of them look as if they could have fallen out of an interior design magazine rather than in one of those furniture catalogues that comes through the post unasked for at annoyingly regular intervals.

My office is in dire need of extra organisation and namely storage and this collection has me practically drooling! I could mix and match sections and set the office up in a way that works perfectly for me, with everything to hand and looking fabulous.

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You’ll see now what I mean here about the quality finish this furniture offers. I would happily re-gift my current office concoction of furniture to restart fresh with a Room4Interiors set-up like this.

What about everywhere else though?

The modular bedroom furniture also has me very excited as it would be perfect for Kieran’s room especially, keeping his clothes properly organised and of course drawers and cupboards could be utilised in any way to met his growing storage needs.

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The site even offers home accessories, office chairs etc to pull everything together and ensure that everything looks great as well as offers practical solutions.

In truth I’ve always shied away from modular furniture in the past simply because the examples I had seen up until now weren’t solid enough and didn’t look as good as these. I simply wasn’t prepared to pay out to create great storage at the price of having ugly furniture!

I am going to have to make drastic decluttering decisions soon if I don’t find a solution to the ever-growing amount of “stuff” we have in the house and R4I look likely to be my saviour.

My question for all of you today is this: Have you used modular furniture and if so what did you find the best thing about it?

 

 

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