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?

 

 

In Business & Blogging

Would a Serviced Office Benefit You?

Author Nicki CawoodPosted on

The school holidays are fast approaching, indeed we have less than two weeks before my days of quiet and concentrated working are suspended for six weeks. From a family point of view I can’t wait; the kids will be out some days at a childminder and holiday clubs and we do have a lot of adventuring planned.

Juggling work and family life during the holidays isn’t however always the easiest of tasks. It has taken years however I have finally manged to work out ways in which I may balance my working hours and the needs of my clients with precious time with the kids. It sometime involves working very early mornings, very late nights and even the odd weekend but it is only for six weeks however we’ll manage.

I am fortunate in that the work that I do may largely be scheduled at whatever time suits me. Business meetings tend to take place via Skype and between us I can’t remember the last time I had to force myself into a business suit.

I know a lot of parents however who don’t have the same luxury as I do and who need to work during the day in a professional environment (by this I mean somewhere that isn’t littered with Lego traps or has background noises that make it sound like you are at the zoo). Renting an office full-time regardless of whether you have children or not may work out overly expensive, especially if you have a perfectly good office at home you may use the majority of times.

What may work fine office-wise most of the time might not be adequate when it comes to holding meetings.
What may work fine office-wise most of the time might not be adequate when it comes to holding meetings.

Using a serviced office such as those offered by Skyline Offices could well offer the solution to a number of problems that many who work from home have to deal with. Having nowhere suitable to hold meetings, having nowhere quiet to work when the family are at home or finding somewhere more appropriate than a hotel lobby when away for a time on business are all dealt with by renting a serviced office.

These offices come stocked with practically everything that you might need in the event of wanting or needing to work from home, with a secure wi-fi connection, numerous telephone points, relevant office furniture and chairs as requested and a number of additional devices and extras which you might need from whiteboards to printers.

I won’t pretend that I haven’t been tempted by the idea of renting out one of these offices myself in the past, especially when on a deadline. Being isolated from distractions and yet having everything I need at my fingertips could be the answer to those ridiculously busy weeks where I end up working at 2am to ensure a project has been completed fully when in reality I could have been tucked up in bed by 9pm if I’d have a distraction-free zone to work from.

Whether you are looking for a part-time office solution during the holidays, to use as and when required for special projects, when working away from your base or in the case of a colleague of mine, to be able to keep working after a recent house move with her broadband provider making her wait some time for a connection a serviced office could be just the thing.

*Written in co-operation with the mentioned business

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