Filed under Decorating on October 23rd, 2008:
Creating Clever Spaces For Small Apartments
For apartment dwellers, living in small spaces brings out the very best in design ingenuity and creativity, allowing the construction of functional spaces where there were once chaotic messes. Hence, the office space in an apartment closet. Here’s how you can create one too.
Inspirational ideas for creating your closet office
- Light, bright and perfectly organized closet desk
- DIY new closet/office
- The Desk Fits! Wide desk meets wide closet
- The Container Store’s Elfa closet system
- Small, but chic San Francisco closet office
1. Select a closet space that is large enough to accommodate your needs.
2. Decide if you are going to purchase a desk to fit your closet, add a shelf to serve as your work space, or re-purpose a piece of furniture you already have. Be sure to measure your closet space and use the dimensions when considering the route you want to go with the desk.
3. What kind of storage do you need? You can install shelving up the closet vertically and purchase boxes, binders, and plastic bins to organize your things and place on the shelves. Or purchase small scale rolling drawers and carts to slide under your desk and hide away your office paperwork and supplies.
4. Don’t forget extras that make your space functional like a power cord, a desk lamp, an organizing tray and, depending on where your office is located, a curtain to tuck it away.
Cool Accessories and Things to Buy
- Cord cover kit
- Shelves
- Rolling storage drawers
- Staple-free stapler
- Canvas file boxes
- Paperweight clocks
- Page up babies
- Mail organizers
- Photo bookends
- Cable IDs