How to Personalize Your Desk

Use a desk caddy, bins, or stylish trays for small items., Try bookends to keep folders, books, and binders in place., Manage your schedule with a calendar., Choose daily use supplies in colors and designs you like.

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Step-by-Step Guide

  1. Step 1: Use a desk caddy

    Wall space can also be used for storage with options like open shelving, cubes, or pegboard to organize loose paperwork and hang tools like scissors.

    Be creative with storage: use decorative glasses to hold pens, repurposed and repainted food jars to keep paper clips, or even spray-painted muffin tins to keep a drawer organized.
  2. Step 2: or stylish trays for small items.

    Unique sets are often found in thrift stores but you can also repurpose pieces of wood, marble or other heavy materials to make your own., A large, markable version is easy to use and can be personalized with pictures and drawings.

    DIY a perpetual calendar: attach 3 mug hooks to an inexpensive wood plaque, write the twelve months of the year as well as two sets of numbers (0-9) on blank gift tags.

    The tags hang on the hooks to display the date.

    Paint and customize the wood and tags to suit your taste., Unique magnets and push pins can be playful and useful.

    Customize pens and pencils, tape dispensers, staplers and other items you already own with patterned washi tape.
  3. Step 3: Try bookends to keep folders

  4. Step 4: and binders in place.

  5. Step 5: Manage your schedule with a calendar.

  6. Step 6: Choose daily use supplies in colors and designs you like.

Detailed Guide

Wall space can also be used for storage with options like open shelving, cubes, or pegboard to organize loose paperwork and hang tools like scissors.

Be creative with storage: use decorative glasses to hold pens, repurposed and repainted food jars to keep paper clips, or even spray-painted muffin tins to keep a drawer organized.

Unique sets are often found in thrift stores but you can also repurpose pieces of wood, marble or other heavy materials to make your own., A large, markable version is easy to use and can be personalized with pictures and drawings.

DIY a perpetual calendar: attach 3 mug hooks to an inexpensive wood plaque, write the twelve months of the year as well as two sets of numbers (0-9) on blank gift tags.

The tags hang on the hooks to display the date.

Paint and customize the wood and tags to suit your taste., Unique magnets and push pins can be playful and useful.

Customize pens and pencils, tape dispensers, staplers and other items you already own with patterned washi tape.

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