Spring Decorating Ideas for Awakening the Senses in the Home Office

In the frenzy of spring redecorating and cleaning, don't forget your favorite place, the home office.

The home office can be a complete room dedicated to work, or just a corner tucked away in the corner of a room somewhere. The home office invites piles, papers, work, and disorganization. If you dread sitting down at the desk in your home office, mainly because you can't see the top of the desk past the dust and the paper, consider giving it more than a spring cleaning. Give the home office a spring re-awakening, by working on a new spring decor.

Spring Decorating Ideas for Awakening the Senses: Sight

The sight of your home office may send you screaming in the other direction. The solution? Put as much as you can out of sight.
Find or make a place and put everything away. Yes, everything. Are your files out in the open? Are you in desperate need of a filing cabinet?

Sort thorough the paperwork, tossing what's old, seeing what you need, to find out what kind of storage you need. Purchase a short drawer filing cabinet, or go all out and buy yourself a new desk with filing drawers.

Also buy a canvas open-topped filing bin for the files that you use all the time. A colorful box or design will add some life to that old office and the color will spring it to life.

If your desk is against a wall, and the wall is blank, use it in your spring decor plan to make it useful anddecorative . Invest in some wall-mounted filing folders, and a calendar. If a paper calendar is not for you, find a useful dry erase calendar board at an office supply store like Staples.

Office supply stores like Staples have been adding more and more decorative items, like desk accessories to their inventories. Selecting a brightly colored and matching desk accessory set will invite you to use your home office more this spring.

Even better than just a dry erase calendar or board, is one that is also magnetic. The magnetic dry erase boards come with round and bright magnets, which liven up any office space that was hibernating.