Home Business Planning & Organization

Home Office Design - Basic Planning and Organization
This site offers a succinct description and advice for a home office, concentrating on three major areas: work space, support space, and active storage. Other helpful pieces of information include advice on energy, privacy, organization, and the separation of home space from home office space. As with any home office advice site, the objective is to get you organized and productive.

Organizing Your Home Office
Organization is the key to keeping a home office running smoothly and to keeping your home office from eventually spilling out and taking over your entire house, and according to this article, filing is the key to everything. A good filing system is the keystone to an organized and well-run office and this article is filled with tips for creating and maintaining a good, simple, and most importantly workable filing system. According to this article when any kind of paper enters your office it falls into one of 5 categories: Take Action, Read, Trash, Hold 30 Days, and File. The author details each of these five subject headings and helps you decide what goes into each one. Once your papers are sorted into one of these 5 categories, which the author says should not take more than half a day, keeping your office litter-free becomes a much simpler matter. Another point this article makes is to open your mind to different containers in which to file papers. You are not stuck with a traditional file cabinet. The author makes several suggestions for alternative file holders, everything from wicker baskets to decorative shopping bags.

10 Tips for Organizing Your Home Office
This website provides ten tips for organizing your home office. Tips include relating to your family and establishing business hours, choosing a home office location, choosing comfortable furnishings for your home office, organizing home office files, using wastebaskets, creating electronic filing systems, selecting shelving and cabinetry for your home office and creating archived and back up formats of electronic documents.

Organizing a Home Office
Brief tips for home office organization including creating a simple filing systems, getting rid of unwanted paper clutter, purchasing a book to use for bookkeeping, purchasing functional and affordable furniture, using baskets for home office storage, logging in expenses and home office income, grouping telecommuting work tasks, and setting aside separate time for clerical tasks.

Home Office Painting
For the crafty home office workers, this website offers sample home office craft projects. Learn how to paint a corkboard, create a scrabble desk, modify a clipboard, paint a filing cabinet, paint a mailbox, create a post-it center, paint a mailbox, make a funky shelf, resurface a desk, paint furniture, painting tables and bookcases for your home office.