5 Ways to Organize Your Home Electronics
Most homes have quite the design of electronic equipment. Between cellphones, computers, laptops, DVD players, game consoles, tablets and music accessories, keeping everything organized may be tricky. And then there are the cords, chargers and instruction manuals that come with every single item. Rather than scrambling around searching for the TV remote or rummaging at the garage to get long-lost paperwork, consider following these basic ideas to keep everything neat and organized.
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1. Manage office gear. When you’re setting up your home office, make sure to keep printers, computers, fax machines and other equipment off the ground. Machines sitting directly on the ground (especially on carpeting ) can be a fire hazard and are more likely to get tipped over and ruined.
This office has a custom made solution using pullout shelving beneath the desk. You may try out this exact same concept with a walk-in cupboard with a shelf or big, deep towels.
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2. Get rid of cable clutter. Few things make a room look more cluttered than a heap of tangled wires on the ground. Control cable clutter in a desk like this by drilling a few well-placed holes. Either drill a small hole into the top of the desk to thread through, or drill a hole into a nearby cupboard and tuck the strings along with a power strip inside. The little corner for your printer in this area is excellent too — the printer is small enough it is easily pulled in and from its storage area as required.
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Clean up the mess under a desk by bundling the strings together using a wire wrap and hammering it together with Velcro to the inside of a table leg. In the front and side, the wires won’t be observable. From that point, you can run the strings from the bottom of the table to a power strip, with more Velcro to keep them together. In this desk, the powerstrip was attached to the bottom of the desktopcomputer.
Should you come across a chunk of tangled wires, take some opportunity to untangle them and keep them correctly. Label every strand with masking tape and a permanent marker so you always understand what it goes to.
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3. Set up a charging station. By placing every small item that needs to be charged — such as telephones, mp3 players and tablets — in one place, you will always know where they are. Keeping everything in one spot helps to keep other rooms from looking cluttered.
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You can also try out buying a multi-device charging station to maintain cords untangled and tucked out of the way.
Keep smaller cords and chargers and items like USB drives stored in transparent zippered pouches near the charging station. It’ll keep them neat and tidy, and you’re going to be able to locate exactly what you want at a minute’s notice.
4. Use boxes and binders to keep things organized. DVDs, CDs and paperwork to get electronics can quickly become a major mess. Quit shoving manuals into the back of piling and drawers DVDs on the coffee table, and also invest in a few cheap storage containers instead.
Binders are excellent for manuals and guarantees. Assign clear plastic sheeting for each electronic item in your home and give it a transparent label. Purchase a couple CD and DVD binder sheets and begin saving your collection in a compact area.
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If your collection of CDs and DVDs is still fairly small, a couple boxes will do the trick. Mark each box with the type of press indoors, and keep the discs in their cases, label-side up. In case you still have cassettes and VHS tapes, you can move them to CDs and DVDs. Online companies such as Audiomover provide these solutions. And should you want ideas for what to do with your old tapes, check out this ideabook.
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5. Consolidate things based on purpose. Create separate storage areas for gaming, music and videos. Invite family members to maintain each region clean by installing an organization system for all of the bits and pieces. Labeled bins and boxes or dangling wall organizers can keep the space clean and make it easy to discover that frequently-disappearing remote.
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Keeping home electronics arranged is really like organizing any other part of the home. Just take some opportunity to label and clean everything, and you will save yourself time and frustration in the future.
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