Project Organization: Amanda's Office Area Re-Organization, Part 2

I have a lot of "apparatuses" on my desk that take up a lot of room. A LOT of room. In fact, a big problem for me was that these apparatuses took up so much room, I didn't have a lot of work space! Something needed to be done, for sure. I will talk more about this in later posts, but vertical space is a beautiful thing. After dealing with this mess for a long time:

It was time for another layer of space. I needed a shelf, I determined, to hold some of said apparatuses. So my search started. I don't have a huge desk, so I needed something compact but that would be functional- not just add to my cluster I already had going. I found this in our catalog:

ITEM NUMBER: SAF 3604BL (pg 789 in new catalog)

I thought this could be a good solution- it was only 7" deep, so not obtrusive, had storage on each end for me to utilize, and had good shelf space for me to use. I decided to give it a try and I'm so glad I did! The scanner you see in my "before" picture was able to slide under the shelf, I have a check scanner for making bank deposits that sits on my desk that was able to go on top of the shelf, and my lamp also went on the shelf! It has not only given me more room, but visually it looks like I have more room, which is great. Here is the after picture:

Much better, right?! And I even have room to the right of it for my phone to sit. Which was always in my way before. This has been a great fix! And the storage on both ends has been great- things I need at my finger tips but that needed a home! Love it!