If there's any area of the home that sees the most change on a daily basis, it has to be the home office. Our desks are ever in flux, often wearing different hats as a shipment receiving area (oh, piles of mail, I'll get to you one day), a hideaway catch-all, dining table (oh, crumbs, I'll get to you…after I sort the mail), entertainment area, and of course, where our tech devices lay to rest and recharge until we need them the next day. It also happens to be a section of the home most often neglected from both an organizational or aesthetic perspective. People tend to buy a desk, a chair, a lamp, place their computer setup onto and hope for the best with little thought or planning about how those elements all work together and within the space they occupy. What often results is a mess of cables, wires, haphazardly placed peripherals and piles of "stuff" that only gets worse with time.

Here are 5 ways to beat back the battle of the bulge on and around your desk... 

  

The Homies has moved on from the nomination to the voting round. This is a tough category, as home tech CONTINUES to be under represented (which means it's wide open). We got a lot of DIY blogs here, but this is all about tech & the home. The two candidates for best home tech blog is now between Technology Your Way and Wired's Gadget Lab. Cast your vote!


  
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