Additional Storage!!!!!

What do you do when you have to convert the office of your dream cottage into a nursery and therefore give away your desk and only organized filing system?????

You have to be sneaky and look for storage/filing options in unusual places, like empty corners, under beds, unsuspecting pieces of furniture....

Here are some of the ideas that kept spinning in circles in my head:

Should we buy a cute little 2 drawer filing cabinet similar to the ones at Pottery Barn? No, it would look out of place if it wasn't displayed in a office.

Hmmmmm...should we buy a cheap filing cabinet and put it/hide it in a closet? And take up some of our very valuable, practically non-existant closet space?! No way!

Ugh! Who wants to keep paper anyway?! Let's just throw it all out! Now Katie, don't be silly! You can think of something!

{Insert "Ah ha moment" inflection here}

Hey! Wait a minute!!!!! What about the cedar chest that Julie gave us?! *PERFECT*

Here is a picture of the cedar chest (and Ollie the helping cat) before we added our filing system:We are using this cedar chest as a coffee table so DVDs and other tv related things were being stored in it. All of those things have found a new home in a piece of furniture that my husband lovingly refurbished for the baby's room.....but we couldn't get it around the corner and into the nursery...oops! maybe we should have thought of that before all the hard work went into re-doing it!

Anyways, here's what the inside of the chest and our sweet little Mango look like now:

We have our current documents filed on the left side, papers to shred (separated by the year to shred them) on the right, and miscellaneous office supplies in the middle!

LOL, now the hard part is staying this organized!!!!! HA!

Have a Happy Saturday!