Magazine Storage
January 9, 2010
We store our magazines in the bathroom (even if we don’t read them there; ok, sometimes we do). I designed this cabinet to block the view of the toilet and provide a little privacy, but also to store magazin
es on the toilet side.
We labeled the sections with David’s P-Touch. The top one is the inbox. When we’re both still reading that particular magazine, it’s in the inbox.
Once you’ve read it, you move it to the other person’s pile, next shelf down. The pile on the left is labeled “Marci” and the one on the right is “David.”
Once you’re done with a magazine on your pile you move it to one of the piles on the next shelf down: Library (these go to our local library’s magazine exchange and get recycled - I just grab the pile once a month) or Keep (these are things like professional magazines and eventually are taken to the off
ice).
The system has worked really well, as long as it’s on your to-do list to take care of the piles once a month. But the to-do list is a subject for another day…
What You Already Have
January 8, 2010
I haven’t posted in a while, and here is why: rather than accumulating more stuff (even inexpensive, beautiful stuff), I’ve been trying to pare down, have less stuff, and organize what I already have.
Most of the stuff I’ve obtained recently has been stuff that helps organize other stuff.
So, since that’s what I’m interested in right now, that’s what I’m going to write about: organizing my stuff, organizing my life by making my spaces (work, home, car) less cluttered, systems for getting things in order.
Of course, I’m an architect, so this for me is naturally space-related, and the aesthetics matter and the cost matters. And what is cooler than a simpler, more organized life. So really this amounts to the same thing that duckbell was always about: the search for affordable cool.
