You may spend around 2,000 hours per year in a cubicle at work, so it should be decorated just as nicely as your home.
Adding personal touches to your workspace will help you feel more calm, comforted, and cozy.
Luckily, there are ways to personalize your cubicle to make it less drab and generic.
Here are a few designer tips and tricks for decorating your cubicle while keeping a professional appearance.
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Color Scheme
A designer tip for decorating a cubicle is to select an item with multiple colors, such as a piece of art, and use that item as the jumping off point for your cubicle color scheme.
Select one dominant color and two secondary colors that are in your piece of art.
For example, assume red is your dominant color and purple & yellow are your secondary colors.
Decorate your cubicle with office items that are red. You can get a red coffee mug, red file folders, red book ends, a red hole punch, and red binders.
For your secondary colors, decorate with smaller office items that are in that color. You can get some purple pencils, purple paper clips, yellow pencils, and a yellow stapler.
Try to find items that have all 3 colors. Maybe it is a red picture frame with purple stripes and yellow dots or a red mouse pad with purple flower petals and a yellow center.
Organize
The best way to decorate your cubicle is to make it tidy, neat, and organized.
Take advantage of all the innovative organizational tools #ad available.
A designer trick for making your cubicle look larger and more sophisticated is to keep most of your work surface empty, so make sure that there is an assigned place for all items necessary to perform your job.
Privacy
Many people want visual or sound privacy at work, however they share a cubicle or work space with others.
In order to get privacy, consider adding a privacy screen #ad to your desk.
Many privacy screens are made of sound absorbing fabric that can be used as a tack board.
You can pin decorative items or to-do lists to your privacy screen tack board.
The tack board can also be helpful for those who want to limit germs being transferred to their work surface from coworkers.
Keep it Professional
Try to limit the amount of personal items you bring in from home. One family photo is enough.
Designers know that above all, your cubicle should have a professional look.
Avoid anything too juvenile that looks like you don't take your job seriously, such as toys, cartoons, or anything that might be found in a child's bedroom.
A Candy Dish
If you are new at your job and want to meet new people and make friends fast, consider adding a beautiful candy dish to your desk.
Encourage people who stop by to have a piece of candy or perhaps a peppermint.
Make sure that the candy is individually wrapped to stay clean.
Use Vertical Space
If your cubicle walls are taller, take advantage of the vertical space.
Determine how to attach items to the cubicle walls without damaging them.
Hanging items on walls is a good way to keep your desk clean.
Lighting
Office lighting tends to be harsh and have a blue tint.
The blue tint is good for creating focus but does not give you a warm and cozy feeling.
Consider adding a small lamp to your desk with a warmer light bulb to soften the harsh lighting.
Shop Around
You can look for office supplies in office supply catalogs, large office supply stores, online, and more unconventional places.
Many furniture stores now carry home office furniture and interesting office supplies in trendy colors.
Organizational stores also carry unique office supplies in the latest color schemes.
A designer trick is to consider painting or upholstering items to coordinate with your decor if you can't find exactly what you are looking for.
Don't forget to check out online auctions for inexpensive and unique items to decorate your cubicle.
For an extra designer touch, decorate your cubicle using items that are not intended to be office supplies, such as beautiful decorative baskets, gorgeous glass or ceramic containers, and live plants.
