I have heard some wonderful advice about how to do big projects. Often I hear handling big projects in small steps. I often find this suggestion very useful. I am often a bit of a procrastinator and doing something small is much more manageable and doesn’t seem so intimidating.

But there are times, when you just want to get the whole kit and caboodle over with. I would like to discuss the advantage of doing a big project all at once, namely a storage shed or an office.

One process that I find very helpful is to take everything out of the office at once. This includes furniture and book shelves. The virtue of this is that I am able to vacuum in places that haven’t seen the light of day for years. Some people would be even be willing to wash or touch up walls. (For me, it’s one miracle at a time). If the items of the office are too heavy and you’re doing the project alone (I’m a bit of a wimp) than I just move the furniture around. Since my last big project I have purchased sliders that should help me move big items in the future.

With the room complexly clear I am then in the reposition the furniture and redesign of the office. You’ve used the equipment enough now that you know what items need to be more easily accessed and you know that items need to be positioned close enough for plug access.

You can reposition the books, hardware, and software for most frequent use to match to easiest access.

The point is that once you put the things back in the office that you want, you have the stuff you don’t want in the office still in the front room. At this point you can determine what needs to be thrown away, donated, or what can be given to recycle resources.

The advantage of the all-day project for a storage shed is that I am able to organize like items in like areas or like use. My camping equipment is now located all in one area for easy access. And the same goes for other item of like use.

One thing that is also useful is that if you have friends that want to do their ‘big’ projects, maybe you can negotiate labor swaps. I’ll give you four hours of labor and you give me four. Many hands make a lighter load, right? And the task is more tolerable when you can do it with friends or family.

Well that’s it for today.  Success to you, when you start and finish your next big project.

If you have some ideas of what you think are unique ways to store items, organization ideas, or other ways of efficiency, please feel free to comment.