Decluttering the home office

After moving into our new house, painting, buying furniture, assembling the furniture, painting the furniture, reorganizing, and finally, setting up the rooms, I was anxious to get everything in our new home office set up the way I’ve always wanted it. One of the biggest problems for myself in a home office is the epic amount of tangled cables, computer equipment, and downright crap all over my desk. After some thinking and internet searching, I set off on a project to get all this equipment properly organized.

I found couple of articles on the interwebs about installing cheap pegboard on the bottom or back of a desk to keep cable- and device-clutter to a minimum, so I decided to hack together my own solution inspired by these examples.

Materials:

  • Pegboard - 24″ x 48″ section
  • Steel eyes - Qty. 4 (for my table, YMMV)
  • Wooden dowels (if you need them) - small enough to fit through the eyes

Tools:

  • Saw
  • Sandpaper
  • Drill
  • Pliers (if you have a hardwood table)

You could probably get by with less that this, but these are the tools I had and used.

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