Reader question: End table filing cabinets?

Reader Sarah asked us the following question:

I’m preparing to move from a large suburban home into a small urban apartment for one year, and I want to take a minimum of files with me. Ideally I’d find an attractive lidded file basket or box that could do double duty as an end table in my living room. Any suggestions?

My favorite, multi-purpose filing cabinet is the Jeeves Filing Cabinet from Levenger. It stores hanging files in letter and legal sizes, your briefcase, includes a lap desk, and can also serve as an end table or footstool. It comes in two wood finishes and even is on wheels. This is one valuable piece of furniture if you’re limited on space and do not have a traditional home office.

I hope that this helps, and good luck with the move!

Posted by Erin on Jun 14, 2007 | Comments

2 comments posted

  1. Posted by Molly - 06/14/2007

    I just did something very similar to this using Ikea end tables (Leksvik). It’s got spaces for two baskets on the top shelf and a large open space on the bottom shelf. I purchased a very attractive file box that fits on the bottom shelf of each table, and I’ve got tons of file storage that no one even notices – plus the whole thing was quite inexpensive!

  2. Posted by Nate - 06/23/2007

    Another option would be to store your paper files offsite. I currently have a scanner which i can bulk load paper into. At night, I set it to automatically scan all the papers. Every morning, I take ten minutes to organize and rename my scans that are output from the software.

    Then, once a week, I take the paper files to my storage space. This also adds a little redundancy in case of fire, data loss, etc. And with OCR software you can even make them all searchable, and a harddrive holds alot more files in alot less space.

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