I recently bought a scanner/printer and as with every gadget and piece of equipment brought into the house there are changes to be made in order to fit the piece and for wires to be sorted. I hate visible cables and wires and make it a priority to hide as many as possible. For some inexplicable reason cables on a lot of white gadgets are black! Why is that? Only Apple seem to have realised that if somebody chooses white they will not be satisified with black cables. Duh!
My solution to the problem of the ugly cable was to drill a hole in the top of the desk of the home office and thread the cable through there and hiding the rest underneath.
Since I will now print from the home office and not from Wille's room any more I set up a little station for all the things needed. Plain paper, photo paper, and other printables like CD stickers and also various plastic sleeves are now sorted. I found the sorter in the metal recycling dumpster in the basement at work and had some milky white perspex "trays" made to measure by one of my suppliers at work.
As you've probably understood by now I have a problem with ugly packaging. I can stand the red photo paper packaging because I buy new frequently but the other printing sheets which are less frequently used I place in white cardboard backed envelopes instead. On the right hand front corner I've printed the contents using my Dymo Letratag.
I'm really excited by the scanner in particular, I've already used it for some of my posts, but I've dug up some more "pre digital" photos of our previous homes which I'll show you at a later date. They will show you how our home decor has evolved over the years. I had actually forgotten some details myself...
