Still in PHASE ONE, our third session's goal was to tackle the home medical office where patients visit. It was cluttered, dusty, and confusing. It resides in the downstairs family room and shared space with a big screen television and futon, where the children and adults would move chairs in front of the t.v. when they wanted to watch or play video games.
I suggested to my client that we should have some kind of separation between the family portion of the room and the professional portion. We moved the futon so that it was directly facing the the t.v., with the back of the futon facing the office area. This formed a separator between the two spaces. We placed various waist-high shelf units at the back of the futon facing into the client area. Immediately, the professional space looked like a separate office space.
Now, only focusing on the professional space, we removed EVERYTHING from every shelf, wiped it clean (everything was dusty from having not been used for so long), and only placed back the items that had purpose in that space. This involved a lot of sorting and organizing (and it always looks worse before it looks better), but through this process, we were able to discard a lot of papers and remove many items that had no business being in the office. We also organized every drawer and the top surface of the huge executive desk that runs along two walls in an L-shape. At the end of the day, we had revealed a lovely, clean professional space.
The final result was an office space that a patient could walk into and feel as if they are not in someone's family room. This was a very inspiring work session!
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