Hey guys!
It’s Bea.
I’m in the Refinery29 office, roaming the hallways,
looking for a coworker to ambush because
I’m going to give their workspace a Five Minute Flip.
I want to show you guys how in five minutes,
you can transform your space and your life,
so let’s go.
Oh my god!
Hi!
Someone just touched me.
It’s me!
Oh hey Bea!
Oh hey!
What’s up!
I’m ambushing you because
girl I see the way you’re working
and I think we can do better.
I think so too, honestly.
You are the very first Five Minute Flip.
I’m going to take five minutes.
I’m honored!
Go to town on your desk.
Not going to have snap peas flying around.
You have a lot of things going on.
Will you just give me a little run-through?
I like to be hydrated.
Water.
Bottle.
Baby bottle.
Hydration is key.
I love color and also these.
That looks dead.
Well at one point it was a blossoming rose.
There ain’t no color going on in this.
If you were to describe your ideal workspace
in three words, what would they be?
Okay.
Colorful,
clean,
Okay.
and efficient.
Can you come and do this to my home?
I mean.
This is exciting.
Is there anything else I need to know?
Just be organized, that’s it.
That’s the whole point of the show.
Let’s get five minutes on the clock.
What I want to start to do is clear the whole desk
so I can see the space and see what we’re
working with as far stuff that she wants to keep on
the desk and also what could just go away.
I mean a dead plant.
There’s nothing you can do.
It’s dead.
So she told me that she has this baby bottle that
she needs to give away, so I’m going to put that to
the side because that does not
deserve a place on her desk.
Food – let’s put that away.
Really, Lucie?
Two mousepads.
Who has a mini library at their desk?
Okay, so she has these lights and already
I see what I’m going to do with them.
I love this idea.
We’re just going to tweak it a little bit.
I’m going to use these little clips
to attach Lucie’s lights along the back
border of her desk.
So before Lucie had this just kind of sitting on her desk.
It’s the thing that turns the lights on.
I’m going to attach it underneath.
I’ve got these that will literally hold sixteen pounds.
Convenient placement.
It’s like magic.
Getting a little cable wrangling – if you will.
Lucie loves color.
She’s got these cool ice cream prints.
We’re going to move them back into this space.
Love a good gold pushpin.
And if we know anything about Lucie,
she likes ice cream.
Moving the stuff back in.
Aww yeah.
Put it under the monitor.
The other thing I got for Lucie is
a little organizer and I actually think it will benefit
her more if we tuck it away on the side and
hide the storage space for Lucie’s desk.
That is called efficiency of space.
This was another little art project that Lucie had.
Basically taking what Lucie already had
and repurposing it.
Perfect knickknacks for this little catch-all.
Mousepads, but she doesn’t even have a mouse.
Her last plant.
Just repurposing some things she already had.
I think time’s up.
Come, come, come to your new desk.
Oh!
Look at these lights.
You reinvented the lights a little bit.
The three things you told me before you left
were colorful, clean, and efficiency.
You already had the color going on.
It was just about reworking what you already had,
the lights stringing them so they just
weren’t taking space on your desk.
Cleaned – I mean you had some trash on the desk.
It was really just a matter of throwing some things away.
A stray aspirin running around.
Oh.
Yeah.
And efficiency – using things that you already had.
This awesome jar full of lights is now a penholder.
This little catch-all is like your miscellaneous pile.
Your mug.
Your plant.
That became one.
Clean desk, natural light.
Hope you’re feeling good.
It’s great.
Thank you.
Good luck.
Thanks.
It is so James Bond.
Lights on.
Lights off.
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