Organising physical artefacts

I love admiring spaces and thinking about how they work but, when it comes to the physical spaces I use most or every day – my bedroom, my desk, my bookshelves – I haven’t spent as much time thinking about decoration. When an environment functions, I don’t often think about how I can make it beautiful. Indeed, I have never been particularly adept at decorating. This evening I had a discussion about organising mementos from trips: museum maps and guidebooks, and all the other little things I have picked up that I don’t already keep in my scrapbook. I have a paper bag from the British Museum in which I keep my museum maps and other paraphernalia, but it isn’t particularly organised; indeed, despite being red, I seldom look through the bag.This has me thinking about how I can keep some of my physical collectibles – zines, museum maps, clippings, and everything in between – more organised. I made a few immediate choices: to get a letter rack for my zines, to get a new scrapbook because my…