Shopping for Mobile Storage

When you work from home, digital accessories, notebooks and office supplies have a way of multiplying and migrating into other rooms, creating a mess. That’s where a rolling storage cart can help.

With shelves, drawers or baskets to contain the clutter — and casters that allow it to move between rooms — a cart can go where you need it and serve multiple functions.

“It can be tucked under a desk,” said Alda Ly, a New York-based architect who has designed a number of offices, including multiple outposts of the Wing, a co-working company. “Or you can pull it up in front of the sofa and use it as a laptop stand.” Some also double as stools.

To find the right cart for your needs, consider how and where you’ll use it.

In a proper home office, “something like a filing cabinet on casters might make a lot of sense,” Ms. Ly said, to hold reams of documents. “But if you’re working from your couch or your dining room, something that matches the aesthetic of your space is more appropriate. It doesn’t have to look like a filing cabinet.”