So, you are planning to work from home? Congratulations! You start doing what most people around the world will do about half a decade from now. But, to achieve success with your home office, you need to do things right. Here are some great home office ideas to help you with your business.
Where to start?
Most people will start their domestic office in a spare room in their home. If you have an entire room where you can organize your home office, that’s the best way to do it, but if not, you can use this idea. Create a partition in a room of your home that is larger than you need. Maybe you have a very large living room that you can partition. Partitions give you the seclusion you need to do some creative work.
Go Old-School
There’s n0 shortage of vintage eye candy in the Jackson, Wyoming, study of Christian Burch and John Frechette, the duo behind local decor and menswear shop Mountain Dandy. The roll-top desk was a hand-me-down from Burch’s parents, while the pegboard walls were original to the ’50s house.
Decor
Get one thing straight first—you probably started a home office because you’re stuck with the corporate world and want to get away from it. Now, if you really want to do that, you have to make sure that your home office is different from your previous workplace. This can be achieved by having very creative decorations. Use cool, friendly colors for the walls and hang things like paintings and sayings to relax and motivate you.
Keep It Rolling
Photographer Victoria Pearson combined a wooden top from Ikea and a wheeled CB2 base to create her own rolling desk, which allows for an easy change of scenery or workspace rearranging at a moment’s notice.
Lighting
It’s a good ideas to have at least two types of lighting for your home office. Have bright light to help you when you are doing heavy work and have soft lighting also for times when you are tired and want to relax or do some light work on your computer. This helps create a varied environment in your home office and you won’t run out of environments to your bedroom too soon every day!
Go Bohemian
Embrace your inner free spirit and decorate your office with anything that tells a story, has sentimental value to you, or that you picked up on your travels. Add in a bold, patterned rug, color on color, and some plants. Consider yourself creative? More is more in that case. See more at Old Brand New.
Furniture
You will definitely need a really good and powerful computer desk that has room for your desktop and all your peripherals. Choose a table that hides the wires because it can be very scary. You should invest in a chair that is very comfortable and ergonomic; this is definitely not a place to skimp. Get a good wardrobe too, with at least 3-4 drawers that can help you stay organized and keep things looking neat.
If you have the space, you can also have a sofa in the room so someone can sit with you while you work or just to relax when you really want to. An in-room television may not be a great idea, but you should have a music player.
Focus on the Fireplace
Warm up an open and airy home office with a fireplace that features an earth-toned facade, like this one in a large space designed by Breegan Jane. The marble introduces sophisticated, formal style to the more casual elements but it also helps to bring the scale of the ceilings down to a more intimate, human scale.
Most importantly, make sure your home office is different from the rest of your home and also different from where you worked before. This is the temple of your special work. Take these great home office ideas and turn them into a highly productive area where the creative juices never stop flowing.
Hide the Clutter
Source : House Beautiful
Tasked with turning a tiny, white-walled bedroom in Bobby Berk’s Los Angeles home into a proper home office, creative director Brady Tolbert headed to Craigslist to find the perfect mid-century credenza. It’s not just all looks—the cabinet keeps messy papers out of sight.
BY : housebeautiful