Over the last decade I’ve done my fair share of working at home and setting up home office stations. Since so many of us are finding ourselves at home working I thought I’d share my round up of home offices from our current and former house and a few take away’s on how to easily adapt any space to a work at home space.
1.) Carve out a space just for work: I have been a wedding photographer since 2010 and the majority of that time I didn’t have a dedicated office space. Most of the work I did was done from the couch or my bed. Honestly that’s fine when I’m just endlessly editing but when I needed to focus on design or blog writing I needed a work space where I could spread out and focus without distraction. Now that I author this blog I prefer to sit at the table in my office and write uninterrupted. I also find it’s easier for me to turn off ‘work’ when I’m not in my coziest spots.
2) If you have the space use it: In our current basement we installed a wall to wall built in desk. This is an awesome space for sprawling out to work (and is where my husband does all of our home admin). This was a basic install and you can see how we did it here.
3) Your work space doesn’t have to be huge: In our last house we ended up combining all of our home office things into this small secretary that lived in our sitting room. We called it a room but it was honestly more of a big nook off of the hallway (the result of multiple remodels over the years). It was small but worked very well, best of all – in my mind – we could close it up when we weren’t working and all the computer and paper mess was hidden away. You can find more details and photos of this space here.
4) Think outside of the box: When we were in need of a space to meet with clients for our photography business I realized I had an unused room in my home that was perfect for our needs. We turned our sun room into the perfect client meeting space (the room had an AC and heater along with an outside entrance). You can see the full before and after in this post. I did work out here sometimes (by folding the side of the drop leaf table up) but usually didn’t. Tho most of us aren’t looking to meet one on one right now I encourage you to brainstorm non-traditional places in your home that you could carve out for yourself.
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