Practical home office design for real homes. Thoughtful layouts, lighting, storage and original room concepts for spaces that work.
The clocks went back in the UK on Sunday, and the US and Canada follow on 1 November. It is dark by teatime now. The heating is coming on properly, and any house with a gap under the front door is about to make that gap known. Forecasts for heating costs this …
A desk can look perfectly placed at ten in the morning and become uncomfortable at four in the afternoon. The sun moves across the screen, …
Closing a laptop is quick. Returning a working desk to the rest of the home can take considerably longer. The mouse needs somewhere to go, …
A basement room is often the one space in a house that nobody else wants, which makes it an obvious candidate for an office. It is quiet, …
In many homes, the desk does a second shift. A parent works there until mid-afternoon, then a child arrives home with a backpack and a …
A closet with the doors taken off, or a shallow alcove beside a chimney breast, is one of the most tempting places to put a desk. It is …
Some homes have no spare room, no alcove and no corner of the living room to give up, but they do have a landing that is wider than it needs …
Below about 20 square metres, a studio stops being a small apartment and becomes a single room that has to do everything. There is space for …
Closing the laptop does surprisingly little to hide an office. The monitor stays where it was, yesterday’s notes sit beside it and the chair …
A guest room office is usually designed on the three hundred or so days a year when nobody is staying. The desk gets the good wall, the bed …
