What does “home office” mean to you? How you decorate, equip and where you locate this room depends on what purposes you want it to serve. Here are examples of different ways “home offices” can function. Which one suits your situation best?
– small room off the kitchen equipped with a computer, bookshelves and work counters is a place for you to maintain household accounts and for your children to do their homework. Adding a slide-open pocket door for privacy and noise control will take up a minimum amount of space.
– A third or fourth bedroom occupied by your oldest child can be converted into an office after the child is grown and leaves home. This room can serve as a place to do work brought home occasionally from the corporate office, as well as to undertake projects from volunteer or civic organizations, hobbies and other interests.
– A work-at-home space used daily or several times a week as a functioning office is the most complex and involves the most careful planning for phone lines and electrical outlets, and to insure privacy and minimal distractions. Continue reading