Home Office

A home office is a big part of working at home, but what exactly is involved in setting one up? If you are one of the lucky few, then you have a spare bedrom or a garage or idealy a guest house that can be turned into a home office. Most of us do not have that luxury, however, and our home office becomes the top of the dresser, the dining room table, a coffee table in the front room... Better equipped home offices might have a desk instead of one of those. It might be built into a closet. Maybe an old wardrobe has been converted to serve as the home office and closed away when company comes by.

Whereever you have to put your home office, you need to start small and plan just what you need to accomplish with it. Can you make it fit in a small closet, or should you sonsider relocating a collection to the closet and converting the space where the display case was into desk space?

Do you need a wall to put a bullitain board or are you more in need of shelving? Do you have an inventory you have to find somewhere to store? Can it go somewhere away from your office? Say inventory in the top if the master bedroom closet and office in the breakfast nook in the kitchen?

By starting out with what you need and deciding what you would like, then comparing that to what you have and figuring out how to combine it all, you can have a home office that will serve its purpose nicely and help you build toward the future office of your dreams.