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All dressed up: a home office with function built in

When your home office is in a spare bedroom, modular furniture is the ideal way to keep the room flexible, especially if you decide to use the space for something else. When you design a room in your home to be used only as a home office, built-ins are a good choice.
This home office is [...]

All dressed up: wild about business

The best words to describe the corporate headquarters for FamZoo are fun, functional and fabulous. This former guest bedroom under the stairs reflects owner Bill Dwight’s sense of play and his excitement for his online business.
Between the orange walls (Benjamin Moore Soft Glow) and paw prints climbing up the walls and across the ceiling, this [...]

What to watch out for when setting up a home office

When you’re setting up your home office, choosing the right furnishings and equipment can help you avoid a few common problems including:

Work surfaces that are the wrong size. A desk or workspace that’s too narrow, too deep, too tall or too short can affect your productivity. Instead of using that space as a place [...]

Working naked pays off: contest winner announced

Working naked pays off in so many ways: freedom from cubicle hell, flexible hours and the ability to enter home office contests. The winner of our “Where Do You Work Naked?” contest, Laura Wilson, is a graphic designer who runs her business, Fit to Print, from where else but her home office. (A note to [...]

How to find the right place for your home office

In the almost twenty years I’ve been working from home, I’ve had nine home offices. Moving my home office so many times gave me insight into the benefits and disadvantages of using certain rooms to work. The one room I’ve never used – and won’t use – as a home office is a bedroom [...]