With all the talk of home offices and getting organized we've been searching for some inspiration for our own home office (which at best will be a nook in either the living room or bedroom but a big step up from using the main dining room table and having to pack up every night). We've rounded up inspiring images as well as some practical examples to get a style tray together for our very own home office:
Swiss Miss's envy inducing bedroom office
We would condense this one into the shelves with the desk underneath.
This image from Crate and Barrel
We like how this one puts shelves right over a frosted window, creating storage in an unlikely place.
West Elm's Jay Hutch Desk is nice and compact
If we could we'd love to combine the home office with the living room entertainment system, replacing a flat screen with a projector.
Ikea Painted Corner Office via Domino
Of course most of these offices are out of reach for us, but some of the stacked or corner versions are great jumping off points. And what we take away from the larger offices is: put in enough storage in order to have a cleaned off workspace, simple floating shelves with a couple of objects look interesting but not too cluttered and that we love how warm the wood walls are. We can probably make a version of that using cork instead of wood. Either way, having a permanent place to store what we're working on will be a big improvement on our up-until-now nomadic work life.
For more home office inspiration, check out tips for making a small office seem big, a small space home office and katy's home office.
If not marked, images are from houzz.com.
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Nobodyworkshere.com I love these but so unrealistic for someone like me that has a home office and business. I have great furniture, fireplace, nice window with Eastern exposure, a MAC but no way can it look like these photos.
I would like AT to post real home offices, where someone has lots of materials and needs to multi task.
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Great pics, really nice for sparking cool ideas to inject in our own spaces.
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I was sad to find nothing at Nobodyworkshere.com :(
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I don't have an office, just a laptop on a tray at the moment, but I do have a work-in-progress studio space.
I haven't cleaned it in a week or so, so it's kind of a cluttered mess, but I'll post it anyway, just for fun.
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The alcove presently occupied by the Ugly TV Stand will, come spring, house a built-in desk, light table, and storage.
I love a lot of these solutions, and a comfortable work environment at home makes it ever so much easier to get things done. I know I got a lot less work accomplished when I was using the chest freezer as a drafting table and my bedroom closet as a supply cupboard.
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Wow, I love the Crate and Barrel one and most of the white ones. I also love that home office photo with the projector screen.
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Ah, Barbarella, my pritty-pritty!
I love the projecting directly onto a wall. That's the way I'll be going here soon.
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Putting a laptop (without its power cord!) on a table doesn't make a space an office! I wish there was a post that featured photos of real offices, with phones, printers, and all the other stuff that can't be tucked out of sight.
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I like the double-headed black lamp in the second picture. Anyone know what it is?
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why are the thumbnails linked to nowhere? you guys just can't figure out how to display photos, can you?
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Lorisf,
I am so with you. Real work spaces are usually busy and have all the needed tools and accessories to make working easy and sometimes there is a bit of clutter or at least signs of a live real human doing things. No waste basket, come on, let's get real here. Were do you put your little pieces of paper with notes and reminders? Oh, sorry I forgot, you highfalutin types swallow the precious information.
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No need to lash out. It makes you look like you're playing victim.
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where is the desk in the first picture from? the one with the orange drawer?
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I love those green chairs. Can anyone identify them? The green chairs in the picture with the movie projection of Barbarella?
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Green Chairs are Eames Aluminum Softpad chairs. Available at DWR and many other places.
Click212 - never go into advertising. You dont inspire or motivate people by providing the average - you do it by providing the ideal: something to strive for, to attain. If we all wanted to look at a 'real' desk we would look at our own, which is just about as you described it. And thats depressing, not inspiring.
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heres my home office/study in my bedroom. although the design and organization is inspired by ikea, none of these furnitures are from ikea. also, i dont have mac which is what i usually find in all home office pics here in AT
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