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Ha, I actually just did the same thing with a very awkward nook in my bedroom last month! It is working out incredibly well so far!

I'm all about maximizing the nook.

That one could almost have a door attached and be used as a pantry.

Or a curtain, to be used as a pantry, or a cozy chair and a little table (or shelf!) for a cup of tea. But this is really nice... I'm always happy when I can find furniture that fits a space just right. Likewise, finding a piece of wall art for a narrow space.

Nooks too small for human habitation can hold pet beds.

That is a cute nook, but just because it has a table, shelves and a chair does not make it a "home office". It's a decorator nook!

lovely use of the space.

i want to do this! have the perfect little nook. how do you install floating shelves like this that can hold any amount of weight? (bonus points if said installation method works on a plaster back wall, and drywall side walls...)

the rough little desk DOES it

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It's cute, but no one does any work there. I think I'd rather have shelves to the floor, and work near the windows.

"Instead of using a bulky desk with all the extras (drawers, side units, etc.);"

You know, the functional storage parts of a normal office.

"this home office utilizes its high ceilings to its advantage. By installing floating shelves up the wall, this office expands its storage capacity."...

...to store what essentially looks like junk you don't need.

I mean, it's adorable and decorative, but the capacity of which you feature in your prose is for non-essential, non-office thingamabobs. Where's the stuff that's office-y? Is this more of a craft nook, are those crafts in progress? Makes more sense. Is it made of unfinished lumber? Kind of yucky. Rough-built workshop yucky, belongs in a garage or basement. If it's all for crafts, it makes more sense than calling it a home office, which also explains not needing the "bulky lower items" like drawers and files. Since I see the top is full of objects that are neither computer nor paper, I'll assume they are working on something, maybe several things, rather than they've put in a rough wooden place to accumulate things on surfaces.

To weckster: people who work out of their home need more of the trappings of a real office than people who just pay their bills and organize their home files. "Home office" is just the new term for desk.

However, every time I see a nook or closet put to use like this, I wish I had such an awkward yet adequately sized piece of apartment to "maximize" my space. But for instance, I wouldn't want 3.5 feet of this wall I'm beside to be 18 inches further into the room to get a foot and a half deep nook on the other half of this length of wall, don't be absurd.