Home Office Ideas to Boost Your Productivity
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Working from home is not always the most productive place to get things done. It can be easy to end up 'working' on the couch in front of the TV or while cooking up a storm in the kitchen. What you need is a beautiful home office that will make you want to get off the couch and get stuff done. Check out these inspiring (and sometimes unusual) home office ideas and find a way to crack up your productivity:
Outdoor Office Area
The home office is quickly becoming a must-have as more and more people choose to work from home - and more employers encourage it. On the season 1 episode of Take It Outside, designer Kelly Deck worked with freelance journalist Susie Wall. She had a gorgeous, calm office space indoors to work on her various assignments, but, living in Vancouver, she wanted to stretch her office outdoors.
Kelly took inspiration from the indoor office, which had a soothing, Asian-influenced vibe. The driftwood and cream-coloured bowl on the desk are from the indoor office and are two of Susie's favourite things. She also had a small water feature indoors as she find the sound of running water relaxing under stress, so Kelly added a Buddha-themed water feature at the back. The white boards hanging on the fence are magnetic so papers can be attached and won't blow away.
Office Sandpit
Massachusetts-based art assistant Justin Kemp loves his work so much that he decided to turn his office into a beach. 30-year-old Justin installed a wooden box in the middle of his living room, lined the bottom with plastic, and filled it with sand, calling his work place upgrade ‘Surfing With the Sand Between My Toes’. “The sand is relaxing, but for me, its more a symbol of my permanent vacation. It’s the design of a lifestyle where ‘work’ becomes so satisfying that vacation and retirement become undesirable. It’s a permanent state of chill,” explains Justin. Work has never looked so tempting!
Office POD
An OfficePOD provides a working environment that is separate to home life. The hassle free OfficePOD service deals with everything from site survey and installation through to customer services and POD relocation in the case of moving house or employer.
Portable Balcony Office
If you hardly utilize your balcony and would like to use it as a change of environment when working, eating, reading or finding inspiration, Berlin-based designer Michael Hilgers created an accessory that could give you a different view from your apartment. Called ‘BalKonzept’, the balcony table—made from weatherproof and recyclable polyethylene—rests on your railing and provides you with an open, flat surface to eat, read or work. Users can easily place their laptop, books, plates and cups on the table. When not in use, it can serve as a tray, a planter, and even a ‘wine chiller’ for when the weather is cold outside.
Home Office Net Bed
They say a 20 minute power nap is great for creativity. What better place to power nap than in a giant, comfortable net? Located inside an actual office, this bed was designed to look like a giant net (or spiderweb) overlooking the bottom floor.
Recycled Bus Home Office
One of the benefits of working from home is missing the public transport commute -- and the associated smell of unwashed armpits. But if you find yourself missing the nostalgia of that rattling old bus, perhaps you could carve up a decommissioned one and create a home office inside it!
Corner Window Office
Always wanted a corner office? Now you can have one at home. By avoiding the corner post your home office view really wraps around, immersing you in the panorama. It's also great for your eyes to have a window that you can look through and change your focus for mini optical breaks.
Rustic Home Office
With some distressed timber, and an eclectic array of photographs, books and fluffy green plants, you too can acheive this modern rustic look in your home office.
Eclectic Home Offic
Or perhaps you're more the excecltic type? No worries, just through together all the beautiful object you've collected over the years to get an eclectic look like this.
Tiny Home Office in a Cupboard
Even a disused cupboard or storage underneath the stairs can become a pretty functional tiny office.
Industrial Home Office
If you love the industrial look, this style of office will be perfect for you. A big steel and timber desk, exposed bulbs and the modern classic Navy Chair-inspired metal chairs combine to create the perfect isdustrial chic home office.
Built-in Home Office Corner Unit
Make the most of a corner space by building in a fuctional corner home office unit. This example has plenty of storage both open and concealed -- the best of both worlds.
Minimalist Home Office
Or if you're more of a minimalist, perhaps this office is more your style? Clean lines and all of that clutter hidden away. The perfect environment to get a cracking day of work done.
Home Office Nook
Even small nooks beside brick fireplaces or practically any underutelized space can be turned into a beautiful home office with a little imagination.
Home Office Behind a Curtain
Like this example, tucked away neatly behind a curtain.
Bright Home Office
Best not forget a splash of colour in the home office to get your creative juices flowing.
Shabby Chic Home Office
If you can be productive while you're surrounded by pictures, notes, vintage finds and last Christmas's wrapping paper, power to you. A shabby chic home office design might be right up your ally.
Light Home Office
A decent sized window covered in an obscure fabric keeps this home office feeling light and bright without that annoying ray of light striking the computer screen.
Scandinavian-Style Home Office
Scandinavians have a good, utilitarian but stylish approach to design. That philosophy fits perfectly with the home office -- a place you want to make you feel good, but not destract from the task at hand.
Colourful Home Office
There is no (home office) problem that a bit of colour can't fix.
Dark and Moody Home Office
Or, you could try an anti-colour room. I've got to admit, this brooding black home office is very charming.
Simple Neutral Home Office
For those who love a neutral pallete. This home office avoids the stark white on white look, injecting plenty of warmth thanks to that beautiful timber desk.
Home Office Floating Desk
Perfect for small spaces this floating home office desk makes the room feel bigger because you can see the floor continue through.
Home Office Recycled Object Desk
How beautiful is this home office desk made entirely of recycled timbers? I sense a DIY project coming on...
Floral Home Office
If you'd like a bit of girly florals to brighten up your day and awake your senses, this floral wallpaper combined with a floral lampshade might be just the thing for your home office.
Industrial Chic Home Office
Antother take on the industrial chic loook. This combines blues, greys and mirrors with a beutiful vintage desk for a unique home office design.
Simple Vintage Home Office
A splash of green and some vintage furniture make this home office a real winner.
Seaside Chic Home Office
Even if your house is nowhere near the sea, you can bring a sense of its care-free vibe to your home office without constructing a sandput under your desk. Simply combine white or limewashed objects with beach coloured drift wood to steal this look.
Exposed Brick Home Office
Exposed brick looks great anywhere, but it's an especially great creaticity booting material to use in the home office.
Tonal Home Office
For the easiest interior decorating in the home office, chose a colour and make sure eveything else is either a neutral or a variation of that tone, just like this red tinged home office.
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About the Author
Brodie Norris runs Lunchbox Architect, a website featuring one exceptional, architect-designed family home every weekday. Recently we featured this sculptural home office pavilion for the ultimate productivity space. Check out what's in the lunchbox today!
Which is your favourite home office? Have a home office project of your own you'd like to show off? Let us know in the comments.
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