Home office desks are difficult to find. Often, space in the home is limited and the home office usually occupies a remote corner of an unused room. If you are anything like me, you spend the most amount of time in your home office. This area usually houses a computer and printer at the minimum. If you add a paper shredder, phone, file cabinet, modem, office supplies, chargers, external drives and a myriad of other productivity items – then you will quickly run out of space.
This is why home office desks pose such a challenge. First, they need to be small enough to fit in the home. Furniture that was made for large offices can overpower a house – in fact, those type of desks may not even fit through the front door. But an oversized desk will definitely allow the most working space.
The second challenge is finding home office desks that blend well with a home’s decor. Desks that were made for offices usually have an industrial type of feel. On the other hand, desks that are decorative are usually impractical. They may look nice but they fill up fast and don’t have spacious drawers and sufficient surface to hold all the electronic stuff that a home office needs.
Even desks for children’s rooms suffer from the same issues.
My approach to the space problem surrounding home office desks has been a bit of a patchwork solution. Using a system of tables, shelves, portable drawers and file cabinets, my home office space is constantly evolving. Design continues to be an issue as I try to find things for my home office desk space that fits well with my homes decor but is still very useful.
As I find practical items for home office desks I will share them with you and also share my ideas on how to create a useful, efficient and productive workspace. The goal of course, is to create a space that is so efficient that you will finish all that paperwork and computer work so quickly that you won’t need to spend a lot of time in your home office but rather you will be looking for things to do to keep you in a home office space that you love.
