
Pick lighting for looksĪn office may be a place for work, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be dull. 'I like the idea that once you're done with working, the piece and area takes on an entirely different energy.’Īnother solution if the office needs to be part of a living space or bedroom? Call on a joiner to build it in, and opt for a hinged desk surface that folds up to hide its purpose after hours, as UK-based interior designer Emma Sims-Hilditch (opens in new tab) loves to do here.Īnd while you're choosing the desk? Get a chair that's a perfect fit for you and your desk – and adjustable if more than one of you will be using it. ‘The ceremony of checking in and then also checking out goes a really long way in creating a balance, he said.

'If there's a way that you can travel to your work station – even putting that work station in a different part of the house or in a corner of an area that you don't particularly use – it goes a long way,’ he explains. 'I’m all about the versatility of pieces that allow you to work, and then close work off,' says Nate.

The couple retrofitted a cabinet in their home to accommodate a workspace, and finds value in under-utilized or overlooked nooks and crannies of a home. Add a pair of lamps or a single lamp and you’re set up for your computer workstation.’ 'A console could easily go against a wall with a dining chair at it, or a desk chair.

‘We know so many people are trying to carve out a niche or carve out a space that they can leave their work things set up overnight – so that they're not packing their things away, and so the room doesn't look terrible,' Nate Berkus (opens in new tab) and Jeremiah Brent (opens in new tab) told Homes & Gardens.
