Whether you need an office to work from home or to manage your administration, it's important to design a functional space that doesn't clutter up the living room. Here are 9 tips for creating a tailor-made office in your living room.
Like many people, you may not be lucky enough to have an extra room to fit out your office. Quite often, the only possible solution is to fit it out in the living room. Whether you need an office to work from home or to manage administration, it's important to design a functional space without cluttering up your living room. Here are 9 tips for designing a bespoke office in your living room.
To work with peace of mind, it's essential to keep your professional life separate from your personal life, which is why it's important to create a dedicated work space in your home. If you don't know where to put this space, you should know that there is always a corner, however small, to set up an office. The main thing is to create a pleasant place that will make you want to work.
You have several choices. You can either make it visible and make it the centrepiece of your living room or, on the contrary, make it invisible, hidden away in a piece of furniture.
Storage will ensure you don't waste time during your day. You don't have to get up every quarter of an hour to fetch a particular document or object. Your office needs to be functional and organised so that you have everything within easy reach.
Before creating a personalised office, you need to think about your office and the storage you need beforehand so that you can store everything optimally.
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Even in small interiors, we have little nooks and crannies that we don't know what to do with. If this is the case for you, why not take advantage of it to set up your office there? It could be an under-slope space, a simple corner, under a staircase, in a staircase unit, or even a recess,any nook and cranny is good to take. The key is to bear in mind that you'll need enough space to stand up and to move your chair back.
A desk isn't always aesthetically pleasing, it can often turn out to be a mess. Once the working day is over, you don't necessarily want to put everything away so that it doesn't stand out in the room. If you want your desk to be as discreet as possible, or even invisible, hiding it in a piece of furniture is ideal. There are then several solutions available to you:
Don't feel like having to tidy up your desk every evening or camouflage it after every day's work is done? You can choose to leave the desk visible whileblending it into the room's decor. It becomes almost invisible, part of the decor. To do this, play with the continuity of a piece of furniture, a bookcase for example. Design your bespoke desk in the middle of a bookcase.
You don't want your desk to be visible, but you don't want to hide it in an imposing piece of furniture either. You can then opt tohide it behind another piece of furniture. For example, position the desk behind the sofa like a console or behind a chest of drawers. You'll combine the practical side with the aesthetic side.
Small spaces don't always allow you to install a large piece of furniture to conceal a desk. Quite often, flats only contain a lounge area. In this case, design a TV cabinet 2 in 1 by extending it to create an office space and thus save space.
And why not make your desk the central feature of your living room. Use your desk as a room divider. Put it in the middle of the living room, and incorporate eye-catching decoration.
With these 9 tips, you're now ready to design a bespoke office in your living room. You can now design your desk on our furniture configurator.
