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Home Office Design: Comfort Without Cost
By David Faulkner
If your home business is your primary source of income, you are no doubt spending a great many hours each day in the confines of your home office. And if you’ve been feeling less and less creative each time you open the office door in the morning, it might be time for a home office design makeover.
You don’t have to go whole-hog to give your home office design a new look; there are a few small things you can do to make your home office feel less like a boring workplace and more like a fun environment in which you can get big things accomplished.
Let Mother Nature Do Some Decorating
If you’re someone who counts every minute which you have to spend indoors as a minute to regret, bring the outdoors into your home office design. If you have windows, keep the blinds up or the curtains open; if you don’t, treat yourself to some wall posters of Mother Nature’s glories.
Fresh flowers can add fragrance and color to your home office design; green plants will not only add graceful elegance; they’ll pump brain invigorating oxygen into the air. A small tabletop-or-shelf-sized fountain can offer soothing sounds of cascading water.
Keep The Distractions
Out.
Your home office design will ideally be situated so that you are not tempted by whatever activities are taking place elsewhere in the house. The sounds of the television or the smell of brownies wafting in from the kitchen can be enough to break the strongest concentration, so put your home office where nothing enticing will get in. You can always record the television shows for later viewing, and the brownies are not the best food choice for someone who spends a lot of time in front of a computer screen anyway.
Leave Space To Move
If you have the space to incorporate it into your home office design, reserve a spot in your office where you can get up and really stretch from time to time. Isometric stretching bands are great for getting tense, tired muscles to relax, and they fit on a shelf when you aren’t using them.
One final tip on home office design
: if you are just starting your home business, don’t let your enthusiasm get the better of your judgment. Spending serious money on a professional decorator, plush carpeting, antique accents and state-of-the-art lighting should wait until your business has the client base to support them.
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