Choosing the right home office desk whether you’re working from home full time and running a business, working flexible time from the office, getting started with a part time business or just need a quite study and home admin area to work in the decisions you make when choosing your desk will impact on how comfortable and effective your home work space will be.
Getting things right from the offset is important and if you haven’t already we would suggest you also read our article on setting up your home office.
If it dominates the room without appearing to fit effortlessly into your home environment then you have a disaster that’s already happened and the whole work at home experience goes straight down the pan!
The very first consideration apart from budget of course is the available space that you have and then choosing a desk for your home office that will accommodate your working style, the number of hours a day you’ll spend at your desk and or course it has to fit with your existing décor and color scheme.
If it dominates the room without appearing to fit effortlessly into your home environment then you have a disaster that’s already happened and the whole work at home experience goes straight down the pan!
Cheap Home Office Desk Or Executive Style Desk?
You’ll find a desk to match your budget from a sub $100 dorm or corner desk to $2000 to $3000 for a full matching high end home office furniture collection. The important thing to do when setting your budget is making sure you’re spending enough to get the right desk for the job.
If you’re going to be working from home full time, or at least a couple of days a week then you want to ensure that the time you spend at your desk is comfortable and productive and above all enjoyable. There is nothing more annoying than having files, notes and paper work falling all over the floor because you can’t organize it with enough room on top of your desk. And the last thing you need is not have enough space for your laptop computer or your iPad, or the worse possible scenario; it gets knocked off and damaged.
So the first thing to do is make sure that your budget actually matches what you need to achieve with your home office desk and work area.
Nothing will spoil your creativity and work day more than feeling cramped and uncomfortable.
Available Space For Your Home Office.
[fsbProduct asin=’B001HFB6MS’ align=’right’]So now we’ve set a budget, now we need to decide how much space we have. Do we have to find space in an existing living or sleeping area or can you set a dedicated room to one side? A spare empty bedroom or indeed an underutilized study, den or even basement area if it’s warm and damp free will do the trick. We have seen successful home work areas created in under stair spaces, mezzanines, entrance halls and spare bedrooms.
Find your area, make sure it’s conducive to working efficiently and is practical, and you have enough light and space to make sure you don’t feel cramped and have that ‘closed in a cell’ feeling. Nothing will spoil your creativity and work day more than feeling cramped and uncomfortable.
Now all you have to do is measure up and lets start to chose a desk style.
Is contemporary and modern more to your taste? Maybe a white desk or the clean spacious lines of a glass top desk?
Which Home Office Desk style is best for your current décor?
If you are so limited on space that you do have to squeeze yourself into a corner then there are plenty of stylish and space saving corner computer desks available. If your fitting out and furnishing a dedicated study or den room as a home office and like the traditional executive look then you’ll love the Coaster Home Office Executive Desk and matching traditional file cabinet and bookcase. Providing you have the space of course!
Is contemporary and modern more to your taste? Maybe a white desk or the clean spacious lines of a glass top desk?
Choose carefully because the environment that you work in at home can have a remarkable effect on how much you get done and is absolutely vital to the work from home equation, how creative you are and how much you just plain enjoy yourself.
We have discussed being able to devote an existing room into a fully self contained office work space, however, when your fitting your working time in with your living space the whole experience needs to be seamless and at the very least, as unobtrusive as possible. That means plenty of storage to tidy away, surface areas that can double up as places to lay out snacks, drinks and stemware when you’re entertaining, and of course it’s just plain and simply got to look good with your living or sleeping space layout and be a great fit with your tastes and décor.
Home Office Entertainment?
Let’s just give this some thought because it’s an area that affects more of us every day as we rely on our laptops and smart devices to deliver our streaming media content instead of watching the TV in the traditional sense of the word.
If your ‘desk’ in the day turns into a media or entertainment area at night then it’s something else that has to be taken into consideration from a comfort and relaxation standpoint.
If you’ve cut the cable and your streaming all your content directly to a smart TV then maybe you will want to consider how this fits in and if your anything like us, we catch up with most of our technical and marketing webinar content ‘after office hours’, so again, a work from home office space needs to be flexible and able to fully integrate into your existing lifestyle.
It’s been apparent to many home based entrepreneurs for a long time that it’s not a decision that can be taken lightly and will affect how successful you are working from home, so let’s do a quick checklist.
The Home Office Desk Summary
[fsbProduct asin=’B001DDII3E’ align=’right’]So choosing the right home office desk for your needs, taking into account where it will be situated, in its own separate room or integrated within your existing living space will have a significant impact on what and more importantly why you choose the desk that you do.
It’s been apparent to many home based entrepreneurs for a long time that it’s not a decision that can be taken lightly and will affect how successful you are working from home, so let’s do a quick checklist.
- Choose your home office space wisely. Feng Shui works. If it ‘feels’ right, it is.
- Measure up, size matters!
- Match your desk choice to your existing furnishings, home décor and personal tastes
- Think forward and think flexible. Will your desk fit your growing business or work commitments? Work by day, entertainment by night?
If we can give you one last solid piece of advice when choosing your new home office desk its give it careful thought, think long term because you’re going to be spending a lot of time working and creating there so let’s go enjoy building your new business or whatever work project your creating!