Covid-19 Working From Home - Office Space

With Covid-19 making a huge impact on our lives. Home working is becoming necessary and most probably will be here to stay for many of us. As the novelty of working from the dinning table wears off and the reality of a proper work environment becomes more obvious it might be time to start looking for a space to carve out your home office or working space.

A whole room to transform into a home office is of course the best option and will lend its self to a great efficient space where even a professional meeting can take place. Once stepping through the door you will be at work and in the right head space.

Unfortunately many of us cant give such a large area to a home office, this is where the fun of bespoke furniture really starts. Starting with a blank slat we can design clever hidden desk solutions, filling cabinets and work stations. The idea here is to hide what is needed in plain site and integrate other storage for the home into the design. 

We have had other clients that just need a simple desk to work from, but need a certain size or more commonly something to work with there current furniture. We often include clever cable management and shallow drawers to store pencils and other bits needed day to day.

Here are several examples of our office designs.

The first is in a small nook in the clients living room, we used the same Oak and Wenge accents as the other furniture in the lounge to help the room flow nicely.  Dimensions of the old furniture were taken to match the new furniture perfectly. As the client is quite short we were able to use the space under the desk to sneak in some extra shelving, as  leg room was not an issue, this a great example of how the extra investment in bespoke furniture really comes into play.

We have to other jobs waiting to be made and currently delayed due to the current situation!

The first is a whole room home office.  With units running the length of both walls, storage has been maximised. In the brief a major point was to hide the safe and drawers for paper work, we have extra deep, shallow drawers which can each take 4 A4 sheets laying flat! The safe is hidden behind a door. Lighting will help soften the large units whilst eliminating the room. The worktops are made of Richlight, a material made of recycled compressed paper, extremely hard wearing and in the maroon we plan to use has a leather look and feel. We have also hidden a waste paper bin and pull out shredder tray on the desk side

This dresser type unit is a great example of integrating a desk into a bespoke furniture. As a returning customer that knows are work well we were given a very small brief. The clients have a beautiful arts and crafts style house and a large main desk in the room already, as we don’t like to try to match old furniture,  as part of its beauty is patina picked up over time, so we have taken some small moulding and design references and expanded upon that, to contrast the cherry desk we will be spraying the unit an off white.