Home Office Design

If you are planning to setup a Home office, then these guidelines will save your time and money from the planning stage itself. A home office is primarily has two kinds of setups.

1) Office in an entirely new room in a home

2) A small part of the room converted into a home office.

Both these types have their own advantages and disadvantages. Before you dive into planning and setting up a home office it would be nice to first find out what exactly are you looking for from your office space.

The actual plan of the office space largely depends upon the kind of business you are in. Many types of businesses can be run today from home. But you must first analyze the amount of space required to run a business from home.

You can create a sort of FAQ for yourself to answer some basic questions like following.

1) How many people will accompany you in your office?

2) What is the expected growth of your business as far as revenue generation and hence number of employees is concerned?

3) Does your business involves frequent meeting with clients or presentations, just like in a seminar hall.

4) Does your business involve physical inventory of products?

5) Does your business involve relationships with foreign clients?

6) How many hours per day do you work normally?

7) How many kids do you have?

If you find the answers to these and similar questions you will find that they directly affect the location of your office in your home. For example if the answer to question number 5 above is yes,( about foreign clients), then are you going to work overnight to get along with the communication required with clients in other countries. Then how will this affect the privacy of other family members.

Another point is if your kids are small, how will you protect your office stationery and other things such a computers and other documents away from their reach. You know, kids like to learn new things and a home office is a nice place to explore their curiosity. In this case are you going to use a half partition or other methods to segregate the office space from rest of the home.

The major aspect in bringing your office in your home is you are sacrificing the privacy of other home members. That's why all efforts in home office design should be to achieve a space that will provide enough motivation to you as well as doesn't disturb the homely comforts.