With more people regularly working from home, home offices are getting more popular.
Organising them well can help you be more comfortable and productive.
Read on for our top 5 tips on how to maximise your home office space.
1. Utilise the storage space
Shelves and filing cabinets enable you to make use of vertical space.
And don’t forget to utilise drawers, deskside tables, and bookcases.
2. Remove distractions
Sometimes proximity, not storage, is the issue.
Keeping only work-related possessions in your home office reduces clutter and distractions.
If you have room elsewhere at home, place non-work-related objects there.
For example, keeping your personal laptop elsewhere puts it out of mind. This reduces the chances you’ll waste time on it.
3. Position your furniture well
Your home office feels messy and disorganised if your furniture is in the wrong places. It can limit your floor space and create a claustrophobic effect.
To fix this, consider how to best position your furniture. This might involve throwing out items you don’t need.
Desks will ideally be pushed up against the wall, rather than sitting in the middle of the room.
This makes the room feel bigger. And if there’s a wall with a window in it, positioning your desk there can still give you a good view.
You can even use software to help you plan the positioning of existing rooms.
4.Chose Ergonomic furniture
Using high quality ergonomic furniture protects your health.
An uncomfortable or ill-sized chair and desk might lead your posture to deteriorate. In the long run, this will reduce your efficiency.
5. Add inspiration
Adding a framed inspirational painting, photograph, or quote adds a personal touch.
There is a lot to choose from. You could choose your favourite painting, album cover, or a photograph of a landscape
The essayist Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1593) had inspirational quotes all carved in his library. Altogether there were 52, examples include:
- “To not think at all is the softest life,Because not thinking is the most painless evil.” (Sophocles)
- “If any man thinks he knows anything, he knows nothing.” (The Bible)
- “Nothing is more beautiful than being just, but nothing is more pleasant than being healthy.” (Theognis)
- “The only certainty is that nothing is certain, and that nothing is less noble or more proud than man.” (Pliny).
Remember that colleagues or clients may notice what you choose on calls. So, choosing something that relatively formal is preferable. It could even be something that elicits conversations.
