Home Offices

The New York Times recently had an article about home offices. Accordign to this piece 7 in 10 Americans have offices or workstations in their homes and 28 million Americans work from their home at least part time. So now there are furiture companies designing to fit home offices, interior decorators specializing in them and lots of built ins that people have made for them.

When I started out in organzing there were very few hoome offices, practically no furniture or cabinets meant for the home and people had all kinds of makeshift arrangements for themselves.

A couple of things to keep in mind when furnishing or planning a home office:

*Get furniture that is meant for a home office. Forget using the desk you've had since 8th grade. It doesn't work for today's computer equipment or anything else. Be willing to spend something to get some furniture that works for your space.

*Get a good and comfortable chair. If your'e going to be sitting for long epriods of time be comfortable.

*Have decent lighting. Whether it's lamps or ceiling lighting, get what you need. Otherwise you'll be squinting all the time.

*Measure and see what fit in your space before you buy.