Home Office Planning

For a bigger office option, consider revising the way you are using your living room, frequently an unused area designated for holidays or formal occasions, if that. Creating more of a “library” means you can have an office that you will really enjoy using, often in one of the nicest rooms of the house. If you are in a historic property, as our office is, you will actually be using the space more as it was originally intended- a study, or gentleman’s parlor, for business.

Home offices are the fastest growing remodeling projects today, and Karen Carpino of Carpino Design designs lots of them.  How Karen plans an office for her customers: 'The first thing we determine is the equipment (fax, computer, printer, copier, etc.) needed for the work they will be doing.  Next, we decide the furnishings (desk, file storage, bookshelves, lighting) needed.  Using that information, along with the client's budget, I determine the  amount of space that is required and where in the home to best locate the business operation.  A home office can be set up in a storage closet, guest bedroom, under a staircase, above a garage, and other possibilities'.