The essential guide to decorating your home office

Whether you work in a quirky corner or dedicated study, we’ve got all sorts of smart solutions that’ll help you transform your office hours...

Dual-purpose rooms

Whether it’s a desk tucked away in a quiet bedroom, a laptop set up in the kitchen or a work station in a living room, this type of home office needs to integrate seamlessly into its surroundings.


Take a leaf out of chef and full-time mum Sophie Conran’s book – she has an open-plan living space, which also serves as an office. A long table provides plenty of desk space, and a bank of unobtrusive Vitsoe shelving ensures her reference library of books and magazines are all to hand, as well as all her filing. When clients visit the house, the oversized dining table also doubles up as somewhere to hold meetings.

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