My Dream Home Office Looks Like This

After 17 years running my home-based business out of a cramped spare bedroom, I now have the luxury of a 500 square foot loft home office. Best of all, it’s at home but not in my house! My new office is in the loft area above the separate garage. To get there, I walk out the front door of my house, cross the cobblestone terrace and go up the stairs to my home office hideaway. Ahhh…

I’ve been in my “new” dream home office for three years now and the novelty still hasn’t worn off. I love the space, the windows looking out into the forest, and the warm fir floors.
Another thing I like is the wall of closets on the right. I have all my supplies and filing cabinets behind those white bifold doors, which helps to keep my working area free from clutter.
The part of the office that you can’t see is the sitting area. I’ve got a cozy area with a sofa, area rug, coffee table, bookshelves and good lighting for when I want to read or meet with clients. You can’t beat the sofa for those long conference calls either!
Do you think I have enough desk space? Yeah, maybe I did overdo it…the result of being cramped for space in my former home office. The desktop is blue laminate with bevelled fir edging. Altogether I have 23 feet of desk with three work stations.
The desk was custom made by a local cabinet company. The drawer units are stock cabinets, which act as pedestals to hold up the expanses of desktop.
As you can see, I still haven’t found a good solution for the tangle of cables under my desk. And if you think that my home office is normally as neat as it appears in the photo above, well all I can say is HA!

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