I prefer a desk facing the door, or outwards, rather than the wall. I work from home and people are always coming into my office to talk to me. It is easier when I am facing them. I dislike corner desks because you are looking at a wall. What do you need for your office, really? A simple desk, a good chair, maybe a bookshelf or filing cabinet. I would put the desk in front of the window, facing out, with a bookshelf to the left on one of those walls.

Look into L shaped computer desks. I used one in a small home office once and it worked well. It will give you nice surface area for your computer on one end and all your paperwork on the other. Some come with drawers and/or filing cabinets built in, and others have additional units that match the desk that will slide underneath.

What kind of office do you need? To work from/at home? Do you use a computer almost exclusively, or do you need to lay visuals out on a surface? Do you do much reading, or phone work? Video meetings?

And how do YOU like to work? I like open space, so I need a table with maybe a pencil drawer, in the middle of a room, maybe with an L if I'm combining paper and computer work. DH likes to work in a carrel, with an open hutch above, or in a corner. I like the curtains open, he likes them closed. I like to see what else is going on, I need noise. He needs it isolated and quiet.

So what do YOU need?

Ditto what bpathome said. Home offices have different uses in different homes. My DH and I both work at home, we have two home offices. They are quite different because of the types of work we do, as well as our work styles.

My last two offices at work weren't any larger than 9x9, and I had L-shaped desks that I oriented so that I was facing the door (with the other leg of the L extending backward away from the door). It keeps people from walking up behind you when you are working. It's a bit of a power orientation--worker bees face away from the door because they are focused on their own work; managers face the door because there's an expectation that people will come to them. Even if you aren't expecting visitors to your office, I think there's something psychological to setting it up that way.

Can you post a floor plan? I can't tell where things are or what the closet is like.

Sometimes decisions are made for us. I think that is the case here.

For optimal use, I think you are right to go with a corner desk. Again, like others have suggested, it all depends on how much desk space you need. Or, can you use a small table which can be pulled out into the room and you can sit behind it facing out?

My DD's room became my home office. When it was hers, she had a corner desk, facing the wall. Now I have a desk facing the window. The door is behind me and to the left.

Neither set up bothers me.

I tried googling how you can correct your situation with feng shui but all thatches up is why you shouldn't not how you can correct it. I have heard of mirrors being used, but that didn't come up for your situation.

A floor plan would definitely help.

My office is more like 11x11 and I have both a desk and computer table that face the wall. I live alone and don't have to deal with people walking in behind me. I have a window in between and can look outside when sitting at either station. Since your room is small, you wouldn't have to eat up space for your chair when you're not at your desk, i.e., the chair can be shoved up against the desk. If you're facing the door, you always have that aisle behind the desk and have to walk around your desk to sit down.

We have a 9x7 office- we stretched a 2 boards across 3 kitchen cabinets (storage!) along the back wall (opposite door), and stained/finished them. This gave us two large work areas, the shelving attached to the wall above for other items.

these pictures are from 10 years ago when I was cemetery sexton. I understand your wanting to face the door and agree an L shaped desk out from the window with L part under the window would be a nice set up.

Here is how I did my closet. The commode made for nice storage for office supplies. I needed lots of paper. I built shelves into the ends of the closet behind the curtains to hold the cemetery books and maps rolled up. When I needed to work on the 4 foot long 2 foot tall maps I had a 6 foot long fold out table I used and I did keep it in another room and brought it to my office space. I used the fold out table for many things. Such as sewing and my mosaic work table at times.

My desk set up was smaller because I mostly did the cemetery books on the laptop computer. It barely shows to the right of the desk is an old over the bed tray thing they used in hospitals. I still use it today at my mosaic work table. It adds great space when needed but takes up very little room. The legs slide under my work table now. It adjusts up and down as needed. My doorway is to the left of my desk just past the tall narrow dresser.

My house was very small and I needed every room to function for more than one thing. So my office also was my sewing room and still is in my house now.

My office is 9x9 with a corner cut out, so even smaller than 9x9. I took the door off the closet and have a pedestal file, a printer table and lots of shelves in it. I know that the following floor plan will work, because I've been living with something very similar for many years.

Thank you, everyone! I like the idea of printer in the closet and an L shaped desk (drew it into the floor plan). I've attached a floor plan. Any other ideas for making it look pulled together?

Not sure if some one would come into your office to speak to you. You might consider a smallish comfortable chair in the corner across from your desk.

My printer fit the open shelf on the top of the small dresser, under the lace edged doily, but now is tucked into the top of a side table with one file drawer in it. I no longer do the cemetery books so only use my "office" as a place to land my laptop when I need to scan paper work to email off. I mostly use it for a sewing desk. A wireless printer is wonderful it can be anywhere in the house the signal will get to. It is not a problem to walk to another room to pick up printed material. I only say this because my laptop is usually in the living room beside my chair.

Your plan looks good. since your closet is small I would consider filling the whole thing with shelves if you do not have hanging clothes in it.

I love up lighting, like a torchiere that reflects off the ceiling, for increased general light in the room. DH has a two-part floor lamp, with a torchiere (that he can aim at the wall, or towards the ceiling over the desk so the light is more located there) and a "point able" task light.

I recommend you get out a ruler and draw it to scale, and draw the furniture to scale, too. You could even cut out the furniture elements, to scale, and move them around. You might be surprised how much room you need.

Here's the office layout to scale, in your room. I added a visitor's chair, which should be light and easily moved. I have a second full size chair and a LARGE wastebasket in my office, which is 9x9. I also have a wall of bookshelves, 9 feet long and 7 feet high, which you can't do because of the window. That bookshelf wall actually makes my office seem larger than it is.

I like the look of this setup. I like the wall to wall desk.

Robo, I could work very happily in that space!

The furniture and walls blend together to make the room feel larger than it is. It would look very different if that were, for instance, cherry or mahogany against off-white walls.

I once also had a tiny square office, with a corner cut out for a closet. My husband had the wall to the right of the door, me to the left. My 4+' desk filled the little wall between the closet and the window, with printer, computer tower, and all office supplies tidily on shelves in the closet.

I don't normally like to face a wall, but the outside was right there with a little glance to the right. An orange tree with honeysuckle growing through it was just outside, so close that (without screens) I could have reached out and touched the butterflies and hummers flitting around several months a year.

Both were lessons I took from that little rental of things that really worked nice for me. Even including facing a wall in the right conditions. Here farther north, it's a bird bath under a small three the birds take their turns from.