7 Simple Ways to Give Your Home Office a Speedy Refresh
Make working from home, tackling bills or doing your taxes more enjoyable with these ideas
Home offices often are fairly low on the list of rooms or areas to refresh, even though many of us now work from home some of the time as well as regularly use these spaces to take care of finances and correspondence. But with some tidying up and design-led TLC, it’s easy to turn things around. These home offices — minus their electrical cords and everyday clutter for the photo shoots — show seven quick refreshes for your home office.
Elms Interior Design
Or instead paper the back wall of your bookshelves. To finish the look, add a few accessories that pick up a color from the new design.
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Or instead paper the back wall of your bookshelves. To finish the look, add a few accessories that pick up a color from the new design.
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Cummings Architects
2. Add Houseplants
Greenery is good for the soul. So add a natural touch to a home office area with some trailing houseplants or sculptural succulents.
2. Add Houseplants
Greenery is good for the soul. So add a natural touch to a home office area with some trailing houseplants or sculptural succulents.
Second Nature Interiors
Many houseplants are valued for their air-purifying properties, so they may also help keep you breathing easy while you work.
Many houseplants are valued for their air-purifying properties, so they may also help keep you breathing easy while you work.
Maggie Stephens Interiors
3. Soften the Space
A workspace doesn’t have to be all hard edges and sleek lines. You can easily add softness and comfort with a fabric window covering, cushions and throws to cozy up the space.
3. Soften the Space
A workspace doesn’t have to be all hard edges and sleek lines. You can easily add softness and comfort with a fabric window covering, cushions and throws to cozy up the space.
Wright-Ryan Homes
The aim is to make the space somewhere you’re happy to be in, so choose patterns and finishes that will encourage you to undertake your mini commute from kitchen to office in a positive frame of mind.
The aim is to make the space somewhere you’re happy to be in, so choose patterns and finishes that will encourage you to undertake your mini commute from kitchen to office in a positive frame of mind.
Sage Design Studio
4. Coordinate Your Files
A messy office overflowing with paper isn’t going to inspire you to buckle down, so invest in new file boxes to keep everything looking good.
4. Coordinate Your Files
A messy office overflowing with paper isn’t going to inspire you to buckle down, so invest in new file boxes to keep everything looking good.
Stuart Carlisle
Choose a bright color or go for white, black or brown file boxes for a classic look.
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Choose a bright color or go for white, black or brown file boxes for a classic look.
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Glas Associates
5. Brighten the Room With a Rug
White can be calm and nondistracting in a working environment, but it can also look a bit sterile and cold. By laying down a patterned rug, you can alter the feel of the space.
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5. Brighten the Room With a Rug
White can be calm and nondistracting in a working environment, but it can also look a bit sterile and cold. By laying down a patterned rug, you can alter the feel of the space.
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Clare Elise Interiors
Borrow a rug from another room first to try out the look.
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Borrow a rug from another room first to try out the look.
The Top 15 Home Office Photos of 2018
Jill Wolff Interior Design
6. Paint the Desk
Do you have an unloved pine desk or a boring white work surface? Get out the color charts and choose a cheery hue to inject some creative flair into your workspace.
6. Paint the Desk
Do you have an unloved pine desk or a boring white work surface? Get out the color charts and choose a cheery hue to inject some creative flair into your workspace.
Leeder Interiors
Specialty paints can be used on laminated or varnished surfaces. This bubble gum pink would certainly liven up a session poring over spending forecasts and spreadsheets.
Specialty paints can be used on laminated or varnished surfaces. This bubble gum pink would certainly liven up a session poring over spending forecasts and spreadsheets.
Oak Hill Architects
7. Put Up a Corkboard
Here’s a quick fix that checks off the all-important practicality box, as well as tapping into the 1970s revival vibe. How about adding a cork wall or corkboard to your office space?
7. Put Up a Corkboard
Here’s a quick fix that checks off the all-important practicality box, as well as tapping into the 1970s revival vibe. How about adding a cork wall or corkboard to your office space?
ArchitectureWorks
You can use the corkboard to pin up memos, lists, notes and art, and clear valuable space on your desk.
Tell us: What have you done to spruce up your home office? Share your ideas in the Comments.
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You can use the corkboard to pin up memos, lists, notes and art, and clear valuable space on your desk.
Tell us: What have you done to spruce up your home office? Share your ideas in the Comments.
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Read more stories about home office design
Find a home pro near you
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1. Perk Up Your Office With Wallpaper
Turn your attention to more interesting paperwork with a lively wallpaper design on the desk wall. A small area like this could be covered in an afternoon.
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