One of my clients had used a dining room chair as a desk chair for years. When she got a “real” office chair for her home office (at my urging), she was thrilled with how much more comfortable she was working at home. After the deluge of catalogues for holiday gift giving, we now have…There’s more. Click here.
Three Reasons Why You Should Avoid “Decorator” Chairs in Your Home Office: When Pretty Must Take a Back Seat to Comfort
January 18, 2011 By
The Desk Hutch: Why You DON’T Want One in Your Home Office
November 9, 2010 By
The “desk hutch” is something you will find in many home office catalogues and online decorating sites and blogs. I am here to tell you that they are a waste of valuable desktop real estate. In the last The Smarter Home Office post we talked about the need for a large work surface on you…There’s more. Click here.
Desk Tops: Size Matters in the Home Office Too
November 5, 2010 By
Factoid: the amount of information crossing your desk has increased by 600%, while the size of the average desk has decreased by 37%. What I too often see in stores and catalogues for home office desks are: “Computer desks” – furniture that is just big enough to hold a monitor, keyboard and PCU, period. No…There’s more. Click here.
Your Home Office File Cabinet: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
October 20, 2010 By
An increasing number of home office furniture options are now available to the work-at-home mom, entrepreneur and telecommuter. One client had a cheap shallow file cabinet (left over from her grad school days) that she could barely open. She confessed that she stacked papers around her desk because it was too hard to open her…There’s more. Click here.
Quick Home Office Energizer: Open a Window and Let Light and Life In
October 12, 2010 By
Recently I noticed that the sky looks bluer and more intense during the fall. During the summer it is a pale blue, while during the winter it often is a pale gray. We tend to focus on the brilliant colors of the changing foliage, but overlook the deeper blue that highlights the golds, reds and…There’s more. Click here.