Work, At Home
Home Offices & Studies
A desk that belongs to the room rather than one bought to fill it — fitted so the space works for a day's work and still reads as part of the house.
The Working Room
A Study,
Not a Spare Room
Most home offices are a bedroom with a desk in it. The difference a fitted study makes is that the desk runs the full width of the wall or the window, at the right height, with the cable management, drawers and shelving drawn around it from the start.
It also matters that it can stop being an office in the evening. Concealed storage, cupboard doors that close on the work, and shelving that holds books as convincingly as it holds files — so the room is a study, not a reminder.
Desks run to the full width of a wall, window or alcove
Cable management, sockets and monitor routes planned into the desk
Shelving above and drawer or cupboard storage beneath
Concealed storage so the work can be closed away in the evening
Layouts that work in box rooms, landings and the ends of larger rooms
