Interior designer Barbara Hayman, who also works with Decorating Den, notes that the quartet of privacy, storage, cord management, and lighting need to be considered for every home work space, no matter how it will be used.

“Are you using it for your personal life? Will your job be out of the office? Will you have clients come in? What about kids?” and Canada, says the first step in determining how to lay out a home office is to better understand how your needs can be met in the available square footage. Interior designer Dee Frazier, who works with Decorating Den Interiors, a network of individually owned and operated interior design franchises throughout the U.S. To ensure your space is working as hard and efficiently as you are, it’s important to design the office with a few key principles in mind. But now, with remote work and virtual school being the norm for families across the United States, the home office has become one of the most important, and most coveted, rooms of the house.

Designing a home office space