I feel like we've heard the term 'working from home' A LOT recently, am I right? For some people this has been a massive adjustment, trying to find a deskspace, battling with dodgy internet signals, and having to take calls whilst shushing children/pets/partners/washing machines. Finding that perfect work environment is hard for sure!

For my husband, working from home has been the norm for the past five years, but it was only when everyone else was doing it that he really took stock of the space he had, and the space he wanted. In our previous home he was content (ish) to work from our old Victorian attic - it had been renovated beautifully and had bags of charm and character whilst doubling as our guest bedroom. When we moved to our current home, we realised that he could have a room that was entirely his, and so the project to create his ideal office space began.

The room in the house we chose is a large, north facing room, but sorely lacking in any personality. To put it nicely, it was gross, and only got worse when the layers of wallpaper were stripped off to reveal lime green everywhere. Yikes.

But I sort of knew immediately what I wanted to do with the space for him. The main thing my husband needed was storage - don't we all!? We also had a lot of existing 'stuff' that would need to get factored into the room, as the budget was fairly tight. Incorporating our old sofa bed, his guitars and music equipment, an existing Kallax unit, and the very old laminate floor, I put together a rough scheme that he loved.

It was pretty easy going, with the exeption of the wall paper stripping (my least favourite DIY job) and getting the cork wall up (that needs its own blog post entirely!), and both me and my husband are dead chuffed with the finished space.

It's so important to consider the layout of an office space - where your desk will go and how your screen/s might be impacted by natural light, access to plug sockets, and obviously the size and shape of the room you're working with. For us, we found that having the desk adjacent to the window created a much greater sense of space in the room, and allowed the cork wall to zone the working area.

We placed the sofa bed against the wall opposite the window to ensure that if we needed to open it up for guests, we wouldn't have to rearrange the room. We also chose the wall facing the desk to be the storage/gallery wall. It gave us the most amount of space for our old Kallax unit, alongside a new one, and an entire wall free for the gallery we had planned. We placed the Kallax units on these casters to make sure they could easily be shifted to access the plug sockets behind them. I think having somewhere, big or small, that is carefully considered to meet your needs as a dedicated space if you work from home for long periods of time is so important. We spend so much time at work, it makes sense to be in a place you love. Chuffed to call my husband my first happy customer.