5 Home office design ideas that will refresh your job ethic
(5 min read) Wherever you may live right now, chances are you were probably home-bound for a long while. Whether if it’s due to coronavirus, some natural disaster, or riots due to some awful social injustice, a large majority of us were forced to work from home. Existing home offices were used to their maximum potential or created in the most unlikely spaces. Some of us had to adapt our bedrooms, home-gyms, and storage-rooms, others added work-desks to their bedrooms and living-rooms. All in all, it was and still is a fun experience altogether. #sarcasm
Needless to say, at this point, we are all sick and tired of our home-offices, laptops. We are all in dire need of something new and good. Changing ourselves takes time, laptops remain pretty much the same, but one thing we can change is our home-offices. While making this awesome list of tips and tricks we kept in mind all types of budgets, so you will surely find something that will help you freshen up your own home office.
1. Walls
One of the best things you can do to make your home-office appear new and vibrant is to re-paint your walls. Choosing the right color for your home office can be a make-or-break deal and it can heavily affect your will to work in it. If you are working in a creative field you want to go for the color that will promote creativity. Red, yellow, and green will do miracles to boost your creativity. If your job requires a lot of concentration you should paint your walls black or deep-blue. Black color attracts positive energy and it never goes out of trend, so it is always a good choice, while blue works as a terrific stress reliever.
2. Change your desk
When I say change your desk, I don’t necessarily mean that you should buy a new one. If your current desk is a quality wooden desk that fits your needs, there is no reason for you to go buy another one. However, there are many ways to change your good ole office-tool without actually changing it. First of all, you can hire a mosaic artist to do a fabulous mosaic design on your desk sides or edges or you can check out some of our gorgeous borders here at MosaicLab and change your dingy old desk yourself. Aside from mosaic, you can also go for a decoupage desk and let your local decoupage do their magic. However, I will always advise you to go for mosaic art because it is highly-durable, it never grows old and it doesn’t require any type of special maintenance. Whatever else you choose you will at least have to at least lacquer your desk from time to time.
3. Bring the outdoors inside
Add some green curtains to your office window, go for a rug with floral patterns, add a forest-scene background to your computer screen… The possibilities are endless. Don’t forget to add some plants. For example, Devil’s Ivy and Aglaonema would look great on your desk and they are easy-to-care-for. If your desk is too small and you don’t have any shelves, just put a gorgeous Ficus Benjamina or cactus on the floor and your office will look much better immediately.
4. Think — Maldives, Japan, Seychelles, Alps…
Inject your favorite or your wishful-thinking destinations into your home-office. Hang a rattan chandelier on your ceiling, use a huge Triton seashell as a paper-holder, or hang a Hyottoko mask on your wall. I always thought seashore and mountain-paintings in offices looked tacky and travel-agency-ish, but if you are into that, go for it! It’s your home office, I won’t judge.
5. Show off your hobbies
Your hobbies are always the things you love, while your work doesn’t have to be, so make it more loveable by bringing some small portion of your hobbies into your home-office. If you are into cars, put some Oldsmobile maquettes on your shelves, if you’re into manga comics frame your favorite pages and hang them on your walls. Be careful not to go too crazy with it though, because if you add too much of your hobby into your office it could work as a distraction.
All in all, your office — your rules. We are just here to give you some ideas and help you cope with this current situation with some lighthearted, but constructive and colorful articles. We hope that we have managed to make this blog a safe space for you to go to whenever you need some brightness and useful tips to lighten up your day.
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These are some really great tips on refreshing your home office. I especially love the one about showing off your hobbies.
I love how all of these look! We really need to revamp our office
That shell desk is gorgeous and I love the large world map on the wall! We did a complete redo of our office at the end of last year, who knew we would be spending so much time in here just a few months later!
All of these are so gorgeous! My favourite is the floral! Would love to do something like that when u move into a bigger space!
Thank you for sharing!
ahhh so many of these officers are sooooo pretty!!! I finally moved not to long ago and I finally have an office space so im glad to have a great space
I love the outdoors theme! So unique!
Hahahaha! Redesigning or even simply relocating some things in the workplace really has an effect right? wierd but yeah, I feel this too.
I love all of these. I wish I had an office. I just type from the living room couch!
I am all for bringing the outside inside seeing as though I cannot work outside in peace:) If they truly allow that to happen then I would be a happy camper. The bright colors on the walls would be another choice for me.
What fun decor for the home office. I love all of these ideas. Those mosaic desks are crazy..wow. I can really appreciate them and the work involved in making them, but not sure I would want something like that. I’m more into simple style! 🙂
I love the black one with the roses at the top. So perfect!
What’s better than having a beautiful, tidy, design and ethical office. Great advice! ^_^
Having a nice work space that you like the look of is so important for productivity at home!
The one with the lush greenery would definitely be my choice 🙂
Ooh fun, these are lovely. We dismantled our office in favor of a book room but these would work well in there as well.
Beautiful office spaces! I wish mine looked like that! How inspiring it would be to work in a place that makes you feel energized. I like the one with the hanging plants. So refreshing to the eyes!
No.3 is very witty. I would love to bring the forest inside my work place. that would be nice,
great ideas! I too find myself working more productively after redecorated my work space
Awesome tips and advice on how to redesign your working and living spaces. I can do up to a certain point but I am hoping to redecorate my apartment.
These designs are all bomb. I enjoyed your blog.
Now I am inspired to decorate my office. I really like so many of these ideas
Love the mosaic desk and the idea of bringing the outside indoors. You are welcome to come and resign my house anytime! Your ideas are great
Wow..these ideas are much unique and attractive..love them..Thanks for sharing them…They are really very helpful for me at the time…
I hear you… I’m redecorating like crazy! And I must say I’m starting to like it in the process;)
I painted the walls in my office during the second week of quarantine. It made a huge difference on my moods while working from home. I love that you have that idea listed first!
These are amazing office designs! Super chick and giving inspiration on changing my work from home office now.
These are some great ideas. I love bringing the outdoors inside. It’s such an easy way to liven up any room.
Wow! Absolutely love the settings! Looks so cozy and nice!
I love your ideas. I’m definitely getting sick of staring at the same walls. I just painted my bedroom and my bedroom furniture. It has made a huge difference. I love being in that room now.
The office with the dark walls has to be my favorite! Neat styles you’ve chosen!
Yes! I love all the new tricks and looks for my new home!
I need to create my home office in the new apartment I’ve recently bought. I already love some of them, especially the last one. So cute! 🙂
These office design ideas are all so pretty! If I had an office I’ll definitely take inspiration from the photos above!
I have been thinking about ways to refresh my home office. I think changing the colours of the walls would be a great idea. I also like the tip about adding plants to the space.
Love how colorfull some of them are. Lovely places to do work
I would very much like to refresh my office which, although at home, I would like to make more ethical and design. ^^3
I love things in black. And I exactly want my office like the third picture, I will check it out with the interior decorators here.
These are some excellent office ideas that everyone should have. Hay think that the more relaxed we are at our office the more productive we can be.
I was just reading about how to declutter your office and relieve stress. I think I’m going to combine that idea with these redecorating ideas and start fresh with a beautiful home office
This is refreshing, but I think I really like my office space to be really plain..no distractions! 😀
Wao, I really love those hanging plants… a good idea for my home office. Thaks!
Wow, some of these ideas are really out there. I don’t have an office space, I like to work from the sofa! lol
I would love a home office, maybe I’ll get one in my next house.
These are cool home office design ideas. I especially like the numbers 3 and 5 designs 🙂
These are really great tips. Especially with the quarantine, it is to time to redecorate. I am in need of a restart to my space!!!!
I never think to show off hobbies in the office space. Love moving the desk around. It helps refresh the area.
these will brighten up any room and bring the vibe up! brilliant
I love these designs! I can’t wait to redo some spaces in my home
Ohhhh! I would take any of these right now!!! I spent last fall working in the living room b/c my mama was living in my home office following surgery – no sooner does she go home than this mess hits, and suddenly EVERYONE is in the living room, and my home office is still not back to a home office! All gorgeous and all VERY inspiring to me at the moment!
These are beautifully designed spaces. I love a white space with lots of greenery. I hope to move into a space where i can have office area. Thanks for sharing these options.
Great tips! My favorite is number 3. Plants always give a nice touch!
The designs are beautiful and amazing!
xoxo
Lovely
Wow! I love the various styles that you’ve shown off. A workspace where you can focus and feel at ease is crucial to crafting a home office!
Wow so bright and colourful. Yellow looks like a great choice.
So many wonderful ideas.. I would love to have an office like that..
I have to admit that I LOVE the yellow office. Such bright colours can be so inspiring!
The working desk design looks so promising. I love how plants are incorporated in the theme.
All of those offices look like wonderful places to get some work done. I can’t wait to revamp our office in our home now.
Wow. I pretty much LOVE all of these office designs!!! For my existing office, it would be nice to bring plants in, but I think it’s too dim. Sadly, my office doesn’t get much sunlight.
Wow! The pic on top and the office with the black walls, I’M IN LOVE. I to want to redocorate and change my home office to look more glam. I’m looking for a new desk now. Love all your tips.
I work from home so these home office design ideas are really fabulous! I did not know that the colour blue was a stress reliever
Whoa these are some awesome home offices! I particularly love the ones with the bright walls and lots of indoor plants!
These are giving me life!
I love that colorful mosaic desk – it would make me happy to look at that every day.
I can’t wait until we move so I can design my office. So many great options here!
Without much ado, #4 is definitely happening soon. Since we can’t travel due to the pandemic, I better enjoy and get inspired by different flags and memorabilia from those places.
These are so beautiful and I admit having these designs for my office will definitely help me to boost my productivity to do my works. I love it!
I have plan to make my own office room and I can’t decide what’s the perfect design until I found this blog you give me a lot of idea and it sounds amazing I would love to save this post! Thanks a lot!
Wonderful designs as always you are sharing! The wall color is attractive, design of desk, wishful thinking destinations presentation every this is attractive. Thanks for sharing this great idea.
So many fun and inspirational photos as usual! I’ve been planning to redecorate my home office and am definitely going to add more plants and some of my favorite travel photos.
All these pictures look so cozy and comforting!
I am such a sucker for home office ideas on Pinterest! And this one just made my day. Love all of your ideas!!!!
These are great ideas. I’m definitely going to apply some to my home office.
My home office could definitely use an overhaul!! Loving all of these ideas, appreciate the inspiration!!
My office space could really do with a refresh and I know it would also make me more productive
Laura x
I have actually just designed my home office, under the stairs. As traveling is my main activity, I decorated my shelves with my collection of Lonely Planet guidebooks, some souveniers of the places I traveled to and my camera gear bag. It looks pretty cool.
These are really a beautiful design and great tips for designing office, table, room and home.
I love adding indoor plants in my workspace and even in many parts of our home. It gives a positive vibe and making us look forward to the next vacation.
I couldnt decide which I liked best because they were all so good! I am more eclectic boho and all of these would work well with that!
Great Tips!! Home office with some lush greenery is ma favourite one
I love all the ideas! I have a very small office space so I try to make it simple and neat.
Bringing the outdoors in is something that I love. I have been putting plants one at a time inside our home.
I love all of these. I could definitely use some plants in my own office, but it’s not very light!
Totally agree..these ideas really looks so amazing and lovely…
Nice ideas! They’re very motivating, I love the lush greenery style the most