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Working from home may not be<br />
all fun and games, but there is no<br />
reason why your home office has to<br />
be dull. Add some personal touches<br />
and transform it into a space in<br />
which you actually enjoy spending<br />
time.<br />
To take your home office to the<br />
next level, add some abstract<br />
art, with prints featuring organic<br />
shapes and complementary<br />
monochrome colours<br />
Selection of framed prints, all<br />
Desenio.<br />
Give your Home<br />
Office an Uplift<br />
Working from home at least gives you more<br />
time to tend to your plant collection. If you<br />
haven’t got one, now’s the time to start.<br />
Terracotta plant pots, from £2 each,<br />
Scaramanga.<br />
Combine support and style<br />
with an office chair that raises<br />
and lowers to a comfortable<br />
position, swivels easily and<br />
looks good enough to fit into<br />
your overall room scheme.<br />
Calgary office chair in faux<br />
leather, £164.99, Lakeland<br />
Furniture.<br />
A home office need never<br />
be drab. Add some colour<br />
with well-chosen shades<br />
of paint.<br />
Shown here: Greek Blue,<br />
Louis Blue, Giverny,<br />
Napoleonic Blue and<br />
Athenian Black, all £5.95 per<br />
120ml, Annie Sloan.<br />
Add a spot of cheerful colour in the<br />
form of an adjustable desk lamp.<br />
Ginaz table lamp, £25, B&Q.<br />
A HOME OFFICE ‘GLOW UP’<br />
Colour is important. If a particular colour makes you<br />
feel happy – add it! If you don’t want to go as far<br />
as painting the whole room, just refresh the wall<br />
behind the desk (that you spend the majority of<br />
your time looking at) with a small pot of emulsion.<br />
You can also add colour in the form of furniture and<br />
accessories, from an office chair to the essential<br />
adjustable desk lamp, as well as pen holders, clocks<br />
or paperweights.<br />
Personalise the walls with your favourite prints,<br />
posters, paintings and photographs. For a formal<br />
look, frame them identically and hang them<br />
symmetrically. Alternatively, you could peg small<br />
pictures to a string, stick postcards to a corkboard<br />
with coloured drawing pins or prop them, facing<br />
outwards, on a narrow shelf.<br />
It’s all about comfort, so make sure you’re working<br />
at the right temperature. A small desk fan for the<br />
summer may be useful, while in the winter a heater<br />
can be an essential. For an even cosier feel, choose a<br />
woolly throw that looks pretty and feels soft.<br />
A few plants dotted here and there go a long way<br />
to making an office feel more homely. Increase the<br />
sensory experience with a vase of fresh flowers,<br />
scented candles or an aromatic diffuser.
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