Make The Most Of Your Basement Office
Looking to turn your basement into a functional space and think it would make a good office? Its an idea many of us are having as more people decide to work from home. Here’s a couple of ideas to help you make the most of your basement office project.
1. Part-time Basement Offices – If you work outside the home or travel a lot and only use your home office 2 or 3 days a week, or sporadically during the month in conjunction with an outside corporate office, then the best basement renovation ideas are to focus more on functionality than everyday comfort. While it is still a priority to have a dry warm space that’s well lit, your main focus will not be having an open space and a desk that’s centrally placed with an agreeable view, but the most possible storage space, the best layout for fast access to equipment such as fax, copier, computer, perhaps even a television. Therefore the number of electrical outlets and their placement is very important to avoid a tangle of wires or a lot of extension cords that are dangerous and unsightly.
2. Casual Basement Offices – If you mostly use your home office for writing letters, paying bills, keeping track of household expenses, surfing the internet, perhaps reading or researching and making telephone calls, then the best basement renovation ideas I can give you are these: keep it simple, invest in making sure the basement is dry, then buy filing cabinets or have shelves built into odd shaped areas or corners. You will have bills to keep organized, tax records etc….your desk can be small, equipment will be minimal, so the priority is organization, storage, filing systems and perhaps books. Build the space around the idea of shelves, not a desk, with shelving along most of the walls, for books and neat filing boxes. This will be a study/library/home office. Add a small settee or armchair for reading, place halogen lamps above the shelves or inside them. Leave everything as open as possible.