Its great if you have a study for this sort of thing. When we had a business from home the dining table was my office space.

lots of breeze, light, reduce noise and distractions. Be well organised and neat. Have a place for everything essential and a cupboard or storage area for the things that are not. Don’t forget to personalise it just for fun

I am pretty good with this. I have set up a little office for myself in a kitchen nook. My other alternate is our balcony view which is an immediate view of the inner city with its skyscrapers. While super lovely and I never tire of it, I find I just stare out the window instead of working.

Also, set up a good organisational system from day one.

Have set time to clean the house otherwise housework may have the potential to distract you

Great tips, especially to make it more inviting. Nothing worse than dreading doing something and having to do it in a place that makes you want to run a mile. Thanks for sharing.

Our home office could definitiely use some improvement. Not sure it would help me as I’m a chronic procrastinator but it would certainly make the space more inviting.

A different perspective, thanks for sharing.

We can tick off the first two in our home office, something we learned the hard way in our home. Number three is a long way off though, as I seem to accumulate huge piles of unnecessary “stuff” that clutter and distract and generally get in the way. Thanks for sharing this list and giving me a little more motivation to work on organising our office better.

I would love to be able to work at home and when we designed our house we even planned the space however the opportunity has not yet arisen for me to use it so it has not yet been fitted out. I look forward to being able to do it.

Make it visually stimulating. My home office is set up in a spare bedroom but is a fully-fledged office. Everything I need for my work/office is in this space. It’s not a place for my family to come and borrow things from the desk, or put their crap in. It is my office. MY Home Office and they respect that. Everything has its place from filing trays, to filing cabinets, to a wardrobe that hides my stationery, and other work bits. I’ve since completed a makeover to brighten things up and motivate me more.

Think it’s important to create a space where you can concentrate. This might look different for everybody. My husband always takes big walks in forest and around lakes do ponder on planning.

Hubby was hopeless in his home business – always helping others and the local school and not concentrating on his business. One of the worse things was a lovely view from his window – he daydreamed watching the ships go by.

Lke gf

Great tips, hubby hopes to open up new business soon so this is great advise.

These are excellent for an y office tips and study spaces, including those of our children. Thanks for sharing.

My husband has just set up a home office. The most important thing we needed to do was separate his area from the rest of the house; so no toys, tv etc getting in the way.

My tip would be to have a “To Do” list for that day and not to leave your home office until all the items on that list are crossed off.

And another tip is keep it seperate from the living areas i.e. dont have tv in there so you don’t mix relaxation and work.

My biggest tip is to have great motivation. Unless you can make sure you will stay working for a good proportion of the time, than don’t work from home. It’s so easy to get side tracked into your social pages, emails, etc. and think you’ll do that work tomorrow. This is one time that tomorrow never comes.