Anonymous
08/02/2015 10:04
Subject: Big rectangular living room needs to be our home office
Can you put a desk behind a couch?
Anonymous
08/02/2015 08:35
Subject: Re:Big rectangular living room needs to be our home office
Bow window and fireplace are centered on the long sides.
The living room is sunken, with two steps up to go to the dining room or the entry way.
Thank you for the ideas! I am also going to get houzz people to weigh in, as suggested.
The living room is sunken, with two steps up to go to the dining room or the entry way.
Thank you for the ideas! I am also going to get houzz people to weigh in, as suggested.
Anonymous
08/02/2015 00:09
Subject: Big rectangular living room needs to be our home office
Where are the doors placed on the walls and how large are they?
Is the bow window and the fireplace centered on their walls?
Is the bow window and the fireplace centered on their walls?
Anonymous
08/01/2015 21:05
Subject: Big rectangular living room needs to be our home office
Room divider? Break it in half with a screen or some bookcases. Put the desk in front of the screen on the DR side; make a little library/book nook on the other side.
Anonymous
08/01/2015 19:01
Subject: Big rectangular living room needs to be our home office
How about it you made two smaller working/sitting areas within, rather than one huge desk with file cabinets?
Break it into a work area past the curved window/fireplace, and a different work look in front of these. A sitting area (two arm chairs or such) with a small round table for winter work tea for two might be charming. Buy file cabinets that are not metal but wood look and such. Add a nice rug in the sitting area, and art on the fireplace wall of the two work areas. GL.
Break it into a work area past the curved window/fireplace, and a different work look in front of these. A sitting area (two arm chairs or such) with a small round table for winter work tea for two might be charming. Buy file cabinets that are not metal but wood look and such. Add a nice rug in the sitting area, and art on the fireplace wall of the two work areas. GL.
Anonymous
08/01/2015 18:13
Subject: Big rectangular living room needs to be our home office
Post a photo on the appropriate place on Houzz.com and people will chime in with ideas.
Anonymous
08/01/2015 17:34
Subject: Big rectangular living room needs to be our home office
The gist of my question: Anyone know how to make a big rectangular room a useful home office, while looking somewhat decorated and mess-contained?
I am just so frustrated because I have a lovely room with no function, and a need for a home office but no room for it.
We live in an older stone rancher. The front room is a huge, rectangular living room, with a big, curved window on one of the long sides and a fireplace on the other. It's a big room, but these two features make it tough to have a huge table or desk surface with file cabinets, etc. in the center. Off to the side, it makes even less sense. (Not much room in the corners because soon you're encroaching on the curved window or the fireplace). The short sides of the rectangle both have entry ways, one to the DR, one to the foyer.
Also, we have a curved Henredon sofa next to the curved window; the original owners had it custom made to fit the window and I'm attached to it plus I think the window is hard to work with anyway.
Anyone have a home office in a similarly arranged space?
I am just so frustrated because I have a lovely room with no function, and a need for a home office but no room for it.
We live in an older stone rancher. The front room is a huge, rectangular living room, with a big, curved window on one of the long sides and a fireplace on the other. It's a big room, but these two features make it tough to have a huge table or desk surface with file cabinets, etc. in the center. Off to the side, it makes even less sense. (Not much room in the corners because soon you're encroaching on the curved window or the fireplace). The short sides of the rectangle both have entry ways, one to the DR, one to the foyer.
Also, we have a curved Henredon sofa next to the curved window; the original owners had it custom made to fit the window and I'm attached to it plus I think the window is hard to work with anyway.
Anyone have a home office in a similarly arranged space?