Warm Weather Decorating: Your Home Office

by Sherry Holetzky | More from this Blogger

27 May 2008 11:44 AM

With spring in full swing and summer quickly approaching, you may find yourself feeling a little cooped up in your home office. While we all want a tasteful, organized space to work in there is nothing wrong with adding light, color, and even some whimsy to the space in which we spend so much time.

Light may be the most important aspect. Of course, lighting is essential, but I'm talking about light in another sense. Letting in the sunshine so you don't feel so closed up in your office is important. Bringing the outdoors in is a familiar theme, not new or unusual, but it may be most important in the home office. No one wants to feel trapped inside when it's a beautiful day. Something as simple as opening the windows and letting in some fresh air can change your entire outlook for the day, and there are of course, other options as well.

You may find some of the tips in the following article useful in your home office:

Change the Feel of a Space with these Decorating Tips

You may also need to move your desk to face the windows if it doesn't already. Take care with the position to avoid too much bright light or glare on your monitor screen from the sun, while still allowing you to enjoy as much sunlight as possible.

Adding some plants, especially flowering plants, also helps bring a sense of the outdoors inside.

Also consider adding a light color to your desk and chair. Something as simple as white poster board on top of your desk will lighten things up a lot. A quick, simple slipcover for your office chair can do wonders too.

A great color scheme for lightening and brightening things up, giving a sense of outdoors, is white with a shade of green such as lime or kiwi. You can go summery without going flowery, but then again, there's no rule against flowing fabrics or flowery prints in the home office, if that's what you like.

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Sherry Holetzky is a work at home mom and freelance writer. Married to her best friend, Sherry and her husband are raising their family in a quiet rural setting in the beautiful Ozark Mountains.

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