FIVE FOUNDATIONS IONS OF A STYLISH HOME OFFICE

When your daily commute is to your home office, you can be the boss of your workspace design. Here's how...

- HOLLY REANEY

 1 INTRODUCE COLOUR AND PATTERN

Working from home gives you the opportunity to make your workspace your own; no grey desks and bare walls here. Your office needs to feel like a place where you want to spend time. 'When designing this study, I wanted to inject a dash of flamboyance, but in a thoughtful, tailored way, so as not to upstage the rest of the space. The curtains have this wonderful, loud, yellow pattern but they are also in a very traditional style, with a structured pelmet. And the navy blue contrast edge acts as a clean dividing line between the bold yellow pattern and the view through the window,' says Sarah Peake, founder of Studio Peake. 

2 THINK ABOUT ORGANISATION