Office Furniture Companies offer a Multitude of Home Office Options – Part 1
If you happen to have a makeshift office at your home, then this scenario is most familiar to you. Computer cables and wires constantly trips your family’s footing, cell phone chargers can be found in side the loo and many other unlikely places, papers stacked in the kitchen counter, the bedroom cluttered with phone bills and mail, the dresser being a substitute for a filing cabinet and the living room looking like a front desk. Pretty accurate?
We have to admit that most homes weren’t designed with the space of an office home in mind. But with the demands of work, many families are forced to carve out corners of space in dining rooms, dens and bedrooms, then filled the space with hand-me-down furniture. The problem is, most people tend not to give their home offices the same maintenance and care as with the other areas of the house. Most heads of the family disregards the importance of incorporating the most appropriate furniture to their homes. Three huge office furniture company offers a resolution to this.
“Consumers are looking for home furnishings that make their lives easier,” says Jackie Hirschhaut, vice president of the American Home Furnishings Alliance. “Hidden storage, connectivity, charging stations - these are all important innovations to the category shoppers are embracing. As long as their are new electronics and technology devices, there will be a demand for multi-functional home office solutions.”
Function, storage and organization are key elements needed in home office furnishings, without looking like office furniture. This principle is the standard not only to American Home Furnishings but with many other companies as well.
Brian Nichols of Techline Studio also has an input on office homes.”When people come in, they have a certain look in mind, but functionality usually wins out. People want wood veneers, they want nice-looking pieces, and they want the printer that fits in a cabinet with a pull-out shelf, the desk where they can shut down the laptop and slide it under and out of the way. They don’t want any stuff showing when they’re not working.”
Posted on: Workspace
Related articles
Recent Posts
- Getting Organized
- Taking Care of your Office Wood Table or Cabinet Storage
- On Choosing the Right Storage
- The Myths and Facts of Sitting Up Straight
- Companies Answer Employees’ Demands for a Better Workplace
- The Soft-Environment Office
- Two-in-One Office Furniture: A Desk and a Charger
- The Healthy Way to Sit
- Home Office Lighting Tips
- Choosing Storage Cabinets
News archive
- November 2007 (15)
- October 2007 (63)
- September 2007 (79)
- August 2007 (14)
- July 2007 (27)
- June 2007 (41)
- May 2007 (30)
- April 2007 (17)
- March 2007 (21)
- February 2007 (15)
- January 2007 (21)
- December 2006 (11)
- November 2006 (10)
- October 2006 (10)
- September 2006 (14)
- August 2006 (15)
- July 2006 (23)
- June 2006 (5)