Redesigning a Home Office for Under $1,500 | Quick Design Tips

Working from a home office has never been more popular. Watch Interior Designer Lisa Moody complete a total home office makeover and offer some simple design tips for your own home office.
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ABOUT LISA MOODY AND GRAPEVINE DESIGNS
Lisa Moody has over 21 years of professional interior design experience. She began her interior design career by enrolling in several specialized design courses and apprenticed for Judy Wyatt Interior Designs. After working in the drapery department at The Bay, she was ready to branch out on her own and opened Grapevine Designs in 1997. Grapevine Designs is a company offering interior design services, retail furniture and styling: Serving Surrey, Langley, Abbotsford, White Rock, Burnaby, Vancouver and beyond. We specialize in boutique design services, offering a personal design approach, getting to know our clients, their vision for their home and how they want to live in them. Visit Grapevine Designs here: www.grapevinedesigns.ca/
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At this point, working from a home office is a fact of life for many Canadians. With the sudden pivot to working from home, many WFH-ers never had the opportunity to create a workspace that’s both appealing and functional.
The first thing to consider is always the person (or people) using the home office. Every design choice that follows should focus on the people who will be spending 40 hours a week in the space.
So with that in mind, decide on a basic aesthetic and choose a colour scheme. Whether you want a minimalist design with lots of wood grains and muted colours, or a kitschy setup with a wide assortment of furniture and colours, it’s important to decide before you start buying anything new.
Often, you’ll be starting with some of the furniture already on hand. That helps make things more straightforward, as you’ve got a starting point for your home office design choices.
One thing that’s often an issue with home office setups is cable management; there’s nothing less aesthetically appealing than a rat’s nest of tangled cords. Make sure your design choices include a way to organize (or hide) power and data cables as necessary.
Finally, with furniture (including a great office chair) decided, you can add some finishing touches. Live plants are a terrific addition to almost any work-from-home space. You should also find artwork that matches your overall design. If you don’t have any wall art to work with, there’s nothing wrong with finding some free designs online and printing them out. Along with some second-hand frames, you can cover your walls without spending too much money.
00:00 Intro
00:19 1. Consider the space
00:50 2. Work with what you have
01:12 3. Choose a colour scheme
02:03 4. Style with decorative elements
02:24 5. Consider adding live plants
02:45 Do-it-yourself drapes
03:50 Transformation
04:17 Cost breakdown
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