Home Office Design: Everything You Need to Know About Planning, Organizing, and Furnishing Your Work Space - Softcover

Zimmerman, Neal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471134333 ISBN 13: 9780471134336

Publisher: Wiley, 1996

Synopsis

Your personal consultant for creating the perfect home work space Here is all the information you need to create a comfortable, efficient home office custom designed to meet your personal and professional needs. In this book, architect and home office design expert Neal Zimmerman shows you how to plan, design, and equip the home office that’s right for you. He helps you decide when to do the work yourself and when to hire professionals; and his numerous floor plans, photos, and examples provide countless design ideas and solutions to virtually every problem you encounter. This practical and inspiring guide provides

• Clear, step-by-step instructions for planning, organizing, and designing your home office space
• Simple tools for controlling costs and ensuring that you get the results you want
• Extensive coverage of workstation design
• Hundreds of photos, floor plans, and drawings to inspire the imagination and solve problems
• A broad range of design options to fit every budget
• Surveys of equipment, furnishings, and accessories available to help make your home office a better organized, more comfortable place to work
• Guidelines for those who are considering extensive renovations
• A section on planning for the desktop video era
• Charts, diagrams, planning methods, and inventory sheets to streamline the planning and design process

About this title

About the Author

NEAL ZIMMERMAN, AIA, is Principal of Zimmerman Architects in West Hartford, Connecticut. He has written numerous articles on residential and commercial office design and served as editor of the Sunday Hartford Courant’s "Residential Design by Connecticut Architects" series.

• Clear, step-by-step instructions for planning, organizing, and designing your home office space
• Simple tools for controlling costs and ensuring that you get the results you want
• Extensive coverage of workstation design
• Hundreds of photos, floor plans, and drawings to inspire the imagination and solve problems
• A broad range of design options to fit every budget
• Surveys of equipment, furnishings, and accessories available to help make your home office a better organized, more comfortable place to work
• Guidelines for those who are considering extensive renovations
• A section on planning for the desktop video era
• Charts, diagrams, planning methods, and inventory sheets to streamline the planning and design process

Reviews

These two books take different approaches to the topic of home offices. Zimmerman looks at the nuts-and-bolts practicality of planning a home office. For those unfamiliar with the design considerations involved in setting up an efficient, comfortable home office, he gives advice on everything from where to set up an office to the type of electrical power needed to supply all the gadgets. He includes an extensive section on furniture and product resources as well. Through numerous color photographs, Paul shows everything from small offices to ones in converted out-buildings. She considers how each look was accomplished, but her book is useful mainly as a way to show how the ideas from Zimmerman's book can be attractively incorporated into the home. Since technology now allows more and more people to work at home, both books will be useful for public libraries. (Illustrations not seen.)
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Architect Zimmerman offers a range of information to consider in planning a home office. Both pros and cons of all subjects are examined, beginning with specific locations (attic versus basement, spare bedroom versus walk-in closet) and concluding with notes on art, accessories, and plants. One of the most practical sections is a photo gallery of options for workstation furniture, seating, filing/storage, ergonomic tools, and task lighting, each with a cost range code and a brief description. Occasionally, the text is too sparse, relying on pictures to do the work; more checklists and data would be welcome. Nonetheless, a straightforward starting place for the 40 million of us doing at least some work at home. Barbara Jacobs

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471134333
• ISBN 13: 9780471134336
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 205