The Home Office Book - Hardcover

Paul, Donna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1885183305 ISBN 13: 9781885183309

Publisher: Artisan, 1996

Synopsis

The Home Office Book explores all aspects of creating a workable, comfortable, and stylish office at home. A rich source of ideas, information, and design solutions, The Home Office Book also comes at a timely moment, as one in five Americans works from home today.

Author Donna Paul, a contributing editor to Metropolitan Home, brings her experience and expertise to an analysis of forty-five home offices around the country, looking at how and why they work. These locations offer practical, innovative possibilities for storage, lighting, seating, work surfaces, entrances, reception areas, and much more. Whether the office is tucked into the corner of a living room, installed in a second bedroom, or housed in a converted garage, The Home Office Book suggests ingenious ways to work with the space available. Some of the home offices are designed with one user in mind; others are to be shared with a mate or associate. Many of the offices must perform double duty, sliding out of sight or converting when needed into guest quarters, dining rooms, or additional living spaces.

The more than 250 color photographs--showing entire rooms as well as wonderful details--offer practical and creative design ideas. With its extensive source listing, The Home Office Book will be an invaluable resource for anyone who dreams of going into business at home.

About this title

About the Author:

Donna Paul has been a contributing design editor for Metropolitan Home since 1983, covering Boston and New England. Her work has appeared in Food & Wine, The New York Times home section, The Boston Globe Home Magazine, and Boston Magazine. She works out of her home office in New York City.

From Booklist:

This book is 180 degrees removed from the practicalities offered by such home-office experts as Paul and Sarah Edwards. Although a nod or two is given to budgets, the photographic showcase of 45 home offices is exciting, breathtaking, and, yes, usually expensive. Of course, design ideas proliferate, acting as a real motivator to do something for the home working environment in which 20 percent of us live. A cast-off, stainless steel shoe rack becomes a wall-bound book and magazine holder; old bowling balls perform as humorous finials for a bookcase; and restaurant shelving now holds a myriad of office papers and products. Metropolitan Home editor Paul segregates her examples by category, including home offices for solo practitioners, for firms with employees, in loft areas, for working couples, and in separate buildings. Great running commentary and top-quality color photography--for home workers to whom money is truly no object. Barbara Jacobs

About this edition

• Publisher: Artisan
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1885183305
• ISBN 13: 9781885183309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256