The Home Office

The hubby is hoping to make a home office somewhere in the house. I'm totally on board with this plan; it was great for him to have a real working space at the old house. He often ended up working on the couch in the living room, but it's good for him to have a room that is his own space.

His only requests:
A huge desk against the wall. Curved corner desk would be good.
Whiteboard.

Not many demands! But still many things to consider.

We are leaning towards a bedroom being the office. If we do this, should we include a snacks-and-drinks solution, since the kitchen will be far away?

What other functions the room should have? Is it just an office or should we incorporate a day bed (the way we did in our previous home), or some other guest-room qualities? We don't really need all 4 bedrooms to behave as bedrooms right now, so we have a lot of flexibility there.

Is this a one-person or a two-person office? This obviously makes a difference in how we arrange the room. I don't need an office. . . I would probably just want a comfy chair for reading in. I like the arrangement of this little vignette (not the colors). I'd totally sit in this chair:


The hubby doesn't like glare on his computer monitor, so he always ends up closing the shades. How should this be taken into account? Maybe we choose to put him in the darker bedroom since he doesn't need light?Right now we are considering the above bedroom for home-office use. It has very nice light (one of only two south-facing windows in the house). Will it be wasted on my cave-dweller? ;)

Anyway, I will be thinking about this more in the future. Here is an inspirational picture:

We mostly like the colors. Hubby was quick to point out that the desk and the dog are both much too small.