If you are, like me, sharing your home office with your bedroom, you may encounter similar problem like where to draw the line between rest and work? Your working space is only a few steps or just a crawl from your bed; it could cause considerable disruption to your spouse or your sleep. For some, your bed could be too tempting not to be missed while you are working and this may affect your work productivity. 

Another problem of sharing the bedroom with our home office is lack of space. With limited space I can’t afford bulky furniture in my bedroom, in fact, I literally do not have any decent storage for my files. I would also very much like a L-shape desk for my working space as one desk for my big monitor and another for doing paper work but this could be too overcrowding. 

In addition, my business partners and customers sometimes would pop over my home office for a quick chat as it was hard to find a quiet place for business discussion outside. However, I could see that they felt rather uncomfortable doing it in my home office cum bedroom as they felt they were intruding my privacy.

I thought this could be a problem I must bear with it for sometimes before I could afford a proper office. However, after watching this amazing video from Resource Furniture, it truly opened up my mind on how we can optimize limited space with creative space-saving furniture. You can click on the video below and start watching now.

They cleverly played with the design of furniture and called them “space savers”. Their furniture are designed for more than one use, for example turning a coffee table into a dining table or converting a sofa into a bed. I especially like the part where they can hide the bed either by flipping over and become a work space or turn it over to become a cabinet. As we know,the bed occupies the most space in the bedroom, once it is being hidden away; it creates so much extra space for working now.

I am excited by the idea as it could be one best way of solving my problems of sharing my bedroom with home office. Just imagine, every morning once I got out of bed, I could quickly transform my bedroom into home office instantly. A home office truly exists all by itself without any bed or other related bedroom accessories in sight. This will not only help to reduce the awkwardness of having business partners or customers when they are visiting me but also increase my business image. Moreover, I could hide away my work space at night while I sleep, giving me more peace when my computer is out of sight.

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I hope the video above will give you some ideas and inspiration of how to create or improve your home office. Having dual-purpose furniture will certainly help to increase your space and productivity but the cost of such space-saving furniture may not come cheap. Nevertheless, it definitely gives us a better idea of how we can optimize our limited space.

I wish you best of luck in creating or improving your home office. If you have other creative ideas of how to solve the problems of sharing your bedroom with your home office, please share it at the comment below.

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