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Compact Living - Home Office
As our homes become our workplaces too, the need for a compact home office has never been greater. As experts in compact living, we offer a wide range of innovative home office solutions to help you create a flexible, versatile space to work but with a small and compact footprint.
A space to work
Whether you’re looking for a wall or folding desk, a home office room divider, or a compact ergonomic desk to prevent a sore back, we have all the small home office ideas you need. To shape our home office collection, we asked 2,000 homeworkers what makes the perfect work-from-home space, so you’ll find solutions that make the 9-5 that little bit easier.
Featured Products
Sit and stand desks
If you’re looking for a compact and stylish home office desk, you need JobTisch. As well as being available in 78 colour combinations to create a workspace that complements your home interior, JobTisch is ergonomically designed and height-adjustable for sit or stand working. With almost three quarters of homeworkers saying a height-adjustable desk was important to good home office design, JobTisch is the work colleague you want in your team.
Sliding Door Gear
In our survey, 83% of homeworkers wanted to hide away their desk at the end of the day. In a compact home where spaces have multiple functions, use sliding door gears to shut off your home working space come 5.30pm, or use our clever furniture runners to create a flexible desk space that also doubles as a kitchen worktop or table.
Lighting for your workspace
When asked to describe the perfect home office, 89% of homeworkers said good lighting was key. In our Loox range of LED lighting, you’ll find flexible, modular solutions that are ideal for the compact home office. Integrated into furniture, with a small footprint, Loox can create the right lighting scheme for productivity that adapts throughout the day.
Tidy desk, tidy mind
A clutter-free space is essential when working from home, but even more so in the compact home office. Our range of home office cable management solutions include hidden power sockets and built in phone charging points for drawers, for the ultimate in home office organisation.
Bespoke Solutions
Need a bespoke solution for your compact home office? Many Häfele UK product can be tailored for your needs using Häfele Service+ Customised. Just visit our Häfele Service Plus Customised page for more details.
3 steps to creating the perfect compact home office
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| Are you planning to work from home for the foreseeable future, or is it just a temporary or hybrid working solution that you need? In our home office gallery, you’ll find a range of creative compact home office solutions that range from a permanent home office set-up or a temporary desk space for occasional home working. |
Think about where you’ll position your home office space and how the light changes throughout the day. Good lighting is key to productivity and to prevent eye strain, so think about lighting early on in your plans, not at the end. |
Whether you’re making the noise or you need to shut off from interruptions elsewhere in the house, don’t forget about noise and acoustics when planning your compact workspace. Over 80% of respondents in our home office survey said a quiet workspace was key. |
Home Office Survey Results 2021
In 2021, Häfele undertook research to understand more about the UK’s attitudes towards homeworking . The message is clear – more people will work from home and build permanent home office space in their living environments. Read more about the research and the results here.
3 questions and answers around Compact Home Office Design
| Q | What makes a good home office? |
| A | We asked 2,000 people that exact question! Find out what these regular homeworkers said and use it as inspiration for your compact home office design. |
| Q | I’d like to create a broken plan home office design. How can I do that? |
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Broken plan is a space that is split into zones using levels and semi-permanent structures to create separate areas. These structures can take many forms including custom-built bookcases, semi-open partitions or cabinetry that can be used to house hidden home offices, as well as storage or utility rooms. In a compact home, broken plan living is a great way to create multipurpose furniture, as well as make distinct areas for working and living. Products like our bespoke timber drawers, Smartcube shelving, and Matrix drawers can be used to build the ideal broken plan home office solution. |
| Q | Could I turn a wardrobe or closet into a home office? |
| A | Absolutely – the ‘cloffice’ is proving a very popular way of combining spaces when working with a tight floorplan. A narrow desk like JobTisch would be perfect for a cloffice, especially when combined with a sliding door solution using our Hawa or Slido range for maximum space but a limited footprint. |
