Top design experts like Sergio Molho of WSDG and Nate Berkus talk everything from location to wiring for optimizing your WFH areas.
Making the most of your office hours looks quite a bit different when you’re clocking in a short stroll from your bedroom, which has become the norm, at least part of the time, for many professionals. With the usual distractions—kids, pets, the regular household buzz—and spaces built before the ubiquity of telecommuting, many are still playing catch-up to optimize their home for productivity, but without sacrificing a room to resemble an I.T. hub. Country Singer Zac Brown Seeks $3.
What you don’t want to see is a tangle of wires. To avoid unseemly cords stretched across the room, Budd has designed desks that run the power cable down the inside of the leg of the desk and directly into a floor outlet. This is where antique pieces prove problematic: It’s hard to hide much tech inside without retrofitting, which means you might want to consider whether it’s still the right workspace for your modern job.
“One hundred percent of our clients want tech,” says London-based designer Katharine Pooley, who has designed castles, superyachts, and jets for royalty around the world. “They’re used to it, and they want it done better.” This means seamlessly integrating the technology in such a way that “none of our desks have computers or wires on them anymore—everything’s wireless, everything’s seamless.
Silva recommends Humanscale’s Freedom chair for a sleek, self-adjusting seat that adapts to the user’s movement rather than the other way around. “The background of a video call has become a key element of design,” explains Hoppen, who designed Sydney’s lavish Sirius Building, while Berkus notes it has been “a consideration for every project in the last three years—we have conversations about camera and Zoom angles.
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