How To Make My Bedroom A Work From Home Space

We’ve got to be upfront here! We don’t recommend situating your home office in your bedroom unless you have no other options.

It’s much harder to separate your work life and home life when you work out of your bedroom. And that can kill one of the biggest benefits of home working – the freedom to find a better work-life balance.

However, if your bedroom is all the home office space that you’re going to get – this is how to set up your bedroom space so that you have space to work and live in maximum comfort.

How To Create A Home Office Space In Your Bedroom

Create Two Zones

Ideally, you’re going to want your bedroom-based home office to have its own space away from the “relaxation” part of your bedroom.

This will let you separate work and play more easily at the end of the day.

You don’t have to formally partition the room but we’d recommend, at least, hanging up a curtain to create “bedroom space” and “home office space”.

While you do this, you want to look at the home office side of things and try and fill it with natural light if possible as it will keep you feeling fresh while you work.

And while you’re there, you might want to think about investing in some “task lighting“, so you can reduce the glare on your screen and protect your eyes in the office.

Opt For A Flexible Desk

You don’t need a standing office desk to stay fit (in fact, we looked into this and weren’t convinced it makes much of a difference when it comes to calories burned) but this kind of desk is often much easier to run flat up against a wall or to push into storage behind the bed when you’re sleeping at night.

Whatever, you opt for in terms of a desk, you should look for one that will fold up when it’s not in use. The frees up a lot of the room, makes for much easier storage, and helps to delineate when working from home (wfh) comes to an end (you’ve put the desk away) and your real life begins.

Take a look at these great standing desks for home working if you want some ideas.

Don’t Neglect Your Bed

It’s all too easy for these office ideas to end up destroying your rest space. First and foremost, this is your bedroom.

That means you want the biggest piece of furniture in the room, and the most comfortable, to be your bed.

We’d encourage you to opt for a bed that you can raise and lower, if at all possible, because this allows you to change up the shape of the room and make it feel more like an office during work time, and more like your bedroom out of work time.

Don’t forget, you will spend about one-third of your life sleeping, you deserve a good night’s sleep.

Then Get Serious About A Chair

There is nothing more important in your office than your chair. You’re going to be spending nearly as much time in it as you will in your bed.

If you want some ideas for styles of office chairs, we’ve got you covered, we also have a great list of sustainable home office desk chairs that will look great in any room.

Pay extra attention to the lumbar support and ensure that whatever you choose to sit on, that it supports your back in a comfortable and useful manner.

And ideally, it should look good with your desk, table and up against the wall too.

Then Declutter

Bedrooms are places that we spend a lot of time and as such, they tend to accumulate a ton of clutter.

Invest some time in decluttering before you turn it into your dual-purpose office space.

Ideas for this include getting rid of anything extraneous on the wall, clearing out any paperwork, etc. that you don’t need, and just giving everything a dust and a tidy.

A tidy workspace leads to a tidy mind and that will make it easier to be productive as you’re hunched over your computer.

Consider A Dedicated Internet Connection

It can also pay to ensure that you have buzzing fast Internet for your work and you should consider, at least, investing in a private line.

We’d still urge you not to set up an office in your bedroom, but if you have no choice, you can take real steps to make it a pleasant and effective place to work from.

The real key is trying to create a place of harmony where work can take place, but where you can also switch off when the working day is done.