I love my home office! I really do. In fact, it’s one of my absolute favorite spaces in our house. Given the opportunity to design it however I wanted, I couldn’t help but to lean super feminine. And the pink walls might be my favorite part.
But I’m Planning Something Totally Different for House #7
When thinking about a floor plan for house number seven, I decided I don’t need a home office. As much as I love the look of this space, I don’t need a whole room dedicated as a work space for myself.
I mean, sure I love to sit at this desk and work, but the reality is working from a laptop means I can create an office space anywhere, and I often do……work from the living room sofa, or my bed…I can and do work outside of my home office regularly. In fact I’m currently writing this post from bed.
So when it came down to figuring out a floor plan, dedicating square footage solely for me to use as an office seemed like an unnecessary use of space for the way we actually live.
Instead, I’m planning to create a huge walk-in closet that will multi-function as both a dressing room and an office space. And call me crazy, but I’m pretty pumped about this idea! I think it’s going to be pretty great to work in a space I won’t feel the need to keep so tidy because it will be much more private to the house.
I’m trying to be as thoughtful and intentional about the floor plan of our next home as I can. And I just don’t want to have any square footage that isn’t used to its fullest potential.
So what do you think? Am I going to regret not having a dedicated office space in our next house? Do you think it’s weird to have a closet multi-function as an office?
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I think this is really smart of you! I don’t think it’s “weird” to have an office space in your closet; I don’t think it would have ever occurred to me to have that place pull double duty, but I dig it. It’s like a little Carmel Cave!