A Great Home Office - From Dream to Reality

3 Steps to an Awesome Home Office

By Randy Duermyer, About.com Guide

Once you’ve decided to start a home business, have secured a work from home job, or have decided it’s time to stop working at the kitchen table, you’ll need a place you can use as your home office.

With proper planning and some old-fashioned common sense, you can create a home office work environment where you can thrive while still projecting a professional image for your home business or work from home job.
The idea of planning and setting up a home office, or expanding or improving the space you already use as a home office, may seem daunting at first, but if done in an orderly process, happily working at home in a great home office space can be accomplished as easy as 1-2-3.
That brings me to the three basic steps to take your home office from a dream to reality:

1. Plan for Your Home Office Needs
2. Design Your Home Office Work Space
3. Set up Your Home Office and Get to Work

A Great Home Office Starts with a Plan
We’ve all heard the expression, “If you fail to plan, you should plan to fail.” That’s very true with many things in life, including setting up a home office.
Whether your home office work area is going to be a room of its own, an area in your basement, attic or garage, or even in a closet, properly planning the space that will act as your home office will save you considerable time, money and aggravation in the end. And, it will result in making your home office space all it can be.
You’ll need to understand both the tasks you’ll need to get your work accomplished as well as the environment in which those tasks can best be performed. Planning will give you a much better picture of how big of a budget you’ll need for your home office and where that budget will best be spent.