Make home whole with a study room
Nov 10, 2006
A study room in your house? Why not? Yes, friends and workmates may have cautioned you against taking back work from office to your home, not knowing that if well-handled it can be an exciting venture.
By Jude Katende
A study room in your house? Why not? Yes, friends and workmates may have cautioned you against taking back work from office to your home, not knowing that if well-handled it can be an exciting venture.
You could actually have two offices, one at home and the official one at the work-place. I don’t really see it as shifting work from office to home, but as a way of limiting your work and meeting deadlines.
It is important to always cut down on the number of things you are tasked with doing. Having a study room at home could help in reducing the workload and besides you may use the same room for reading novels, magazines or newspapers.
Some people have these days actually found it cost-effective in using their homes as their only offices. Such people only visit the city when necessary, but will certainly have everything done from home.
Architectural drawings, fine art and others that could require lots of space may be challenging for people who have bedrooms for study rooms.
When building a new house, it would be important to leave some space for a study room. But for those who are already staying in houses without these vital rooms could create some space either in the sitting room, dining area or even bedroom as long as it does not lure you to sleep.
Working at home one needs to confine oneself to a strict timetable.
Shopping places like Game store at Lugogo and many stationery outlets have stocked work-stations of all sizes and shapes. These could help in positioning your computer in a suitable area without making your home look stuffy. In addition to the work unit, you could also have a mini library.
For the latter, many furniture marts have wooden cabinets and bookshelves that could be used to store books and magazines. There are many in Nsambya along Gaba road, others are in Ntinda and Bwaise among other places. Nina Interiors, Game, Damanico, Malaysia Furnishings, Beautiful Living, Tunakopesha among others also have such cabinets.
Preferring to remain anonymous, a sales lady at Nina Interiors said with their whole range of workstations and office ware, it is up to the client to choose something that would fit within the available space at home.
At Nina Interiors, there are small and big work-stations ranging from sh140,000 to sh210,000. There are also swinging chairs from sh200,000. Bookshelves range from sh285,000 to sh1m, depending on size, and finishing including detachable ones.
A study lamp by one’s side is very vital. One could also make do with a rechargeable torch just in case of a power black-out. If one can afford a generator, an inverter or solar panel to run the PC, the better.
Working at home could be fun, especially for those do-it-your self-kind of tasks that are computer-aided.
A study room in your house? Why not? Yes, friends and workmates may have cautioned you against taking back work from office to your home, not knowing that if well-handled it can be an exciting venture.
You could actually have two offices, one at home and the official one at the work-place. I don’t really see it as shifting work from office to home, but as a way of limiting your work and meeting deadlines.
It is important to always cut down on the number of things you are tasked with doing. Having a study room at home could help in reducing the workload and besides you may use the same room for reading novels, magazines or newspapers.
Some people have these days actually found it cost-effective in using their homes as their only offices. Such people only visit the city when necessary, but will certainly have everything done from home.
Architectural drawings, fine art and others that could require lots of space may be challenging for people who have bedrooms for study rooms.
When building a new house, it would be important to leave some space for a study room. But for those who are already staying in houses without these vital rooms could create some space either in the sitting room, dining area or even bedroom as long as it does not lure you to sleep.
Working at home one needs to confine oneself to a strict timetable.
Shopping places like Game store at Lugogo and many stationery outlets have stocked work-stations of all sizes and shapes. These could help in positioning your computer in a suitable area without making your home look stuffy. In addition to the work unit, you could also have a mini library.
For the latter, many furniture marts have wooden cabinets and bookshelves that could be used to store books and magazines. There are many in Nsambya along Gaba road, others are in Ntinda and Bwaise among other places. Nina Interiors, Game, Damanico, Malaysia Furnishings, Beautiful Living, Tunakopesha among others also have such cabinets.
Preferring to remain anonymous, a sales lady at Nina Interiors said with their whole range of workstations and office ware, it is up to the client to choose something that would fit within the available space at home.
At Nina Interiors, there are small and big work-stations ranging from sh140,000 to sh210,000. There are also swinging chairs from sh200,000. Bookshelves range from sh285,000 to sh1m, depending on size, and finishing including detachable ones.
A study lamp by one’s side is very vital. One could also make do with a rechargeable torch just in case of a power black-out. If one can afford a generator, an inverter or solar panel to run the PC, the better.
Working at home could be fun, especially for those do-it-your self-kind of tasks that are computer-aided.