Home Office to Guest Room
Do you struggle to use a spare bedroom as your home office? Books, computer gear, and paper piled everywhere? Difficult to make space for your guests when they arrive last-minute? I have just the solution for you! Take a look at this San Francisco home office / bedroom before-and-after for inspiration.
In a contemporary urban condo, this workhorse office converts into a serene guest bedroom. Blue custom-designed cabinetry hides a convertible Murphy bed for a calm and welcoming space, matched with custom desk drawers.
‘Before’ photo, showing how the guest bed and all available surfaces are piled high with paperwork.
‘After’ view of the home office, showing a white wood and metal desk folded down, providing additional space for laying out papers, drawing, reading, or computing. You can fit two people into this office at the same time now!
In another ‘before’ view, you see the challenge of organizing and hiding all the paperwork and equipment needed for a home office. The stark walls could use some love as well.
Now artwork provides a beautiful place for the eye to land above the neatly organized built-in storage for the desk. The bed is so easy to pull down, you can do it with one hand.
Even the closet overflows with spare bedding in this ‘before’ photo, and the bed itself is surrounded by visible storage that looks busy and cramped. Not restful for your guests or peaceful for YOU to use.
After, storage is neat and tidy while still being accessible. The fold-down bedside table, here dressed with a vase of flowers, is a thoughtful touch for guests, as are the pull-down blackout window shades.
Here’s another project that’s a bedroom and a home office, with a smaller space for working within the room.
Before, this bedroom was crying out for design, and appropriate furniture.
After, this mid-century modern secretaire desk is perfect for writing letters, paying bills, or signing cards, and it folds up neatly so you can relax when it’s time for bed.
Do you have a guest bedroom that needs to double as a home office, but isn’t doing the business? Kimball Starr Interior Design creates contemporary residential spaces that guests and owners love! Contact her today for a complimentary consultation.
