Setting Up a Home Office for Your Home Business
No matter what kind of home business you’ve established, you’ll need some type of home office for record keeping, appointment making, and correspondence. Whether this is a separate room or the corner of a room depends on space available. Also, it would concern the amount of space and privacy you need.
Don’t put off starting a home business if you haven’t an entire room for an office. Generally you can begin with part of another room, as long as children and pets won’t disrupt your organization. Sometimes that’s all you’ll need. For a number of years, I worked in a corner of a room.
Often office space and work room are combined, especially for a writer. My husband and I now have a room, about 9 x 12-feet with work counters built in around two sides, and space for a photocopier at one end, with three filing cabinets and two bookshelves on the remaining side. We’re building more shelves above the counters. Also, two windows break up one wall.
Here we conduct two home businesses, one of which is my writing/publishing business. When my husband had a carpentry business (which he had to give up for health reasons), this served as the office for it, too.
However, I often take my laptop and work at my writing in other parts of the house. I also have file cabinets for writing and research storage in another room.
Some basic items you might consider for your home office:
*Computer - a laptop is sufficient much of the time. Jim also has a desktop because he does newsletter, manual, and book production with it.
*Filing cabinet - at least one for organizing paperwork. Even though you may store much of your bookkeeping, invoicing, and other records on CDs and thumb drives, you do accumulate some paperwork.
*Answering machine - these often can be combined with fax, photocopier, and scanner nowadays.
*Photocopier - if you do much photocopying, especially those that need to be collated, a separate machine may be preferable.
Sometimes you also can find ideas for office organization and design by browsing through books and magazines. If you have ideas on organizing office space that works well for you, I’d enjoy having you share these tips.
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