Home Office Design: Everything You Need to Know About Planning, Organizing, and Furnishing Your Work Space - Softcover

Zimmerman, Neal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471134333 ISBN 13: 9780471134336

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Synopsis

An idea–book focusing on the crucial issue of home–office planning and design—packed with affordable design solutions

More than 40 million Americans now work full– or part–time from a home office, and that number is expected to multiply well into the next century. While there are plenty of books on how to run and manage a home–based business, there have been few devoted exclusively to home office design. Architect Neal Zimmerman shows home–basers or soon–to–be home–basers how to create great home–office spaces suited to their individual needs, life–styles, and budgets. He covers everything from determining what kind of office would best suit individual needs to choosing the right workstation.

• Offers budget–minded solutions to integrating workspace and living space into a unified environment
• Extremely well–illustrated with floorplans, photographs, and other graphic illustrations

NEAL ZIMMERMAN, AIA (Hartford, Connecticut) is principal of Zimmerman Architects and an expert on commercial and residential office design. He writes and consults on various architectural subjects from his own home office.

About this title

About the Author

NEAL ZIMMERMAN, AIA, is Principal of Zimmerman Architects in West Hartford, Connecticut. He has written numerous articles on residential and commercial office design and served as editor of the Sunday Hartford Courant s "Residential Design by Connecticut Architects" series.

From the Back Cover

Your personal consultant for creating the perfect home work space Here is all the information you need to create a comfortable, efficient home office custom designed to meet your personal and professional needs. In this book, architect and home office design expert Neal Zimmerman shows you how to plan, design, and equip the home office that s right for you. He helps you decide when to do the work yourself and when to hire professionals; and his numerous floor plans, photos, and examples provide countless design ideas and solutions to virtually every problem you encounter. This practical and inspiring guide provides

• Clear, step–by–step instructions for planning, organizing, and designing your home office space
• Simple tools for controlling costs and ensuring that you get the results you want
• Extensive coverage of workstation design
• Hundreds of photos, floor plans, and drawings to inspire the imagination and solve problems
• A broad range of design options to fit every budget
• Surveys of equipment, furnishings, and accessories available to help make your home office a better organized, more comfortable place to work
• Guidelines for those who are considering extensive renovations
• A section on planning for the desktop video era
• Charts, diagrams, planning methods, and inventory sheets to streamline the planning and design process

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471134333
• ISBN 13: 9780471134336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206