Homeoffice Beginners Guide

Are you currently setting up your new home office? Here you will find all the latest tips, tricks and inspiration for setting it up quickly and chicly.

As we all know, the pandemic has caused major changes in the daily lives of many employees. Spontaneously, many of us had to find an alternative to the usual workplace. In most cases, this means: home office. Setting up a complete workspace might sound like a lot of effort, but we at GERMANIA see it as a perfect chance to design your personal office, shared home office or some other possibilities for relaxed working perfectly according to your own individual needs and wishes.

Below we describe step by step how you can design your dream office in no time.

  1 Step: Visualization

First and foremost, you should consider what your priorities are in your workplace and how much space you have available to use as you wish. Do you get the best work results in a sleek, minimalist and modern environment, or are colorful and creative spaces more in line with your work ethic?

Use these three questions as a guide:

  1.  Do I have a lot of space that I can fill with a number of decoration or am I looking for small and compact pieces of furniture that will let me use my limited work space efficiently?
  2. Will my color/decor vision match the light incidence and cut of my room? These affect the end result more than you might expect.
  3. What colors do I use for my furniture/walls - or do I prefer to stay on the safe side and use black and white as my base tones?

Some color suggestions/ideas for different room designs are:


 Noble/Modern:

Combination: blue walls and gray furniture with glass highlights


Fancy/Harmonious:

Gold tones combined with white furniture and wood accents 


Colorful/Playful:

Either combination 1. plain walls with colorful furniture or 2. playful shades on the walls (including primary colors, pastels, patterns such as marble, etc.) and plain furniture.

2. Write down exactly how you envision it or create a vision board that you can look at again and again for orientation during the creation process. If you don't know how to make a vision board or what to look for, don't worry. This is all about letting your creativity run free.

If you're looking for inspiration, we've included two different suggestions for the direction such a display can take. These pick up on harmonizing colors, furniture and lighting conditions.

Tip: Take photos of the room, the niche, the space that you have available and bring it with you on the vision board.


A: Angled desk: If you have a little more space available, multifunctional furniture with lots of storage space is your best friend. Here, for example, an angled desk or an angled desk with sideboard are really worth considering. This offers you a lot of space for PC, documents and coffee. This way you have almost everything around you and you don't have to take as many breaks, for example to search for documents. If you like it well organized, a "normal" runner desk with roll container would also be an ideal and space-saving alternative. And as an emergency solution, you can always use it as a kitchen table.


B: Rotary shoe cabinets are probably the most surprising alternative to a regular wall shelf that you can imagine. You think of shoes immediately when you think of storage, but you can store anything from office utensils to accessories in these cabinets. At the same time, they take up less space compared to regular wall shelves. Due to their narrow size, some of them can be mounted from both sides, so you can use them according to your individual ideas. Since the example shown here has the entire front mirrored, this would make the workspace in question appear larger.


C: Highboard: If individual but large highlights are just your thing, then consider using a chest of drawers or a highboard as storage space. So you can accommodate a decent number of orders, etc. well and still set a highlight in the room. Make sure that the depth and height of chests of drawers and the like fit your documents (e.g. files).


D: Rolling file cabinets: Even though many companies and professions are working more and more on the basis of digital data collection/processing, some documents still remain in physical form. To keep them as practical and organized as possible in close proximity, you can use rolling file cabinets. If these are color-coordinated with the core piece - the desk - in minimalist offices, for example, this provides an all-round effect that ties the furniture together.


3. On your mark, get set, DECORATE

Now that you have decided on your centerpieces, you can get to work on the highlights: it's time to decorate. Take the notes or vision board from the first step and use them as a basis for finding suitable decorations. Keep in mind that when decorating, size and color tones are especially important. For example, it looks chaotic and unharmonious if three different shades of gray are combined. Yes - gray can have several undertones. Especially when shopping online, color variations often occur. So either try to find out what the exact name of the shade(s) you want to use is or try to find it at your local stores.

Tip here: Many small retail stores offer consultations by phone, WhatsApp or a "window shop". Why not support the local retailers and stop by there when you get a chance (this also helps against the Corona blues).

We hope we could help you to design your dream office. Maybe we could inspire you at least a little bit. Have fun creating your very own home office! If you used our guide to help you, send us your result and we'll be happy to show it here on our blog or on our Instagram page @mygermania.