One of the most frequently asked questions is how to make your own space inside a family home. This is usually being asked by an adult who can’t concentrate on the bills, their craft hobby, or who needs an actual space for work related meetings. Whether to choose corner sofas or two independent sofas to fill a larger living room would be tons easier to address. Alas, this must be why so few inquire, because personal space in a family home can seem unobtainable.

Most will not have an entire room to dedicate to their own interests or pursuits. They will instead be dealing with combo spaces, what some regard the most difficult of all designs. But relax, it need not be a nightmare.

Take the following into consideration: If you will not be receiving visitors in the space, then it can face a wall. Just a spacious desk placed against a wall might be enough. However, if you will meet with clients or employers, the desk should face the door and be placed in between you and those you are conferencing with.

So already you know space is being sucked up, but also need to be able to use this as a dual area. Here is my next bit of advice, if you are sharing square footage with a guestroom then avoid a full sized bed at all costs. There is nothing professional about holding meetings in a room with a four-poster bed, talk about elephant in the room. Or, heavens forbid you have no choice but to have clients sit on the bed. How is anyone supposed to take you and your work seriously when it feels more like a rendezvous in a hotel room than an office? Get a sofa bed and then you will have appropriate and respectable additional seating.