Home Office Ideas

Looking for the right home office ideas to make your space ideal for work? Need some ideas to make it happen? Check out what Hometalk has to offer. Peruse the best, top, and newest projects on Hometalk today. Take a moment to watch an instructional video and learn some tips and tricks to make your home office meet your needs.

Home Office Ideas

Top Projects for Home Offices

Want to see some gorgeous home office ideas? Find your inspiration here.

Creative Storage in Dead Space Behind Door

My New Year's Weekend get organized project. One of my business resolutions was to create an attractive, and useful work space for my home business'. I have a Dispatch Service & DIY BLOG business. I was plagued by the wasted space on this giant wall behind our door.

Whimsy and Wood

Material of the Week: Command Hooks

This week, we’re excited to show you some ordinary and some super extra-ordinary uses for one of the most versatile materials we’ve featured to date: Material of the Week: Command hooks. If you’re a Command hook maven, or if you’d like to try them for the first time, check out all the uses that other Hometalkers have shared for these super strong adhesive wall hooks and organizers.

Hometalk Highlights

ECO Friendly Teachers' Gifts From My Wood Pile

My son has 5 teachers this year - that's a lot of end of the year gifts to purchase on a budget. I Tole painted them name plates for Christmas so what to do in June? Personalized pencil holders out of cedar logs. Hope this will inspire you!

4554290

Organize Those Cords!

Need to corral your cords? Here is an easy and inexpensive DIY for a box to hide the mess.

ThriftDee

Mortar And Copper Pencil Holder

This is a simple project that takes advantage of the look of concrete and is an easy way to add a touch of industrialism to your workspace.Click here to watch the theatrical adaptationhttps://youtu.be/IBOW8V7yoY8

Robin Lewis

Cord Control

I hate the way cords seem to take over an area, especially if you have a few chargers plugged into the same power strip. I thought long and hard about how to deal with this problem.

Kelleysgirl

How to Hide an Electrical Panel While Keeping an Easy Access

Hiding an electrical panel seems an easy enough task, but the common solutions are not always the most creative and aesthetic ones.This is a picture a the room as it was before. I must admit that it is almost embarrassing! The room you see there was a room with built-in furniture. Can you guess where the electrical panel is?

NeliDesign

License Plate Pencil Cup

I had a couple of old license plates hanging around and I figured we could put them to use somehow. These pencil cups come in handy. I actually use them in the shop. One holds pencils and utility knives, while the other holds my chisels. Go ahead and make one! See how we built this license plate pencil cup! Here we go...

ScrappyGeek.com

DIY Flip: Turn a $3 End Table Into A Beautiful Charging Station

I found an old wood table at goodwill for just $3 and knew it had potential. I am so happy with the way this table turned out! I had been looking for a nightstand that I could refinish and add some functionality, so when I found this wood table at Goodwill for a mere $2.99 (marked down 3 times!) I knew it would be perfect.

Carol Jones - AllMommyWants.com

Recycle A Brick Into Something Useful

I found an old brick at our rental house the other day when we were doing yard work. It looks like any old building brick but when I saw the holes, it reminded me of a project I saw where someone had recycled an air brick into a pencil holder. I have a gazillion markers, calligraphy pens, pencils and small paintbrushes and am always looking for unique ways to display them on my desk so that I have easy access to them. I'll show you how I turned this ordinary brick into a useful pen holder for my desk.

Diane and Dean DIY

Creative Storage in Dead Space Behind Door

Whimsy and Wood

Material of the Week: Command Hooks

Hometalk Highlights

ECO Friendly Teachers' Gifts From My Wood Pile

4554290

Organize Those Cords!

Need to corral your cords? Here is an easy and inexpensive DIY for a box to hide the mess.

ThriftDee

Mortar And Copper Pencil Holder

Robin Lewis

Cord Control

I hate the way cords seem to take over an area, especially if you have a few chargers plugged into the same power strip. I thought long and hard about how to deal with this problem.

Kelleysgirl

How to Hide an Electrical Panel While Keeping an Easy Access

NeliDesign

License Plate Pencil Cup

ScrappyGeek.com

DIY Flip: Turn a $3 End Table Into A Beautiful Charging Station

Carol Jones - AllMommyWants.com

Recycle A Brick Into Something Useful

Diane and Dean DIY

DIY Home Office Videos

Watch these videos to find ideas and whip your home office into shape.

DIY The Ship Desk Organizer

Today we'll show you ideas in nautical style to make your working place more comfortable. The pretty practical holders we are going to show will help you to organize you stationery. Let’s start with a smart ship. There will be a few containers on board to keep your school supplies and small stuff.

Troom Troom

Glass Jar Makeover

Organize your supplies with jars and your favorite coloring book pages!

Mark Montano

DIY Filing Cabinet Makeover

I’m working on a budget. I got these filing cabinets from Habitat for Humanity ReStore for a couple bucks and wanted to repurpose them to make my desk. I knew I wanted to use card pull label holders because not only do I love the way they look on furniture, I also love being organized!

Laci Jane

Hometalkers' Favorite DIY Home Office Projects

We've gathered our best home office projects. Find what you've been looking for.

Install a USB Outlet Cover in a Snap!

We came across this neat product called SnapPower, which adds a USB port to an outlet cover. This seemed like a great solution for a bedroom, kitchen, or anywhere you need to charge your phone, tablet, camera, and more!Before we discovered this product, the only way to add a USB was to completely remove the existing outlet and wire in a new USB compatible one. This one requires no wiring! We ordered one on Amazon to give it a try. It really is a fast way to add some tech to your home!

Mother Daughter Projects

How to Hide a Printer

Electronics can be eye sores in any home, but this DIY solves the problem of a big printer messing with your home decor! Instead of keeping your big ugly printer out in plain sight, you can hide it in a fashionable basket and keep it out in the open on a bookshelf. Honestly, the hardest part of this project is finding the right basket to hold your printer (we found ours at HomeGoods).

The DIY Playbook

How to Hide Messy Cords With Pegboard

My home office is important to me. I work in there nearly every day as a blogger. But, the cords under my desk were definitely very organized, and as an organizing blogger that bothered me! I came up with a clever solution to hide them, but make them totally accessible and organized. For more details on how I did it, go to the link at the bottom of the post. homeoffice

Organizing Made Fun-Becky Barnfather

DIY Charging Station

Are you tired of the mess of phones and gadgets charging in your home? Ours were all over the kitchen counter and I couldn't handle it anymore. I did some research and found Jessica's post on Four Generations One Roof where she used a breadbox to keep her charging clutter contained. With our modified version we charge up to 5 devices at once without having power cords everywhere!

Amy McGarity

Make Pen And Pencil Holders From Recycled Tin Cans

Recycled tin cans are the perfect size to contain pens, pencils, markers and other office supplies. There are so many ways to design a recycled tin can into holders. I've made a lot of woven ribbon items lately and thought, why not try it on a tin can. I have too many pens and other writing and drawing instruments and really need something to store them in instead of my usual ziplock bags.

Gail@Purple Hues and Me

Wall Pockets From 3 Ring Binders

Wall mounted file pockets are expensive. We’ll, we’ve found a way to make super cheap & creative wall mounted holders using 3 ring binders! The pockets can be used to organize or hold all types of things but we created 7 DIFFERENT PRINTABLES so they can be used as a homework helper. COMPLETE DETAILS, PHOTOS & PRINTABLES ON OUR SITE HERE

Nancy at Craft Your Happiness

Install a USB Outlet Cover in a Snap!

Mother Daughter Projects

How to Hide a Printer

The DIY Playbook

How to Hide Messy Cords With Pegboard

Organizing Made Fun-Becky Barnfather

DIY Charging Station

Amy McGarity

Make Pen And Pencil Holders From Recycled Tin Cans

Gail@Purple Hues and Me

Wall Pockets From 3 Ring Binders

Nancy at Craft Your Happiness

Popular Home Office Discussions

Our discussion board on home office ideas is a place to learn from other Hometalkers.

How do I create an office space?

/> Bianca Canary Powell

I live in a small two-bedroom apartment my husband publishes a magazine so right when you walk in the door I have a table set up with his computer on it need something that looks nice when people walk in that's the first thing they see

View discussion

How to build a home gym?

/> Maryan Rodriguez

View discussion

How do I turn a bland basement in a retro office?

/> EVE

View discussion

How do I update my home office?

/> Ann

View discussion

New Home Office Projects

Here are some trendy ideas for what people are doing in the world of home offices.

Organizing Electronic Cords- It’s the Little Things

Organizing electronic cords can often be that last little detail that finally makes the room feel finished. If you feel you are an organized person, and you really want to polish your efforts, cords are something to pay attention to.

Darla DeMorrow

Cut the Cord Clutter!

With all the electronics we have these days, cords can be a challenge! I was tired of looking at this mess, but really had no place to store all the chargers when they weren't in use.

Gail--My Repurposed Life

How to Hide Desk Cords

We recently added a little office nook to our master bedroom. And since it's tucked away in a space that is supposed to be a peaceful retreat, I didn't want it to look messy and disorganized. But the computer, lamp, and electronic cords were a bit of an eyesore at our minimal desk. So I took action to get those cords neat and tidy. Here's how I did just that.

The DIY Playbook

Upcycled Desk Organizer Using Tin Cans

I have a true confession. I’m a hoarder of tin cans. The worst part? I haven’t done anything with them…. well until now :) I’ve been wanting to create some easy {and free} storage organizers for a while, and after building our new copper pipe desk I figured it was about time I made a new organizer to go on it. I guess building a new desk was just the motivation I needed. I had everything needed for this project, making it cost $0, woo-hoo! You can view the full post on my blog, UpcycledTreasures.com

Katie Nathey

How to Hide the TV Wires

I'm a little but neurotic about wires. I hate seeing them all tangled up on the floor around the furniture. Between the TV, cable box, DVD player and Wii...we have a LOT of cables around our media cabinet. I used a simple method to keep them from being too visible from the front and sides of the cabinet. I used a combo of Command hooks, hot glue, and electrical tape. It still looks like a mess behind the cabinet, but only the wall can see that. ;)