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HOW TO CREATE A BASEMENT HOME OFFICE

July 8, 2019

Our house continues to feel larger as our kids leave the nest for full-time employment (daughter) and college (middle and youngest). Our friends ask if we plan to move (most of our friends are in similar life stages). With the Denver-metro area housing market, we cannot afford to downsize without spending more money in the neighborhoods we love. So we found a way to recreate a few rooms so we can work and live in our house. And, that is the back story on how to create abasement home office.

With my husband’s boisterous conference calls, I found a way to create a home office. I surprised him with an office using an existing desk and a few furniture tweaks!

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Thankfully, when we purchased our home (fourteen years ago) we fell in love with the home’s layout because we could grow old(er) in the flexible, multi-level home. #brownstoneinthesuburbs

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And, yet I did not want to share a work/office space with my husband. I told him we (me) each needed a floor between us when we both work from home.

How to create a home office in the basement

He has a leased space for his digital healthcare company. And, I was not ready to give up a child’s bedroom for a part-time home office.

I have my home office on the main level with views of our backyard. Deer and coyotes visit regularly. It’s a work in a very long progress phase.

My office was on hiatus with the arrival of our rescue puppy I shared on Instagram.

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For a while, my husband’s home office was in the closet. Seriously, it was seasonal storage for our ski gear and then his home office. It was basically a shelf in a closet.

He worked standing up before people paid alot of money to stand at a desk.

Needless to say, he was ready to come out of the closet and into the home office in the basement.

HOW TO CREATE A BASEMENT HOME OFFICE

To make this happen, we had to give up a dedicated movie/teen space jo make room for a small desk and a few office essentials. All while keeping it cozy. It helps that it has a dual-sided fireplace that we recently refaced with stack stone. I shared that weekend project here.

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I knew my husband loved his new space when I came home and he had organized all of his work files and shredded ten pounds of legal and accounting docs! He found these inexpensive storage boxes at Ikea.

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It had seating for the boys when their friends came over during the summer and vacation, and it gave my husband a big screen t.v. for weekends in the corner office.

This was such an easy change to make with an even larger impact for our daily routines.

Take a look around your house and see if there are spaces that may be ready for a new purpose!

And it is all hidden behind thes DIY barn doors.

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