Working From Home: Practical Furniture Ideas

Furnishing a home office is no easy feat. Purely ergonomic pieces can feel out of place in a home, while pieces designed without an eye for comfort and functionality can quickly lose their luster. So how do you strike the balance between form and function? As one of the internet’s most chic and unique used office furniture stores, we have a few tricks up our sleeve! Read on for our best practical work-from-home furniture tips!

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Desk

While there’s no shortage of desks on the market, the reality is that many of them weren’t designed with the modern nine-to-fiver work-from-homer in mind. Writing desks like secretary desks and rolltop desks were often intended to only be used for a few hours at a time. (You know, to pen a letter — not take endless video calls). For those pulling full days at their home desk, ample space to host a laptop, dual monitors and break out a pen and paper, if needed, is most ideal. One option to consider? A dining table. Simple, sleek dining tables such as Parsons dining tables or Saarinen pedestal dining tables are perfect for housing electronic equipment, plus, most are large enough to offer extra space for more analog tasks like note-taking.

Desk Chair

For style-seekers, choosing a home office chair can rank high among life’s most menial tasks. “Ergonomically chic” isn’t a catchphrase you exactly hear on the street, and the used furniture stores full of tricked-out space-style seats don’t exactly inspire much confidence, either. Thankfully, our vintage pedigree means that we have access to some of design’s greatest desk chairs of all time. Knoll’s office chairs, which include Eero Saarinen’s Executive Chair and Charles Pollock’s Executive Chair, as well as Herman Miller’s Eames Aluminum Group Chair, are all form-meets-function heroes. Scout them out in colors ranging from neutrals to eye-catching brights to add some joie de vivre to the workday.

Lounge chair or chaise

Whether it’s a lounge chair or a chaise, a relaxing seat to take an off-camera video call or tackle email writing, can help break up the monotony of the day. Consider integrating a lounge chair with professional polish, such as an Eames Lounge chair. For something more cocooning that will cut noise similar to a library study corral, consider a modern wingback such as Arne Jacobsen’s Egg Chair or Hans Wegner’s Papa Bear chair. For something more accessible, a simple chaise lounge is relatively easy to procure and allows you to type on a laptop with legs outstretched.