How to Choose the Best Desk for Your Home Office Space

If we’re going to spend 8+ hours at our desks every day, they might as well be fantastically decorated.It is easy to take a simple desk for granted in today’s work environment. They’re just another place to put your laptop, right? We respectfully disagree. A desk is as important to your workplace as a foundation is to your house. It acts as an anchor in a busy, dynamic space—a space in which you may spend more time than you do at home. Whether they sit in a private office, cubicle cluster, or co working, desks are an essential feature. The real question is—what is the perfect desk?

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Types of Desks
Before you decide on the best desk type, you need to determine your overall expectations for your desk. What are your needs? How will you use your desk? Do you use a computer? If so, is it a laptop or a desktop computer? All these considerations should be used to help you make the best purchase decision.

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Writing Desks
The writing desk has a large flat area and has the fewest storage options. It’s simple, streamlined design makes them one of the most versatile desk styles, as they can be placed in the middle of a room or along a wall.
​Best for: 
The writing desk is best suited for tasks such as paperwork or using laptops. Perfect for: laptops and writing. Suitable for any space, including smaller spaces. There is little or no storage space available.

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In playing the roles of both simple surface and conceptual construct and serving as both anchor and pivot point for your office, a desk is a complex piece that must somehow remain straightforward. This balance is even more important when filling a space with multiple iterations of the same piece. The right desk creates a unity between the users, offering everyone the same blank slate on which to draw their future. However inventive or close to perfect it may come, it is ultimately the ideas that one comes up with in their workplace that matters. A desk may only be a desk, but it may also be an adaptable foundation for individual innovation.

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