When limited on rooms, it can be hard to pick between a useful guest space and a functioning home office – but why not have both? Creating a good guest room office comes down to just eight essential ...

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Hosting house guests can be a challenge under the best of circumstances. Having a well-designed, private space for them is a huge help, but many homeowners don’t have a dedicated room just for that.

Ever since reading Virginia Woolf's famous essay A Room of One's Own, I have viewed a woman's right to her own private space as both sacred and essential. In my current Los Angeles home, my office ...

Many people were quick to switch their guest room into a home office when they needed to start working from home (and thanks to Zoom, you can tell). Making the most of your livable space doesn't mean ...

“The original office was the quintessential spare room: bare white walls, no art, minimal window treatments, and no floor ...

Hosting occasional overnight guests is a fact of life for many, but not so many of us have the square footage to spare for a guest room that rarely gets used. Make your guest room work just as hard ...

They may be common, but office/guest room combos come with tricky challenges. “You don’t want guests to feel like they’re sleeping in an office, but you don’t want to feel like you’re working in a ...

Lauren is a writer and architectural designer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to being a writer at Forbes, she works as a freelance architectural designer specializing in residential ...

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