Can You Create a Home Office?

Working from home has made dedicated workspace much more important to buyers.

The good news is that you do not necessarily need an entire spare bedroom to create one.

I have seen home offices fitted into some surprisingly small spaces: cupboards in hallways, areas underneath stairs, wardrobes, garden buildings and loft rooms.

One apartment I sold had a hallway cupboard containing a pull-out worktop, electrical sockets, a screen at eye level and storage. Close the cupboard and you would barely know the office was there.

In another property, part of a fitted wardrobe in the bedroom had been turned into a desk space.

The important thing is to look at the space you already have and ask whether somewhere could realistically be shown as a useful working area.

If you have a larger home and already use a spare bedroom as an office, you could consider adding a sofa bed so buyers can see that the room can serve two purposes...

A dedicated office may not always require another room - sometimes it simply requires showing buyers how intelligently the existing space can be used.