Perfect for paperwork
If a highly polished study could bring forth highly polished prose, then this is place to work. The oak paneled study makes reading, writing and research a pleasure with a little home improvement and redecorating the home design. A skylight illuminate the room during the day: reading lights turn on at night. Bookcases have both cabinets and shelves for storage. Architect: Harry Rodda.
Shoehorned into a long narrow area this study takes advantage of every possible inch of storage space. Open shelves hold books, while drawers under bench keep papers organized. Located in a little used passageway the study is off the game and video rooms that appear on pages before. Architect: Paul Zimmerman.
Take a slice from the living room
And turn it into a study. The open design of the house didn’t provide a private space for a study. So the architect took a narrow slice off the living room and enclosed it with a high room divider. Result a warm, pleasant place to work that’s schedule but not totally isolated. Architect: George Cody.
It used to be a planter box
The skylight over head used to bring light to plants; now it brightens to a work area. Desperate for a command center to organize her work, the owner replace the planter box with a large table. Now she can keep track off the rest of the household form her desk in the main hallway suspended light supplements the skylight. Crisp colored modern prints decorate the wall on the other side of the staircase. Architect: Robert C Peterson.
Two steps up from the living room and you are in an open library. Building a platform is a good way to separate a library area from other parts of the room without building a wall. By being open the library and living areas borrow space from each other.
