Falcon Windows: Home is where the office is…
Home improvement top tips for the creation of home offices from Falcon Windows Ipswich.
At Falcon Windows, we appreciate that space in your home is always at a premium. It’s why we make it our business to help you make your home as light, bright, secure, relaxing, cosy and comfortable as possible with great windows, doors and conservatories, so you can enjoy your property to the full - however great or small it may be.
But no doubt your space at home has had to work overtime during recent months. Maybe your kitchen table has turned from part-time homework station to day-long school room? Perhaps the spare room, conservatory, even shed or outbuilding in working-wifi or data distance has been party to video conference calls, uploading, downloading and all kinds of virtual office activity?
Home Office Solutions from Falcon Windows Suffolk & Essex
Recently temporary, make-shift home offices have come in all shapes and sizes. But they’ve also made many people wish to re-evaluate their in-house workspace and consider the alternatives.
What more long-term, more comfortable and less intrusive options might be viable? Now, that’s where Falcon Windows home improvements can help.
Tip 1 - Wherever I lay my laptop, that’s my home (office) …
It might be cosy to curl up on the bed and stream a film on the laptop, but when it comes to work on the computer, it’s important that it doesn’t invade every part of your home space. Keeping work- spaces and downtime spaces different can help maintain a healthy life-work balance.
A designated workstation, study area or office room is a good move and with a bit of thinking outside the box, you definitely don’t have to consider moving - or moving too much furniture even - to achieve it.
Could your conservatory become a year-round room?
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Tip 2 - Reasons to be cheerful - Enjoy your home workspace
You’ll need your home office or workstation to be a comfortable space. But as well as a desk, there are other things to consider. Can it be warm enough, too warm or maybe drafty? Is there natural light? Good ventilation? Are there adequate electricity sockets?
Consider the lighting options in place – and what’s the network / broadband / wifi coverage like? If there is an element of privacy required for phone calls and video conferencing, is that going to work?
Too many questions? Don’t worry, you’ll be surprised how often the team at Falcon Windows have the answers.
Drafty windows? Soon sorted.
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Need to make one space into two?
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Tip 3 - Bright ideas
Natural light is really important even if the nature of your work means you’ll be at a computer screen most of the day. Try to choose a workspace where there is a good-sized window or rooflight.
If your window, patio door or velux window are in good condition, but could do with some maintenance or cleaning support, the Falcon Maintenance division can help.
If misted windows are impeding the light or making the space feel tired and uninviting, we can help there too – with our glass replacement service, loving your double-glazed windows back to life at a fraction of the cost of repair.
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Tip 4 - Shedding light on the matter
Don’t dismiss outbuildings. If served with power for your office gear and gadgets, many outbuildings, even humble sheds can be easily converted into workspaces, although some may be more useable year-round than others.
External cladding like the colourful Hardie Plank weatherboarding range fitted professionally by Falcon Windows can immediately transform a lack-lustre outbuilding into a smart-looking, I-mean-business sort of space from the outside.
If you are considering converting an older-style, stand-alone garage building and the lack of windows is an issue, then why not think about windows in the roof. Roof lanterns will soon flood any space with light and are a great way of transforming a flat-roof or conservatory warm roof into a great feature with real potential for some blue-sky thinking.
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Tip 5 - More than just a breath of fresh air
Only room for a small window near your workspace? Want to make the most of the light and the fresh air it can deliver, or perhaps even the view?
Aluminium framed windows can have robust, super-slim lines and immediately introduce an element of style into even the smallest of spaces. They come in a massive range of colours too, so you can be creative and incorporate them into the design of your internal space. Calm colours are good for home-working environments, but you might enjoy having your window frames in professional slick grey, or a stronger accent colour perhaps?
With a choice of opening types, you can be sure to access the level of comfortable ventilation your work area will need. Perhaps fold-back bi-folding windows or doors appeal, to make even more of the space and really bring the outside in? Remember, always look on the bright side - if your workstation window looks out onto a brick wall, what about decorating with an evergreen or flowering creeping plant, with a bit of garden art or even a mural?
Think you’ll need blinds for your windows, but don’t want to risk them blowing about when the window or bi-folding door is open? At Falcon Windows, we can advise on all sorts of options for windows, doors and conservatory blinds including integral Venetian blinds.
Narrow window frames – more light, more style
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Want to bring the outside in?
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Dust-free integral blinds – a chic and clean solution
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Tip 6 - Get out in the Garden
Garden rooms, orangeries, loggias – built on to your property or potentially stand alone, this could be the ultimate solution you’ve been looking for. Enjoy an extra year-round roofed gallery room with all mod cons subtly tucked away in its pillars and pelmets. Choose an aluminium orangery or smart loggia and include bi-folding doors which fold back to provide one inspiring open vista onto your garden space.
Combining brick or wood and glass, orangeries give the feeling of an extension whilst adding the light usually only gained from a conservatory. Loggias replace brick piers with super-insulated loggia columns which are more thermally efficient than brick and can accommodate electric panel radiant heaters. They are both slick solutions which can accommodate stylish roof lanterns with effective ventilation systems and have high-performance glazing which manages glare and solar heat gain.
Ask the Falcon Group about easy-build systemised versions of an atrium-style orangery buildings, featuring a flat roof around the perimeter with a range of designs and colours and its other garden room options.
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And finally – Home Office Wish List
- Natural light, with windows and doors fully functioning – no misted double-glazing, broken stays or handles.
- Warm and comfortable (underfloor heating or mirror-wall radiators if space is tight?)
- Window blinds or appropriate curtaining
- Lighting – warm lighting and focused lighting (anglepoise or clip-on lamps)
- Timber flooring – best for office chairs with castors
- Open plan set-ups separated into areas by interior design
- Calm colours when it comes to decor
- Power and Wifi with accessible sockets / network points
- Desk - at right height and where computer screens can avoid light glare
- Storage – never enough! – take over the spare room and consider swapping the conventional bed for fold-down one integral to built-in storage to make it really feel like a office
- Pinboards and all that paraphernalia
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