Home Office Solutions: Creating a Space That Works for You [Paperback]

Lisa Kanarek (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2, 2004

There are more than 32 million home office households in America and the number continues to grow. Whether you work from home full-time, part-time, or after-hours, having a dedicated home office is a necessity. This information-packed guidebook offers solutions and layouts for carving out home offices that work with your space and boost your success. Home Office Solutions helps readers take charge of productivity, find their optimum work style, and organize space for efficiency and creativity. No matter the size of your home, there's always space for a home office. Practical advice is intermingled with sumptuous, creative, and hardworking office environments that don't detract, but rather complement your home. Home offices don't have to be eyesores that require the door always be kept shut tight. More important, if your office shares a room with another family activity, it need not be kept hidden behind a screen. The offices featured in Home Office Solutions are ones anyone would be proud to showcase centerstage in their home.

Editorial Reviews

Review

(Review of hardcover version of Home Office Solutions) Whether you're a veteran telecommuter or a post-Sept. 11 work-at-home refugee, this richly illustrated book will give you ideas on making the most of home work space. It helped me redo my home office, making it more efficient. --The Wall Street Journal

Looking for ways to carve a home office out of the space in your house? Check out Home Office Solutions: Creating a Space That Works for You by Lisa Kanarek. Kanarek, the founder of HomeOfficeLife.com, is an expert when it comes to everything from setting up your home office to making the transition from a corporate office to a home-based office. She's written several other books, including Everything's Organized, 101 Home Office Success Secrets, and Organizing Your Home Office for Success. (Sounds like she loves organizing, doesn't it? A woman after my own heart!) Home Office Solutions doesn't just tackle interior design and ergonomics though. Kanarek has also taken the time to discuss the pros and cons of working from home, whether you're a telecommuter, a freelancer, a home-based business operator or even sharing an office with someone else. I love how she touches on work-at-home parents, tons of technology that is of use to the home-based worker, and most of all, her FREEDOM home office plan. (You'll have to read the book to learn about that though. Trust me, it's the perfect plan to get you going. If you only read one page closely, make it that one!) The photos in this book are inspiring, though some were a bit too austere for my taste. One section that I found particularly helpful is the Working Home Offices chapter, which offers specific examples of how home-based workers have made their offices work for them, instead of against them. Touching on folks like an interior designer, web designers, a researcher, a writer and others, this chapter offers floor plans, photos, and focused lists of how and why to incorporate various aspects based on one's career path. --Small Biz Mentor (smallbizmentor.com)

About the Author

Lisa Kanarek is one of the nation's leading home office experts and the author of such books as Organizing Your Home Office for Success, Everything's Organized, and 101 Home Office Success Secrets. She is the founder of HomeOfficeLife, a firm that focuses on all aspects of working from home including office design, functionality and productivity. Kanarek has been a guest on several national programs including Good Morning America, CNN Financial News, CNBC, American Public Radio and Public Radio's Marketplace. Articles by and about Kanarek have appeared in hundreds of publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, Success, Money, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Entrepreneur and Cosmopolitan. Kanarek is a regular contributor to national and international publications and a columnist for Office Solutions and Practice Manager magazines.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Quarry Books (February 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592530613
• ISBN-13: 978-1592530618
• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.5 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,550,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lisa Kanarek is one of the nation's leading home office experts and the author of several books, including Working Naked: A guide to the bare essentials of home office life, Home Office Solutions, Organizing Your Home Office For Success and 101 Home Office Success Secrets. As one of only a few home office experts who is also an interior designer, Kanarek brings to every project her extensive home office knowledge and design expertise to create custom home offices throughout the country. She is the founder of HomeOfficeLife, a firm that advises corporations and individuals on all aspects of working from home and is founder of WorkingNaked.com.

Kanarek has been a guest on several national programs, including Good Morning America, CNN Financial News, CBS Up-to-the-Minute, CNBC, American Public Radio, Movie & a Makeover, and Public Radio's Marketplace. Kanarek has been featured--as an author and in interviews--in hundreds of publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, Success, Money, Entrepreneur, Cosmopolitan, Dwell, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Marie Claire and Redbook.