Setting up Your Home Office: Tips, Products, and Ideas

Size: 50D x 100.1W x 74.2H centimeters

With five different colours to appeal to most tastes, the Foxemart computer desk is lightweight, has adjustable leg pads, extra fixed steel brackets and a triangular junction designed to ensure more stability, and accommodate uneven floors, which also allows to support heavy weights and many appliances.

Easy to set up, you just need to attach the legs and struts quickly to use it. Good sized and well made, the desk is made of a thick MDF with scratch-resistant, anti-collision and waterproof design, protecting consequentially the office desk surface from the daily wear if eventually there are any water or coffee spills.

Modern and versatile, this computer table can suit many spaces (large or small sized). However, in case you also need a screen or printer, this is possibly not your right choice since the product won’t have enough space for everything.

Moreover, the manufacturer provides customer support after the purchase, so if you have any problem with the desk, you can contact Foxemart to get their assistance within 24 hours.

Size: 54.9D x 119.9W x 77H centimeters

The Rolanstar desk comes in two colours: black and rustic brown. Versatile, it comes with a wooden drawer to store everything needed, from paperwork to pens, headphones, mousepad, glasses, and other items, making it easy to access all your daily stuff.

With a retro industrial design of rustic veneer finish and metal frame, the desk not only shows an unique look but also features (engineered wood and metal) that guarantee durability and stability. With a neutral colour scheme and simple design, this computer desk matches a variety of decor styles.

Easy to assemble, the product has four adjustable feet designed for easy leveling on uneven floors and protect floors from scratches, and comes with four corner protectors provided to cover the table corners. It’s two shelves are also great to have things at an easy reach while keeping everything organized.

Size: 61D x 24W x 28H centimeters

The SHW Standing Desk can be a good choice for people who like to work both standing and sitting from time to time.

Although with a compact surface, the product is well done and designed to make your life easier during a home office, from 28″ to 46″ (71.1 cm to 116.8 cm.) The desk comes with two hanging hooks, cable management organizer and a multi-purposed center drawer – differentials that make your life easier. Regarding the mobility, its fluid design allows you to easily move the desk space from one place to another, with four lockable wheels.

Affordable, this desk is perfect for normal everyday use. Due to the small-to-medium workspace, this is not the ideal desk if you have multiple devices. But it is wide enough to accommodate two monitors on the smaller end, a keyboard, mouse, and other small items. There’s also additional storage in the attached drawers, which tackles some potential space issues.

With two adjustable heights for improved comfort (elevation of 4.3 inches with an additional 2.2 inches) and ergonomic support, this is a useful choice for anyone who wants to reduce work-related leg and back tension. Soft and well made, with a breathable cover to avoid overheating, this footrest provides a smooth support to your feet and body.

Versatile, the footrest can also be used in your sofa or bed, while lying down or sitting. Lightweight (1.49 pounds) and good sized, the product is easy to carry everywhere at home or even outside (if you have a deck, for example).

Easy to clean and washing machine ready, you only need to remove the cover unzipping and that’s it. This is an important feature for such a product considering the footrest stays on the floor and you put your feet on the top of it while using it.

Comfortable for a long day of work, sitting for many hours, this chair has pneumatic seat-height adjustments to fit each type of person (short or long legs) and heights. The pneumatic controls let you raise or lower your seat and rock back in your chair — or remain firmly sitting up straight. You choose. The adjustable office chair helps to promote a comfy seated position, which is important considering that you probably work for a few hours.

I have this chair at home (me and my husband), and we never had any issues. Easy to use, the gently curved back of the chair provides mesh-only sections for enhanced breathability. An important information for users is that the office chair allows a maximum weight capacity of 225 pounds, so it is better check your weight before buying one.

Its dual-wheel casters are useful helpers if you like to keep in movement in a smooth-rolling mobility while work – which is my case, for example.

Easy to assemble, the office chair has its instructions included. Good sized, improving the user experience, with a large back, the chair measures 25.2 inches deep by 24 inches wide by 35.6 to 40.3 inches high.

Size: 33.7 cm L x 33.0 cm W x 22.9 cm D.

If you work with papers, books, notebooks, and need a extra help to organize everything, a strategic organizer with enough space can be a great investment. Besides space-saving, the Mesh organizer is designed with a drawer – essential if you have many documents or papers. Some other features are: two side load letter trays, a tray with a 3 compartment drawer, a upright section with five compartments, file folder and letter organizer.

Useful, and easy to assemble, this organizer could be useful not only for workers but also students at different ages.

When you work from home it’s important to save space, and as you can see this is not a large organizer, but it is way complete at the same time.

Although it’s good sized, its dimensions may be more or less suitable based on your available desk space.

Size: 32.51 x 18.54 x 40.39 cm; 3.76 Kilograms

This product has more than 4.5 stars on Amazon, and 100,000 reviews, which is quite a good enough indicative of its quality.

Paper shredders are an important yet overlooked appliance for most people working from home. If you deal with confidential documents at your home office, they’re even more essential.

It’s possible to choose from a 6-Sheet Cross-Cut Paper to a 24-Sheet Cross-Cut Paper, based on your requirements. For big companies, depending on the segment, a powerful one would probably be the best choice. For a home office, the 6-Sheet Cross-Cut Paper can probably fit to your daily use.

Lightweight and quieter, this is an affordable machine (less than $50) which shreds paper into strips measuring 3/16″x 1-27/32″. Fast, it has three-minute continuous run time with 30 minute cool down cycle with an overheat LED indicator. For increased safety, it will stop working if something gets stuck – so you can unplug it and remove whatever got stuck in it before it continues.

Convenient, the 4.1-gallon bin with see-through window easily determine when bin is full, being quite easy to empty with the lifting handle.

If you’re always on the go and need to work everywhere such as at the airport, hotels, etc., and can’t guarantee that you will have a desk for your laptop, a lapgear, or lapdesk, can be a great investment.

Cushioned to provide enough comfort to the user, this lapgear has dual-bolster cushion conforms to your lap, keeping you cool and comfortable. Good sized, the surface dimensions are 21.1 x 12 inches with device ledge.

Versatile, it has a phone slot to hold you phone vertically (slot dimensions = 5″ X 0.75″), and a good sized mouse pad area (5″ X 9″) to allows to each user a fluid workload with enough space. And to ensure your laptop is protected, the air flow provides ventilation, ensuring that your computer won’t overheat.

Useful for everyone, from students to workers, having a USB flash drive with enough memory space is very important to save important, personal documents.

The Nenac has a USB 3.0 flash drive with read/write transfer speeds up to 90MB/s(R) and 30MB/s(W). Easy to use, you don’t need to install any software, just simply plug into the USB port of computer or other devices and that’s it, and can be used with all the brands of PC, Laptop, TV, Car, Audio.

Compatible with Windows XP/ 7/ 8.1/ 10, Linux and Mac OSx10.3, the Netac 3.0 memory stick supports any digital data, such as music, video, photos, movies, manuals, software, etc. With six capacities, the USB is available from 32GB to 256GB, and it’s small enough for you to carry it anywhere e.g. bag, wallet or even pocket.

A watch can be a good ally to during a workday, especially if you prefer to stay away from your phone during work. With two colours of numbers, white and blue, it’s easy to read from a long distance when necessary. Another important feature is that the screen is dimmable so you will not be disturbed by the bright light of the clock during the night.

More than a traditional clock, the Liorque clock is versatile and allows to turn on 15 FM radio stations(76.0MHz-108.0MHz). You can listen to music, news, talk shows, the weather report, and more. The Liorque alarm also has 9 mins of snooze function, preventing people from going into deep sleep again. You can also choose a buzzer or radio stations as the alarm sound.

In weekend mode, the alarm clocks will never ring to disturb your sleep.

Your home office will require many plugs to power all the essential appliances for work. The Trond strip provides a massive outlet expansion with 13 AC outlets, and 4 USB charging ports (17W total USB output), enough power and charging for up to 17 devices from a single wall outlet. Maxpower: 1875W (125V~15A).

Flat and easy to use in large or small rooms, this power bar is made of 14AWG pure copper; the 5-foot extension cord is heavy-duty and has better current carrying capacity (15A). Convenient, you only need to plug what is essential to work (or any other time and place, like the living room.)

With 4000J surge protection, it safeguards your TV, computers, phones and office equipment from potentially damaging power disturbances. A concern when you need to turn on many devices at home at the same time.

If you work from home, you probably have online meetings quite frequently. So, investing in a high-quality headset is almost mandatory, and will be useful to guarantee your effective communication.

High-tech, the Leitner headset comes in three options (single ear, dual ear, on-ear). Easy to use, it simultaneously connects to your computer and desk phone via USB and phone jack. More than that, if you need to leave the office while you chat with your co-workers, the headset has a 350 foot range, which allows you to go to any other room keeping a high-quality sound.

Flexible and lightweight, with an adjustable headband, it’s also cushioned with an ergonomic design plus adjustable headband providing enough comfort to its users. The volume adjustment is easy to set, and the ultra noise-cancelling blocks out background noise so your callers will hear you and only you – which is way important in a working from home routine – especially if you house has kids, dogs, and you need to focus.

The headphone is compatible with Avaya, Yealink, Cisco, VoIP and 99% of Desk Phones and PC’s (USB and Phone Jack)

Ideal to print envelopes, paper (plain), glossy photo paper, this Epson printer can have a big size in case you need to leave the printer on the top of your desk (‎56.64 x 37.59 x 25.91 cm; 7.2kg). On the other hand, it’s high-capacity ink tanks makes you save, not investing in expensive ink cartridges since the included Epson’s exclusive EcoFit ink bottles makes filling easy and worry-free.

According to the brand, it is possible to save up to 90% with replacement ink bottles vs. ink cartridges (1) – that’s enough to print up to 7,500 pages black/6,000 colour, equivalent to about 90 individual ink cartridges.

The components included in this printer are: EcoTank ET-2850 all-in-one, manual, power cord, 1 bottle of 502 Black (127 mL) and 1 bottle each of 502 Cyan, Magenta, Yellow (70 mL) (2)EcoTank ET-2850 all-in-one, manual, power cord, 1 bottle of 502 Black (127 mL) and 1 bottle each of 502 Cyan, Magenta, Yellow (70 mL) (2).