Setting up and designing a home office doesn't have to be difficult or overwhelming. By planning ahead, selecting the ideal space and finding the right furniture, you can make the process easier.
Functional furniture should fit home d�corBush Bainbridge Collection Double Pedestal DeskVinh cannot do much more. The needs are gargantuan and her resources modest. Day after day, six days a week, from eight to noon, she and her volunteer staff of fewer than a dozen see HTV/AIDS patients, most of them in the last months of their lives. The patients come from throughout the city and beyond, as far away as northern Vietnam.Office Star Espresso Telephone StandShe and her staff receive some three dozen HIV/AIDS patients each morning at the center. In the afternoon, the staff goes out to attend to those too weak--or too fearful--to come to the center. They have been doing this for 13 years. Pharmaceutical companies have donated most of the medicines. The local parish priest, meanwhile, is also a physician who can prescribe medicine.Across town, meanwhile, about the same time, another Catholic HIV/AIDS ministry was being formed. St. Paul de Chartres Sr. Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai has been counting pills at the Mai Tarn House of Hope since its beginning some six years ago. The Mai Tam House of Hope cares for women living with the HIV virus along with their children and others, all, some 65 children, mostly carrying the virus, fill up the very active Mai Tam center, which occupies a nondescript, four-story, narrow concrete building and has no sign to identify its purpose.* Is there enough room for all of your equipment, files, and supplies?Mayline Eclipse Oval Coffee TableBy answering these questions, you will identify the best space for a home office.Design your office to reflect your taste, interests and style. If your office isn't carpeted, add an area rug to reduce echo. For privacy and to minimize the effects of direct sunlight, add window treatments. Don't forget to provide enough light for your desk and overall office.Black Wood Corner Computer DeskShe and some friends went on a retreat where they put together some plans: They would contact hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and then search out people with the virus. Many of them were hiding, ashamed and abandoned, she explained. It was not easy at first.Bestar Embassy L-shape DeskThat dull metal filing cabinet doesn�t add anything to the appearance of your home office. So replace it with the four-foot tall storage cabinet made of resilient wood and veneers. Each of the five drawers is accented with a sophisticated metal pull, and the top two drawers have frosted glass fronts for an extra dash of modern design.[Thomas C. Fox is NCR editor. His e-mail address is tfox@ncronline.org.]Maximize your available home office space with this snug yet functional cabinet that will fit in any corner of the room. The bottom compartment of this solid wood cabinet comes with adjustable shelving to accommodate whatever storage needs you might have. And the top pull out tray is ideal for magazines, stationery, or other documents.What arrangement works best for you?That makes the Echo Center--and Vinh's work--all the more necessary and remarkable. The center gets the name from an idea: echo, or give back. Vinh says the idea is to echo the gifts people have been given.
Design your office to reflect your taste, interests and style. If your office isn't carpeted, add an area rug to reduce echo. For privacy and to minimize the effects of direct sunlight, add window treatments. Don't forget to provide enough light for your desk and overall office.
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