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Kids at Work: A Kids' Office Space in your Home
Kids office furniture and ideas
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I have been reading a lot lately about entrepreneurial children. These are kids who have started businesses while still in elementary school or junior high. Some of them have even gone on to be wildly successful and to turn in to teenage millionaire entrepreneurs. This makes me wonder what their working conditions were like at home.
Even if your kids aren't interested in business, they do need a place where they can settle down each day to do homework. Creating a small office space for them is a good idea. It is a place that they know is intended for work just like we know that our desks or cubicles or offices are our work space.
Children's "offices" typically are not whole rooms. Usually this is just a desk and work area set aside in the child's bedroom. In some cases this area may be in another part of the home such as the living room or a hallway nook.
Regardless of where it's located, the child's office space should be designed with care. It needs to have enough color and inspiration to keep your child excited about working. And yet, it shouldn't have so many distractions that it takes away from the work time that it's intended for. How have you achieved this balance in your child's work space?
Even if your kids aren't interested in business, they do need a place where they can settle down each day to do homework. Creating a small office space for them is a good idea. It is a place that they know is intended for work just like we know that our desks or cubicles or offices are our work space.
Children's "offices" typically are not whole rooms. Usually this is just a desk and work area set aside in the child's bedroom. In some cases this area may be in another part of the home such as the living room or a hallway nook.
Regardless of where it's located, the child's office space should be designed with care. It needs to have enough color and inspiration to keep your child excited about working. And yet, it shouldn't have so many distractions that it takes away from the work time that it's intended for. How have you achieved this balance in your child's work space?
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| The most common place to create an "office" for your child is in the child's bedroom. Most people achieve this by creating a separate work area in the space. Turning the desk to face a wall is the easiest way of achieving this. It helps to minimize distractions while the child is working. And yet, this doesn't mean that the room has to be boring in any way as we can see by the fun color scheme and furniture in this room. |
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Some people choose to incorporate the kids' office space into the rest of the room in a more direct way. This is great for kids who are able to work without getting easily distracted. The child in this room could work at the desk for awhile then move to the bed to read and then sprawl on the floor to work on a project. If your child works well that way then a flowing work space like this is terrific. Keep the colors neutral like we see here to minimize any potential distractions of such an already-busy room.
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A child's work space can have multiple work areas without being located in the bedroom. Here we have a desk as well as a window seat. The child can move around to avoid discomfort after too long while still working. It looks like a great homework area doesn't it?
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If you have a small niche in your house that isn't being used then it can be turned into a tiny office for your child. Stairway lofts, hallway niches and other small places are good for this type of set up. This is perfect if you have older kids that are starting to get serious about working.
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A kids' office can also be combined with a playroom. Again, we want the desk area to be focused towards a wall to keep distractions at bay. It's also important to stay very organized like this. A room like this is great if you have multiple kids that need to work and play in the same place. It's also great if your kids work well with a rewards system; do ten minutes of homework and then we'll take a toy down and play.
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Many times you will want to create a child's office space that has desk room for two. This allows the child to work with a sibling, a school friend or even you.
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The side-by-side set up seen above is only one way to create a workspace-for-two. Sometimes the better option is to put two desks face to face. This encourages collaboration which is an important work skill for your child to learn.
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In terms of designing around your child's office, you don't want it to be too boring. You want them to like working here. Let them choose the things that go on and around their desk. The only rule should be that they don't have things like video games or cell phones here.
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You do want to keep the area streamlined and functional. The wall here is totally funky but the organization of the desk and bookcase make it a place where work can still be done.
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Finally, I think it's a great idea to include some inspirational / motivational sayings in your child's "office". This could be a poster, a quote painted on to the wall or a chalkboard where you write new inspiring comments daily for your child to read.
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