6 Living Room Ideas That Work for Both Relaxing and Working From Home

For many UK households, the living room now hosts both rest and work in the same day. Trying to keep the two lives strictly separate often fails. The better approach is to design the room so it can switch between the two modes without visual clutter or stress. This guide covers six ideas drawn from real homes we have helped at Furniture in Fashion. We look at choosing a desk that does not shout office, hiding cables so they fade from view, building in storage that suits both work and leisure, adding a quiet second seat for calls and reading, using soft furnishings to mark the change of pace and planning lighting in two layers across the day. None of these ideas turn a lounge into a study. They simply let the same room hold both lives comfortably, with a transition that takes less than a minute....