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4 Trends in Home-Office Design Whether your style is minimalistic or multipurpose, you have design options when work and home collide.
By Lana Bortolot •
This story appears in the August 2015 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
No longer consigned to the basement or unused nook, the home office has emerged as one of the most important residential amenities, thanks to an uptick in both self-employment and flexible working trends.
"The home office comes up all the time—it's on par with programming the kitchen and dining room," says David Dowell, a principal at Kansas City, Mo., architecture firm El Dorado Inc. "It's in the top three things we design."
