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Dear Alice | Interior Design

Transform Your Office: Designer Secrets

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Visual Arts, Arts, Design

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Designing a functional and beautiful home office starts with the right foundation. In this episode of Dear Alice, we share our best home office design ideas, including space planning tips, built-in storage, office lighting, desk layout, and how to create a workspace that feels productive and inspiring. From Zoom-friendly backdrops and cord management to choosing the best desk chair and office furniture, this episode is packed with practical work-from-home design tips to help you create a stylish, hardworking office. Shop Alice Lane: ⁠https://alicelanehome.com/⁠  Sign up for our Insider Rewards Program: ⁠https://alicelanehome.com/pages/insider-program ⁠  Follow us on Instagram: ⁠https://instagram.com/alicelanehome⁠ & ⁠https://instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors ⁠ Follow us on Facebook:⁠ https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome/⁠  Go to ⁠https://cozyearth.com/pages/dearalice⁠ for 20% off your Cozy Earth order! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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VisitMedexpress.co.com.uk slash podcast to get started today. Hello, welcome to Dear Alice. Today we're bringing back our Transform Your series. Do you guys remember that? Been too long. I know. I will say that. One of my faves, though. I do too. I actually forgot about it. And then we got a listener question in from Rowanan and he wanted to know if we were going to do

0:38.5

a Transform Your Office series because he's working on his office and it reignited inside of us

0:44.7

that were like, oh my gosh, we haven't done the office yet. So we've done the transform your bathroom,

0:49.3

your kitchen, your closet, your bedroom. So if you're working on a project heading into the summer or just any

0:56.5

project wanting to redo a space in your house, that's a really great series to go look for

1:00.6

any of the Transform Your. So today we're going to be doing your home office. And a lot of these

1:05.5

things can be applicable at work as well, where we really take you through just how to set

1:09.8

things up so that it really

1:11.1

looks and functions great. If you have any other ideas of Transformure that you haven't heard from us,

1:16.7

that you want to hear, write that in. We'd love to know. We love the series. Okay, so Corey, take us into

1:22.5

Rowan's question. Rowan asked, I'd love a deep dive on where to start with offices, how you decide what to put in them,

1:29.6

and for a practical, small room to be glamorous and efficient, not just for show. You got to put

1:35.0

paper, pens, notebooks, whiteboards, cork boards, your vision board, and inspirational messages

1:40.4

somewhere. Yes, you do, Rowan. As we thought about where we would start with the office

1:45.9

and look through our portfolio of images and offices that we've designed, there are three things

1:50.2

that we pay attention to. The first being the function. Every office space is different. You have

1:55.5

different shapes. You have windows. You have doors. You have fireplaces. You have maybe none of those

1:59.8

things, but it's not very big. So how do you actually think about what do you need it? How do you need it to function? And how do you space plan all those things, right? Second is the feeling. So we figure out the function first, but the second is the feeling. Everybody when you're going into any space that you're going to actually invest in, put money into, you want it to have a feeling, especially when you're thinking about a space when you're

2:20.8

going to go work, whether you're working full time in this office or whether it's just a place

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