I have always liked white bookcases – the type you get for not very much at the local hardware supply store. In fact our local now has a whole range of bookcases which you can match with cupboards and wardrobes. It makes it very easy to build a cost-effective home office which looks clean modern and practical.

The trick is of course to compromise on the standard sized units which are usually 1800×600x480 -though the shelfs themselves can be adjusted. Custom made office furniture is of course designed to fit – so if you go with cheap flat pack furniture for you new office you will have ot design around the standard sizes. You can often pick up a brochure that will give you all the standard dimensions for the units and sometimes give you scaled paper and cutouts to plan your home office design painlessly.  

Setting up a home office means that you may not have the budget for expensive furniture – but inexpensive white bookcases and cupboards may be just he solution you need.