Home Office Basics

The desk's 5-foot-wide seating area was intended to allow a parent to pull up a chair during after-school homework sessions.

TOH Tip: If you're not going to use a chair, you could fit a computer station into an 18-inch-wide cubby. Want to sit? Expand it to 21-inches-wide, but for a pair of seats, allow at least 2 feet per person per workstation.