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Do you have an extra room that would work well as a home office? You don’t need a lot of extra furniture such as file cabinets and bookshelves to make the room work for you. With a desk, phone and laptop, you’re ready to get started.

This office is particularly inviting. First of all, the light through the slanted windows provides a balanced and bright space. This is helped by the light wood flooring. The desk and sofa are also light, making the room feel airy and fresh.

If you have the space, a sofa like this creates the feeling that people are welcome to sit, be comfortable, and chat. For a home office when spouse and children may want to step in for a minute, this provides the invitation to join you. And in this case, it’s her puppy that’s taking full advantage of the comfy spot.

Color is minimized, which keeps the room calm instead of distracting. The back wall, the lamp base and the area rug are soft mossy green and the chair adds a welcome splash of orange. That’s enough color for the room.

If you need some file space, consider a small rolling file cart on wheels. You can hide it in a closet or under your desk when it’s not in use, and it holds almost the same number of hanging files as a file drawer.

This is a home office that feels right at home. You don’t have to recreate a corporate environment to have a workable work space in your home. Instead, make it a place you love and you will love to work there.

Creating a charming bathroom can be done with little accents and pops of color no matter your tile or flooring.  Bathroom renovations are second only to kitchen renovations when it comes to homeowner remodeling projects and wish lists. Installing new tile, flooring, tub, toilet, fixtures, a vanity and lighting can add up to a pretty healthy budget. Working with what you have to create a charming bathroom is a much more budget friendly option.

This charming bathroom is done in the cottage style. A pedestal sink works in spaces with small footprints as they do not take up as much visual space or physical space as a traditional vanity. The downside with pedestal sinks is the lack of storage. For small bathrooms vertical space should be used. Built in medicine cabinets and wall mounted shelving can provide storage in absence of counter or vanity space.  The back of the door can also be used for hanging storage and towels.

The turquoise chair with rush seat adds a pop of color and can hold extra towels as well as a robe or even a basket of soaps and lotions. The bathmat keeps water from pooling on the floor and at the same time adds color on the floor.

Apartments and smaller homes often have galley kitchens. These narrow spaces are called galley kitchens after the galleys on boats. A small and narrow footprint can in reality be a highly functional kitchen space if the appliances are laid out in a proper work triangle.

The benefit of a galley kitchen is that there are very few steps between the stove, fridge and sinks, the work triangle of any kitchen. It may not be possible to open the fridge and the oven at the same time, as in this kitchen, but when does that ever really happen.

Galley kitchens can work if you have one chef in the family.  Getting two or more people in a galley kitchen can be tricky. Having enough counter space can also be tricky. Having a microwave built into a cabinet or above the stove is a good way to save valuable counter space in a galley or any small kitchen.

When placing flooring in a galley kitchen, don’t fight against the natural narrowness of the space. Wood floors should be installed with the boards running the same direction as the counters.  Emphasize the length of the kitchen to make it feel larger.

In smaller kitchens the total amount of materials will be less than in a larger kitchen. This means you can splurge on the granite countertops, the more expensive cabinets and the better quality floor. The bulk of your budget will still be on the appliances. To save space, use a counter depth refrigerator. Every inch counts in a galley kitchen.

Many of us dream of spending our days by the sea, falling asleep to the sound of crashing waves and waking up to walk along the shore.

You don’t have to live close to the ocean to create a bedroom that feels like the beach is right outside your window. This room would fit well on either coastline or anywhere inland.

The rough wood ceiling and painted planks on the walls create the sense of a summer cottage rather than a standard home. The wood flooring is more finished, but its color meshes with the less polished wood in the room. A wood floor like this is always open to design possibilities.

Blue and white create an ocean feel, and the crisp colors are refreshing and clean. All of the blues seem somewhat faded which fits the picture of a cottage that’s seen lots of use. Everything needs to be washable when sand is coming in all the time. The quilt on the bed looks like it was made for utility rather than style, but it still adds charm and interest because of its handmade quality.

The somewhat outdated shape of the slip-covered chair and simple lines of the rest of the furniture continues the beach cottage theme. Everything is a little mismatched. Cottage furniture is compiled of leftovers and thrift-store pieces and this room demonstrates that in a good way.

There are small touches of red and yellow in the room – red on the bed pillow and yellow as part of the quilt. Once again, the unsophisticated features make the room nicer and more comfortable. The beach cottage look is more about making it feel natural rather than “getting it right.”

To finish, you could add a bowl full of shells and sand or a few pieces of polished sea glass. With just a little work and imagination, you’ve brought the feel of the beach inland.