Home Office or Study Design - Ideas & Tips

The world of work has changed significantly in recent years. Working from home, meetings and conferences via digital media - the home office has become an integral part of many flats and houses. To easily turn your study into a creative place with a little colour, which also looks professional during video conferences, we have some tips and ideas for you!

Table of contents

1. Designing a home office: Ideas from our community
2. What do you want to paint? - The right colour & amount of paint for your workplace
3. Colours for the home office: These colours promote productivity and concentration
4. Must-haves for your study
5. FAQ: Frequently asked questions about painting your study
6. Video: Redesigning your home office with MissPompadour (Tips & Tricks)
7. Material and Accessories To Paint Your Home Office

Designing a home office: Ideas from our community

Our MissPompadour community was once again very creative and experimented with colour shades and colour accents. Get ideas and inspiration from the community's pictures and their interpretation of "designing a home office workspace"!

What do you want to paint? - The right paint & paint quantity for your workplace

Not everyone has a room of their own that they can design and furnish as an office. But often a corner, a desk, a wall shelf and a comfortable office chair are enough to make it an attractive workplace. A distinctly coloured wall and the painting of the desk can contribute significantly to making this corner a real workplace, where you feel comfortable and can work productively

For a new coat of paint on your office walls, all our wall paints are perfect:

• MissPompadour - The Functional Wall Paint is a very stable, washable wall paint, which offers many advantages due to its mattness and the strong colour shades.
• MissPompadour - The Valuable Wall Paint is our ecological wall paint, which is low-odour, sustainable and yet has excellent coverage.

Of course, the paint quantity depends on whether you want to paint an entire room or just one wall to set it apart from its surroundings. You can always find our practical paint calculator in our shop directly next to the respective colour shade. It calculates how much paint you need for how many square metres. To achieve a beautiful depth of colour, you should calculate the paint quantity for 2 coats

Colours for the home office: these colours promote productivity and concentration

In fact, it has been scientifically proven that colours influence our psyche. For a workplace, calm, neutral colour shades are recommended, which promote concentration and bring freshness into the working environment.
Here are some examples of colour shades that are particularly harmonious and thus create a productive working environment:

• MissPompadour White with Ginger - The Valuable Wall Paint gives small and slightly darker rooms a fresh, sparkling touch thanks to the light yellow pigments.
• MissPompadour Grey with Seasalt - The Functional Wall Paint convinces with a light grey tone with a slight umber component that radiates warmth. The colour is very hard-wearing and can also be combined well with other colour shades.
• MissPompadour Beige with Sand - The Valuable Wall Paint is a light, friendly beige and exudes a little beach atmosphere. It lends the office a certain lightness and carefreeness. In addition, the colour shade is also available in the quality "The Functional Wall Paint", which is particularly hard-wearing.

Matching colours for the walls of the study

If you want to paint just one wall in the office to make your corner stand out, or to add a touch of colour to your study, make sure the colour shade matches the rest of the wall paint in the room and your décor, but still stands out.
For video conferences, make sure that the area at your back is neutral. It is visible in the webcam and should not be distracting.

Professional tip: If your room is already small and there is also a bookshelf on the wall, you can make your office look larger by painting the shelf tone-in-tone with the wall. The best way to do this is with MissPompadour Matt Varnish, as it develops a surface look similar to that of wall paint.

Give your desk a fresh coat of paint

If you're painting walls, you might as well give your desk a fresh coat of paint. It doesn't matter whether it's made of wood - solid wood or veneered - metal or plastic, because our paints adhere to any surface. When choosing the colour, opt for a robust, hard-wearing varnish in a colour that stands out from the wall but at the same time harmonises with it.

• MissPompadour Eggshell Varnish is particularly recommended as it provides excellent coverage and an easy-to-clean surface.

Note that on smooth surfaces, such as plastic veneer, the colours adhere only with difficulty without pre-treatment. Therefore, use the primer To Bond - MissPompadour Primer as preparation. It creates the perfect base for all our colours.

Must-haves for your study

Have you always wanted to have a good old pinboard for your study, but you just don't like the big metal boards? We have a tip for you that will give you a magnetic wall that you can't even see. Use our MissPompadour magnet paint and paint exactly the area where you want your magnets to stick. Once the magnet paint is dry, paint over it with the wall paint. This way you have a practical pin board that doesn't disturb the overall impression of the room and for which you don't have to drill a single hole.
You can also design your office at home in terms of furniture and furnishings. If your workplace is limited in space, the practical RIVER angled desk may be particularly suitable for making the best use of the small room. Ugly files are best stored in a filing cabinet, such as the vito PRONTO chest of drawers.
When it comes to sitting, you shouldn't make any concessions. After all, it's your health that's at stake. The PAIDI TIO swivel chair is designed for working at home and ensures healthy and relaxed working. Ergonomically shaped office chairs relieve the strain on your back and offer pleasant sitting comfort.
Whether you have your own office or a workstation in the living room, office furnishings also include lighting. Ideally, your home office should get daylight, but lighting is also important on dark days. We recommend a neutral light colour in the study, such as daylight white. This light helps to concentrate and stay alert, but is still pleasant.

FAQ: Frequently asked questions on the subject of painting a home office

We have compiled the most frequently asked questions on the topic of home office and office design for you here:

Video: Home office makeover with MissPompadour (tips & tricks)

Material and Accessories for Painting the Home Office

For painting walls, wall elements or even a piece of furniture, we recommend our painting tools:

• plastic drop clothand adhesive tape: Our plastic drop cloth is suitable for protecting those areas that are not to be painted and are to be protected from unwanted paint splashes. To Mask areas that are not to be painted, such as sockets or light switches, our To Mask - MissPompadour Adhesive Tape is available in various sizes.
• Brush and paint roller: Use our fine MissPompadour brush to paint corners and edges. For larger areas, a paint roller is particularly suitable.
• paint tray: In order not to contaminate the paint in the original packaging and thus provoke a reduced durability, you should always use a paint tray.

Professional tip: If you interrupt your work - for example, because a coat of paint has to dry - wrap the brush, paint roller and paint tray airtight in cling film. This way you can keep the accessories fresh for around 24 hours and then continue working without any problems.