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Young House Love » Reader Redesigns » How To Make A Mini Office In A Closet

| By Sherry Petersik | January 12, 2010 | 60 Comments

How To Make A Mini Office In A Closet

When Mary sent us her amazing closet-to-office makeover we just had to share it. Here’s her letter:

I wanted to write to you to tell you how much I absolutely love your blog! You two have provided me with so much inspiration since I stumbled upon your site a few months back. Keep doing what you do! On another note, I wanted to share some before and after pictures of a little project I tackled at my house. We recently bought our first home and had to downsize a bit. We came from a 2,000 sq. foot rental home and moved into a 1,080 sq. foot home that is all ours. The only thing this home lacked was an office. Our future plans include enclosing the back patio and turning it into a large office for me and my expanding design business, but that’s probably not going to be in the budget for another year or so. For the time being, I came up with the idea to turn the linen closet into a teeny tiny place to keep my office supplies, magazines, bills, laptop, etc. It’s not the office of my dreams, but it will work for the time being! Hope you enjoy! – Mary

Here’s the linen closet before:

Closet Rr1

And the lovely mini office after:

Closet Rr2

Closet Rr3

Don’t you love that work-with-watcha-got spirit? We think it’s a charming little place to store everything and get right to work without waiting for a big office renovation to come to fruition. Plus the cork boards on the inside of the door add even more function and display space. Thanks so much for sharing the inspiring before and after photos Mary (check out her blog here)! What do you guys think? Isn’t that a sweet and simple solution to get the job done?

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Comments

  1. Notesfromthegrove says

    January 13, 2010 at 12:17 pm

    What a fantastic idea! She did a great job.

    Reply
  2. alltheprettythings says

    January 13, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    Very cute and practical use of space, but holy moses I couldn’t sit in a closet, not even for 5 minutes. I’m small (size 0-2 5’4 – who knew there were so many of us petites?!) so fitting isn’t a problem, but facing a dark wall would irritate me to no end. I’d lighten up with mirrors and just take that door off. The door hinges would also seriously bother me.

    I saw a brilliant idea at Ikea for creating a home office in very limited space, and it went right into our idea file for when we downsize. Ikea used closed kitchen cabinets hanging above an open countertop style desk (probably real countertops but adjusted for height) with drawers on either side. There were 2 spaces created for working together. When everything is put away in the cabinets and drawers, it doubles as additional kitchen space or a charming little spot you can use in a living room or even hallway. When you have very limited space, it’s amazing what vertical installations can do!

    Reply
  3. adhocmom says

    January 13, 2010 at 2:30 pm

    clever, clever!
    x,
    Paula
    http://www.adhocmom.com

    Reply
  4. jacqueline says

    January 14, 2010 at 11:37 am

    I’m soooo impressed! I would have never thought about making an office out of that space but it looks WONDERFUL!!!

    Reply
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