You don’t have to be a politician to be interested in home office furniture, just someone who wants to make a success of working from home. Whether you work from home full time or want to start a part time home business, you will feel more professional if you have a home office. Those people who work from home and have a designated work space say that having ‘somewhere to go’ reinforces the idea that what you are about to do is work.

Freelance workers of all kinds may find that one day a client does not want to meet either at their place of business or a nearby coffee shop; instead they want the meeting to be at the freelancer’s place of work. If you normally have a corner of the kitchen table, or work at your laptop from the comfort of your armchair, you are not giving the impression that you take your work seriously.

There are some good deals around on home office furniture at the moment, one company even makes office furniture that is designed to fit nicely with the rest of your interior decoration – so there’s no excuse, manufacturers do cater for the home worker. Give it a try, set aside a table and a space to begin with and see whether ‘turning up for work’ increases your output and your feeling of professionalism.