The secret to office design can sometimes be to successfully merge your home and office by making your office invisible outside working hours. If you have enough space to devote one full room to your working space, then it’s easier. However, if you have limited space, your office furniture may have to double as a kitchen table.

Computer desks are really popular designs for home offices now as they can be full sized desks by day and lovely home furniture by night. All you need to do is to swing the computer desk doors open, and slide out the computer and desktop, pull up your office chair and bang you are in business!

Even though computers have taken over much of the business world, no one is yet completely paperless, so where there is an office, there will be papers and with papers there has to be files. Having a large metal filing cabinet sat next to the dining room table isn’t very appealing so consider an alternative.

Just as the computer desk is transformed into an aesthetically pleasing home cabinet, lockable filing cabinets made of matching home materials and colours can double as living room side tables on each side of your settee.

Office furniture such as this adopts the theory "hidden in plain sight," so you have home office furniture without sacrificing your comfortable home surroundings.