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Your Healthy Home Office Guide

By Gretchen Roberts, special to HGTV.com
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7. Color it creative
« 6. Lighten up | 8. Make room to relax »
Just because your office is a place of work doesn't make Dilbert Gray the required color. "A home office should blend with the existing architecture of your home," designer Rider says, and fit the mood you'd like to create at work. Romance and softness are key in this office designed by Shelly Riehl David. Draperies of multiple sheer overlays on hand-forged iron rod with orange ribbon and tassel fringe, an imported Italian upholstered chair, antique desk and soft robin egg's blue on the walls to complete the look.

If you want to maximize productivity, pick an energizing color such as a shade of red. Need calm? Choose a sea blue. Use a low-VOC paint, such as BioShield or Sherwin-Williams Harmony, for the walls, which emits fewer low-level toxic emissions into your home than regular paint.



1. Declutter

2. Clean up

3. Take a breath

4. Baby your body

5. Create good vibes


6. Lighten up

7. Color it creative

8. Make room to relax
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