From a mental perspective it’s important to keep your professional life separate from your private life. This line should also be drawn when it comes to rooms. A separate office is ideal, but home offices can often also be accommo-dated in living areas or spacious halls. 

Creating new space
Partition walls help separate work and living spaces. Installing plasterboard walls is an easy and cost-effective solution. Plasterboard panels attached to a metal construction are ideal in this situation. Insulating material provides additional soundproof thermal insulation between the gaps. This allows for a focused, efficient and comfortable working environment protected from any noise. Plasterboard panelled with a single layer also makes a suitable room partition and provides protection against distractions. 

Furnishing home office walls
Partition walls simultaneously provide added space for furniture and furnishing elements. Home working spaces can be made office friendly by adding wall lamps or shelves. Pictures and other furnishing elements can upgrade living areas. But be careful: plasterboard has limited load-bearing capacity and can only bear so much weight. The plugs and screws must be suitable for the application. The weight and thickness of the component must also be taken into account. 
The fischer DUOBLADE is a recommended product for this scenario and is particularly clean and easy to install. It effectively expands in the correct level of plasterboard panels with single and double panelling while protecting the material. Lightweight lamps, pictures and much more can be securely attached with the DUOBLADE. fischer’s DUOTEC plug expands behind panels and is recommended for installing heavier living room shelves, hooks or pictures to partition walls.

Illuminated workspace 
Desks should ideally be located near a window, as daylight is beneficial to performance and saves on electricity. Artificial lighting is also crucial to allow work to continue during darker months of the year. Cold lighting is recommended for home offices as it increases concentration and productivity levels. Colour temperatures or light colours of over 5,300 Kelvin are recommended for this purpose. The fischer DUOPOWER is an all-round solution suitable for installing lamps in all anchor basses that surround the home office. It flexibly activates the right function in solid, hollow and panel construction materials by expanding, folding or knotting. The fischer DUOTEC meanwhile is suitable for attaching lamps in partition walls and panelling materials with cavities. Blinds are also recommended for controlling light exposure and can easily be installed with the fischer DUOPOWER.

A strong posture for the future
An ergonomic office chair is particularly important when regularly working from home full time. When sitting upright with feet placed firmly and parallel on the ground with the forearms placed on the tabletop, knees and elbows should be at 90-degree angles. Monitors should also be placed slightly below the horizontal visual axis at a distance of one arm length.

Taking various furnishing tips into account can make working at home enjoyable without blurring the lines between work and leisure time.