When shopping for upholstered furniture, most people judge based on the fabric. Is it the right material, color, design, and texture? These are important questions to ask, but they aren’t the most important.

Whether your office is a cubicle in a commercial space or a room in your home, so many variables can make or break your productivity. It’s not that conditions have to be just perfect in order to complete your work, but noise, temperature, and lighting can greatly impact your mood and ability to work.

SPENDING around a third of our lives – and half our waking time – in work means it is important we are comfortable in our workplace. And given that for many of us, our home has unexpectedly become our workplace over the past year, with many businesses indicating this is set to become permanent even after the end of the pandemic, now might be a great time to look at our hastily created home offices.

From monochromatic color schemes to hanging horticulture, 2020 trends in interior design for professional spaces are as plentiful as they are individually unique. An office environment doesn’t and shouldn’t mean the same thing as it did 50 years ago.