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Originally Posted On: https://www.spiritedpuddlejumper.com/3-steps-to-make-your-home-office-more-inspiring/

As so many of us are currently using a home office, you need to find ways to ensure it inspires the creativity and productivity to keep you on task and to perform your best throughout the day. You’ll want to make your home office more inspiring. 

However, we all know how difficult it can be to force this productivity and inspiration. Trying too hard only leads to frustration, and all this does is send you around in circles until you end up where you first started. You don’t need to force your inspiration, though, you just need to know where to look. 

Bring In Some Color

Greens, yellows, oranges, blues, and reds can all help to bring the inspiration more easily than you would think. You can do this by filling your home office with plants and flowers, while if you have space, the Artificial Grass Group can add an outside, backyard-feel to your home office-slash-balcony. Such grass is also useful if your home office overlooks the garden, giving you something pleasant to look at rather than a patchy grass that you’ve neglected for too long. 

Not only will this additional colour make your previously drab home office more enjoyable to sit in all day long, real plants and flowers will also help to improve the air quality. This can directly improve your concentration, health, and productivity. 

Hang Up Some Art

What better way to be inspired than by bringing inspirational items into the office? Hanging art and photography pieces will help to unlock the creative spark. Aside from this, it also creates an atmosphere that will put you in a better frame of mind to complete your projects each day. 

But what kind of art do you hang? We all have our preferences, from prints of famous classical pieces to contemporary examples that give your office the modern and trendy feel, there is a vast selection to choose from. Furthermore, you can hang your artwork or even your kids if you want to show them how much you appreciate them. It may not be the best art ever, but there is something special about it. 

Declutter Your Office and Your Mind

You may not realise it, but a messy office without order is severely affecting your inspiration. You may think it adds to the flustered feelings and makes you seem like you’re working hard, but with every pencil out of place and each unwashed coffee mug scattered around the desk, your mind wanders. 

You don’t need this distraction, so take a weekend to tidy up your office, remove the clutter, and rearrange your desk and office space to make everything more orderly. Once you find a place for everything you need and throw out all you don’t, you’ll find it much easier to focus. 

Inspired and Productive 

By being able to make your home office more inspiring and much more comfortable, and you will find yourself entirely free of distractions to ensure you work throughout the day. By exploring these steps, you will discover the productivity and inspiration that always seems so fleeting and manage to harness it into something successful, whether that’s professionally or personally.