Room by Room: The Accidental Office

The home office barely existed in residential design fifteen years ago — then the pandemic forced everyone to improvise one overnight, and it’s only now starting to get done properly. Caitlin and Sam trace the room’s evolution from the men’s study and the kitchen bill-paying desk to the pandemic-era standing-desk boom, and confess that neither of their own ‘offices’ is purely an office — one moonlights as a guest room, the other doubles as pastel-colored therapy. They get into Zoom background etiquette, the enduring ugliness of ergonomic furniture, a Hilary Duff eggplant-office throwback, and where the room goes next as some homes go all-in on a dedicated office and others get crafty with corners and closets.We want to see where you actually work! The real workspace, the improvised, the chaotic. Come find us on Instagram at @thestudio_terrace and show us your setups. We want to see all of it.Next week is our final episode in the Room by Room series — it blew right by, and it’s one we're been really excited about. We’re talking about the rooms nobody thinks about: the mudroom, the laundry room, the butler’s pantry, the entryway, the foyer — the rooms that have quietly had the most interesting glow-up of any room in the house.We'll see you back on the Terrace very soon. Don't forget the wine. xoxo