How to make spare bedroom/office more attractive?

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I'm decorating our home office from scratch. All we have in there is a double bed (wood frame) and desk (different wood). I'm finding it difficult to figure out how to make the room nice and cosy and well decorated, when it will have a huge monitor and ugly desk chair in one corner. I've looked on Pinterest, but literally none of the pictures of perfectly decorated home office rooms seem to feature any IT equipment 😂.

Any ideas? Is it a losing battle?

I went through this - really struggled seeing IT equipment all the time when working from home and needed to find a way of shutting it away. Can you hide the IT equipment? There are quite a few nice "office cupboards" / bureaus now, I have a wall mounted drop down desk that is only about 12cm deep on the wall I think which we tinkered with to house a monitor, so once I'm done working, the desk folds back up and it's all out of sight.

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Have you a photo of the room op ?

also you could Frenchic paint the desk in another colour / wallpaper one wall and get lead covers (IKEA)

few House plants, rug, lamp, decent prints

I have my office in the spare bedroom with a single bed. I have a big monitor on my desk and a million wires. What I’ve done that makes me feel better about it is I have the desk against one wall, and the bed against the opposite wall with a lovely upholstered headboard, nice bedside table and lamp and lovely bedding and cushions. It means I have a lovely vignette and I can ignore the other side! Depends on your room layout though.

Yes layout is important. Like pp we have bed on one wall - the one facing you as you walk in. The desk with monitor etc is on the opposite wall, and has a tall bookshelf next to it, in between the door and the desk. The bookshelf means you don’t really see the monitor at all until you’ve walked round to where the desk is.

We also have a lovely vintage desk chair, although DH wants to replace it as it’s not adjustable enough for him <cry>

My office is just my office which I think helps because it only has one function. I’ve kept
it bright and as airy as possible and even though I could shut my door on it at the end of the working day it actually looks kind of nice in there.
But I’m not also trying to give it a cosy bedroom vibe.
What sort of size is it, can you go for a sort of more dressing table style desk? My desk is a proper desk with hard lines and edges, something with curved or even just less harsh edges might soften the overall look. I have my monitor and laptop set up side by side but always close my laptop at the end of the day so it looks less messy on my desk. And I have a shelf above with some work files and then some candles and plants in there too so it’s a bit less ‘functional’.