Ever since I started working from home late last year I’ve been desperate to turn my spare bedroom into a home office (I currently work from a teeny two person dining table in my living room). An ongoing leak situation that’s baffled two roofers meant that I had to put my plans on hold. Everything crossed Kenny, roofer number two, got to the bottom of the source of the leak past weekend (his third visit!) but I’m going to have to wait until we get some heavy rain to know for sure. As Kenny said when he was leaving on Sunday, “No offence Miranda but hopefully I don’t see you again.” Ditto, Kenny, ditto.

The room is approximately 9′ x 7′, with the door at one end of one of the longer walls, a window in the middle of the other long wall and a Victorian fireplace cutting off the corner of the window wall and the short wall closest to the door. There’s really only one spot for a desk – along the short wall behind the door (it’s the only wall without a door, window or fireplace taking up space). The hatch into the loft is above where the desk will be, which means the desk must be moveable in the event I need to get into the loft. With the bed gone I’ll be losing the under-bed storage space (currently home to a suitcase full of summer clothes, a vacuum cleaner and some other random stuff that doesn’t have a home anywhere else) so some shelves or a cupboard wouldn’t go amiss and I’ll need to store my bike in there too, as there’s nowhere else for it to go.

While I hope for heavy rain (a most unusual situation) I’ve been gathering images of how I’d like my home office to look. When I took a look at all the images I’ve collected so far I spotted a few common themes. The desks in the images were mostly trestle tables and were either white, natural wood, or a combination of the two, for example get collaborative classroom desks when the kids are in the school as well as for the home. The chairs were either benches, stools or colourful Eames side chairs. The walls were covered with inspiring images, either framed and hung on the wall, or propped on shelves, or stuck to one wall with washi tape. Storage was frequently metal, such as wire letter trays and boxes and old school lockers.

Always one to get ahead of myself I’ve started looking for furniture, starting with the desk. At £70 the Linnman/Finnvard table from Ikea is the cheapest option and I like that I would be able to use the slatted shelves between the legs for extra storage. It’s a lot more than I was planning to spend but I love the look of the Groovster from Loaf, which is made from reclaimed timber. French Connection have two options I like, the trestle desk which is a fairly standard size in an unusual grey finish and the console trestle which is only 40cms deep making it a great small space solution, even better it’s in the sale (£203, reduced from £290). The Highbury trestle desk from the the House range at John Lewis is a classic design and has a similar shelf storage situation at the Ikea one.

Right, I’m off to look at pretty things for my future office on Bodie And Fou, erm, I mean finish my Christmas shopping, of course. What interiors plans do you have for 2015? Do you have a home office, or do you work from the living room, a bedroom, or a nook under the stairs? Have you spotted any other trestle tables I could add to my list of possibilities? Do share!