There's also a gorgeous retro-inspired oak desk from for less than £200, a small desk from John Lewis that home-schooling parents will adore and a folding desk from Amazon that'll send work out of sight and out of mind by the time the clock strikes 17:00.

It attaches to your wall and can be folded away outside of the hours of 9-5 to help you forget about work as you should. Elsewhere, Wayfair reigns supreme in the floating desks market (yup, it’s a thing) - with this stylish white desk a fabulous option. There best small desk for solving all your storage woes is this leaning desk from which is clean and modern in design with plenty of room for your books and indoor plants. What are the best desks for small spaces? They're narrow, compact and won't take up much room. Whether you’re to set-up camp in your living room or bedroom, these small-space desks are the perfect storage/desk hybrids, with drawers to keep your paperwork out of sight and out of mind, plus shelves for your books and stationery. Enter: small desks so cute and compact that they’ll fit into the tiniest corners of your one-bed flat and provide a backdrop more Instagrammable than the one in Mrs. Yes, working from home may have become the norm, but having a dedicated home office remains the stuff of dreams for most of us who have only a bed desk for company.īut why, we cry, should square footage (or a dire lack of) restrict us from having stylish and motivating work from home spaces?! Actually, it shouldn't. No one asked for it, of course, but why would that stop them? As we sit at our kitchen tables surrounded by last night's dirty dishes (or put our backs out working from our beds) they're sharing countryside views from their ergonomic desk chair, candles that burn as they type and bunches of flowers that sit pretty next to their laptops.

There has been a very sudden (and unwanted) proliferation of Instagrammers sharing WFH spaces that don't also double up as a kitchen/bedroom/dressing table.

While the desire of many to make isolation Instagrammable has largely faded with the third national lockdown of the pandemic (with the exception of those 'working' influencers who've taken it upon themselves to jet off to Dubai/the ultimate Coronavirus breeding ground), one sub-group of the brag brigade remains: The term “ Smugsolation” was coined circa April 2020: “the act of quarantining oneself during a global crisis in an enviable location (penthouse, townhouse, mansion, villa, 15-bedroom ancestral country seat) with expensive foods, booze and/or adorable pets and outdoor space and proceeding to broadcast said situation on social media (see also: tone deaf).”

Apartment sized desks with drawers