Create the perfect country home office with our pick of the best designs for every room size and space, and however much budget you have to play with. Seeking more decorating ideas? Browse our traditional home office schemes or be inspired by our gallery of modern home office pictures – there’s a home office style for all tastes.
This simple country scheme is timeless and creative. Visually integrate your work space with notice boards prettified with wallpaper offcuts or painted cork tiles. Or, add a mirror and it becomes a vanity, too. Here, this scheme avoids citrus yellows – you want to create a mellow glow.
Get the look
Buy now: Beeswax pure matt emulsion, £46.50 for 2.5L, Paint & Paper Library
Buy now: Rudyard desk, £545, Loaf
If you love the mellow combination of succulent green, soft pink and charcoal, try them all together in a wallpaper like this on-trend painterly design. It’s perfect for an uplifting, feminine look in a home office.
Get the look
Buy now: Jane Churchill Beatrice wallpaper J162W-03 Aqua wallpaper, £62 a roll, Wallpaper Direct
Buy now: Similar Carter desk, £1,210, Neptune
Turn an underused area of a room into a creative space for working, wondering and social media meandering. Style up this work nook with Scandinavian inspired furniture and accessories against a knotted wood-effect wallpaper for a modern country feel.
Get the look
Buy now: Cole & Son Wood Grain wallpaper, £70 a roll, Amara
Buy now: Peg-it-all Little Pegboard, £115, Kreis Design
Keep all of your craft supplies to hand with a pretty and practical craft corner. This home office space has cube shelving perfect for storing all manner of box and magazine files, jars and accessories. A painted wooden chest doubles up as a seat with the addition of a few comfy cushions.
Similar cube shelving
Ikea
Similar cushions
Not on the High Street
Make great use of your living space or loft conversion by setting up a craft area in a corner of the room. Set up your sewing machine and craft materials on a sturdy wooden desk and choose a comfortable chair. Display craft project ideas, fabric swatches or colourcards on a pinboard above your desk as inspiration.
Similar noticeboard
Not on the High Street
Similar vintage desk
Etsy
Combine a workspace for your laptop and stationary with garden planning at a desk against a wall of colour and creativity. This home office has a beautiful meadow-themed wallpaper and a memo holder that displays pictures, garden finds and treasures to inspire plans and planting from season to season.
Desk
Loaf
Wallpaper
Meadow Canvas by Sanderson at Wallpaper Direct
Create a welcoming home office scheme full of pretty country style with a palette inspired by glorious summer meadows. Balance out the top-to-toe yellow with a ditsy floral fabric on a mainly neutral toned background. A classic chair has been given a thoroughly modern update with grey paint.
Desk
Loaf
Blind
Clarke & Clarke
Upcycle rustic storage. Make a shelf unit from wooden crates and paint in spring shades of eco-friendly paint. Wooden crates don’t have to be expensive and even less than perfect ones are easy to make pretty and practical. A set of stencils, a tester pot of paint, a stencil brush and a steady hand is all you need to make it pretty.
WallpaperSanderson
Boxes
Ikea
Open up a small home office with pretty wallpaper and perfectly fitting furniture. The mint green floral feature wallpaper cuts through clutter in this compact space and creates an uplifting country look. The warm wood desk could almost be made-to-measure while handy white shelves above and an adjacent bookcase keeps everything within easy reach.
Wallpaper
Sanderson
Similar desk
Loaf
Give your craft room bright and breezy summerhouse style with neutral tongue an groove walls and pale wood flooring. Then create your perfect dressmaker’s corner and an at home haberdasher’s stocked with essential tools and accessories. Keep fabrics together with a handy and attractive pom-pom basket and tie the subtle scheme together with a hanging pom-pom garland above.
Create an inspirational hobby space with a stylish yet functional desk and plenty of visual aid. This desk with its on-trend mix-and-match painted drawers, is the perfect place to try your hand at modern calligraphy. Prop pretty artwork up on the shelf and use the pretty pastel draws for special writing paper and journals.
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Create a relaxed and comfortable feel with wood cladding. Versatile and beautiful, wood is one of the most widely used materials in the home. It has strength, resilience, natural beauty and adaptability, as seen here in this cabin-style space. The desk has been carpenter clad in copper for added interest.
Desk, chair and lamp
One World Trading Company
Bohemenian prints will bring a punch of panache to your home office and creative space with engerising new florals in zippy colours. Anchor the busy pattern with painted pieces of furniture in shades lifted from the vibrant wallpaper. Enhance the Romany caravan style with artefacts and embroidery hoops displayed on a rustic shelf above.
Wallpaper
Clarke and Clarke
Desk
Scumble Goosie
This craft room makes use of every inch of its cellar space. The owner uses it to house her collection of offcut fabrics. Storage is squeezed into every nook and cranny, with floor-to-ceiling shelves, a mini distressed sideboard with desktop drawer unit and homemade creations filling every spare wall space.
Similar chair
Wayfair
Similar sideboard
Maisons du Monde
Mount a length of wallpaper in a picture frame to act as a backdrop to treasured pieces that you’ll love to look at. Choose a paper in muted colours so that your belongings will stand out without being overshadowed. A pretty floral or leafy pattern in neutral tones will work well and will mean that your board is an attractive feature in its own right, even on occasions when it’s sparsely decorated.
Wallpaper
Liberty
Lamp
Dickins & Jones at House of Fraser
Want country home office decorating ideas? Take a look at this white home office with chalkboard from Country Homes & Interiors for inspiration
Chalk up everyone’s comings and goings, plus a few words of wisdom, on this weekly old-school planner. There’s plenty of space for multiple events, then you wipe if off and start again at the end of the week. A retro-style chair is a fitting companion piece, especially with a tie-on seat pad in a pretty country-inspired fabric.
Blackboard
Design Vintage
Chair
Ercol
Seat Pad
Laura Ashley
Want country home office decorating ideas? Take a look at this neutral home office with retro-style desk and chair from Country Homes & Interiors for inspiration
Create an enjoyable space to catch up with admin, pay bills or check your diary. Add a seat pad to the chair and inspiring artwork to boost levels of concentration and creativity. No home office is complete without efficient task lighting. It is important that you don’t put a strain on our eyes, so make sure you include an adjustable desk lamp that can be maneuvered over your work.
Desk
John Lewis
Chair
Ercol
Seat pad
Laura Ashley
Want country home office decorating ideas? Take a look at this neutral home office with glass lamp from Country Homes & Interiors for inspiration
Frame views with spring flower curtains and create a look in a mix of mellow blues and yellows. Take a lamp shade featuring a pretty bird design and add a feather trim, then fill the base with pretty artificial eggs. This look is not only creative, but also undeniably unique and characterful.
Curtain
Emma Hardicker
Lamp base
Laura Ashley
Shade
KatieMosa
This cute home office makes great use of an otherwise neglected space under the stairs. The country theme is ever-present due to the use of upcycled furniture and white painted wooden panels. The wooden armchair features a cushion covered in 1970s-style fabric to add another splash of colour to the room. The wall-mounted shelving unit allows the small desk to remain clutter-free.
Similar shelvingMelody Maison
Similar yellow chair
Habitat
This country home office is decorated in zingy, leafy tones to create a bring-the-garden-in atmosphere. Choose light cotton prints for windows to let the sun stream in even when your curtains are closed.
Curtain fabric
Busby
Antique desk and chair
Pimpernel & Partners
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