My family recently moved and we have settled into our new home. While we love our new house, it did have one glaring problem for a wanna be writer – no office space for Frugal Dad. Not to worry, as you may remember I’ve set up shop in laundry/utility rooms, bedroom corners, and even recently threatened to convert our outside storage building to a home office.

A few weeks ago I moved my home office out of the utility room (where our washer and dryer are located) into the dining room. My wife was less than thrilled with my taking over the dining room table, but I was excited to upgrade my “office” from a 4-foot folding table to an entire room.

Earlier this year my wife and I decided to stay put in our current home.  Now we are in the “how can we make this work” mode where you walk room to room with the realization that you will be here for a while, and the chances of building or buying a new home with all your needs will sit on the back burner for a while.  Here are a few ideas for making the existing space around our home more productive.  We’ve already implemented a couple of these items, and the remaining ones are on our to-do list.