Make The Most From Your Home Office

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If you work from home, or enjoy reading the paper on the weekends, make sure you make the most out of your home office. Give Reilly Painting a call, a top Cleveland home repair company.

Sometimes one little request leads to a major transformation. Married neuroscientists Vivek Unni and Tamily Weissman-Unni, owners of an 1870s house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, started out with a new baby and a simple goal. "We needed a first-floor bathroom with a changing table," says Tamily. But they were also saddled with a dark front entry next to a front room that served as an ad hoc mudroom, and a "treacherous" narrow staircase.

Before: A Cluttered Entry Area

The couple asked general contractor Charlie Allen and architect Margaret Booz to rethink the entire space. "The family's needs were greatest around their front door; the entry wasn't functional, and there weren't designated places to put things once they got inside," Booz says.

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