How to design your home post Covid 19!

Lighting and Ventilation. 

Ensure all rooms have natural lighting and adequate ventilation. If the lockdown taught us anything, it is that people are not meant to sit and work from a dimly lit bed all day. A sturdy desk and supportive chair in a room with plenty of sunlight is necessary to maintain good health, eyesight, and posture. In row houses with only two exposed sides, we must optimize the natural light and incorporate multiple windows and, if possible, skylights.

Optimizing Seating Arrangements. 

Try and have various types of open spaces with different seating arrangements and capacity. For example, a formal living and dining room in one space and a family lounge in a different room, all offer unique seating arrangements that one can choose from. Further, try and incorporate some dynamic furniture that can be repurposed into a workstation in the future. For example, coffee tables with pull out desks, console tables with adjustable heights, niches in walls that can be used for storage but can be converted into a desk with the addition of a chair, extendable dining tables that can be folded or extended as the situation requires, etc.

Avoid Heavy Drapes and Fabrics.

Where possible, minimize heavy drapes and carpets as they build up more dust than the household vacuum cleaners can pick up. Instead, opt for in-built motorized or manual blinds that can be cleaned often. In our climate, it is sensible to keep floors and windows free of fabrics that can trap a lot of dust.

Home Extensions.

If possible, design a home office extension to the main house similar to a servants quarter, with a separate entrance. If not, opt for a guest suite, that can be entered via the foyer without having to enter the main parts of the house. This affords additional privacy from a noisy household if one needs a quiet room to work from.
In our Dalberg home, we partitioned an extra bedroom to create a private work cabin with a small outdoor seating area. The glass walls provided privacy and could be used as a writing space much like a whiteboard. Because this was a house, we didn’t choose traditional office furniture and instead opted for a custom desk in warm wood and an upholstered chair, and accessorized the space with potted plants and a bookshelf with framed photographs to give the space a home-like feel.

Sanitation Stations and Service Entrances.

Designate an area for a sanitiser dispenser at the main door and a cleaning station at the entrance where one can sanitize packages before bringing them into the house. In the case of independent houses, try to include a dedicated service entrance for staff which is preferably near the areas of activities like the kitchen or laundry. Have all home deliveries come through here and keep sanitizer, gloves, masks, and other PPE closeby for receiving and sanitizing packages. 

Minimize High Contact Areas With The Use Of Automation.

To minimize cross-contamination via high contact surfaces such as light switches, faucet handles, and door knobs, replace them with motion sensor lights, faucets, and doors.

Home Entertainment.

Consider incorporating a home entertainment zone such as a home theatre into the living or lounge room. With the rise in online releases of movies, clients may consider adopting a dedicated entertainment zone, complete with blackout blinds, a blank wall or pull-down projection screen to play movies on, and a built-in projector.
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