LAT Top News｜随着返岗规定推行，家庭办公室正让位于兴趣活动室

在新冠疫情期间，最受欢迎的设施莫过于时尚的家庭办公室。当时媒体纷纷宣称通勤将成为历史，居家办公才是未来趋势，许多房主甚至在自家院子里搭建临时棚屋充当办公空间。

这一未来愿景被证明只是昙花一现。五年后，从美国政府到华尔街投行等主要雇主纷纷要求员工重返办公室，其中摩根大通等企业甚至强制要求员工每周五天到岗办公。

随着企业陆续下达返岗复工令，房主们正为家庭办公室开发新用途：将闲置房间和户外扩建区域改造成普拉提室、高尔夫模拟器房间、雪茄休闲室，甚至孩子们的娱乐空间。

“我们在封锁期间将花园房改造成办公室，现在又把它重新布置成了青少年派对屋。”马克·劳森说道。他是伦敦及英格兰乡村房产咨询公司The Buying Solution的合伙人。

由于职业关系，劳森（Lawson）经常带客户看房，因此对设计风格非常熟悉。他能感觉到自己正置身于一个更大的趋势之中。最近，他注意到许多匆忙搭建的家庭办公室已被改造成他所谓的“爱好房间”。他表示，这些原本主要用于在线会议的空间，如今变成了陶艺工作室和瑜伽室。"我们看过一套房子，卖家在里面建了一个迷你烹饪学校，"他说道。

如今，房主们热衷的个性化项目正占据越来越多的居住空间——这与之前人们雇佣室内设计师精心打造理想居家办公背景、以便在Zoom会议中给同事和客户留下深刻印象的情形形成了巨大反差。

房地产公司Domus Nova诺丁山办事处负责人兼董事贾尔斯·巴雷特（Giles Barrett）表示：“我们近期有位客户将家庭办公室改造成了一间设备齐全的藏酒室。这位葡萄酒爱好者刚完成品酒师课程，希望拥有一个独立空间来探索和享受对葡萄酒的热爱。”该空间经过重新装修，配备了螺旋式酒窖、氛围照明以及堪比五星级酒店酒吧的装饰。

房地产与设计公司Banda的创始人兼首席执行官埃多·马佩利·莫齐表示，在最近为某家庭翻修海德公园联排别墅的项目中，原本计划用作书房的空间最终被改造成雪茄室，这反映出一种趋势——人们正逐渐从纯粹以工作功能为主导的空间，转向更注重培养爱好、社交娱乐及休闲放松的居室设计。

在伦敦巴特西区，苏富比国际地产的贝基·法特米（Becky Fatemi）正在代理出售一栋属于《切尔西制造》明星斯宾塞·马修斯（Spencer Matthews）的住宅。该房产特别设计了一间色彩缤纷的听音室兼播客区，取代了传统的封闭式办公空间。目前这栋住宅标价530万美元。

纽约市的情况也如出一辙。曼哈顿房产咨询公司Elevated Advisement联合创始人埃里克·布朗（Eric Brown）表示："在高端房地产领域，曾经必备的家庭办公室正在失去其王冠地位。"布朗指出，随着越来越多高净值业主每周返回曼哈顿四五次，他们的办公室正被重新定义，焕发出更具创意的第二生命。

布朗表示："曾经安静简约的书房，如今摇身一变成了热闹的男士休闲室、氛围感雪茄廊或私人鸡尾酒吧。还有些书房被改造成高尔夫模拟器套房、设备齐全的健身房，或专为儿童设计的游乐室及电子游戏室。"

他表示，在寸土寸金的纽约市，房主们正欣然接受这种转变，让闲置房间发挥多重功能。一个房间可能在清晨是安静的健身区，下午变成儿童游戏区，到了晚上又化身为精致的娱乐空间。

室内设计师和建筑师表示，他们注意到客户在施工过程中不断改变需求，家庭办公室在必备清单上的优先级正持续下降。

克列格曼建筑与设计事务所的建筑师合伙人罗斯·帕德拉克表示：“在两个项目中，我们看到家庭办公室在施工中途被改作他用。其中一间被重新设计成了客房，另一间则改成了育婴室。”

帕德拉克表示：“随着我们东北部地区大多数人重返办公室，我们发现一些客户正在寻求更好地利用家庭办公空间。”

至于Buying Solution的劳森（Lawson），他开玩笑说，把家庭办公室改造成青少年派对房间是他“做过的最棒的事”。

“孩子们带朋友回家时，可以自由活动，既不用被我们盯着，也不必在意我们的存在。大家都开心。”他说道。

拉帕波特为彭博社撰稿。

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the most in-demand amenity was a stylish home office. Headlines proclaimed that commuting was a thing of the past and working from home was the future, while homeowners were building sheds in their yards as makeshift office spaces.

That future proved to be temporary. Five years later, major employers from the U.S. government to Wall Street banks have required their staff back at their desks, with some companies such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. even requiring employees to return to the office five days a week.

In the wake of these return-to-office mandates, homeowners are now finding new uses for their offices, converting spare rooms and outdoor additions into Pilates studios, golf simulator rooms, cigar lounges and even hangout spaces for their children.

We built a garden room as an office during lockdown and have repurposed it as a teenage party room, says Mark Lawson, partner at the Buying Solution, a property buying consultancy in London and the English countryside.

Lawson is intimately familiar with design styles thanks to his career showing homes to clients, so he can sense that hes part of a larger trend. Lately, hes noticed a number of hastily built home offices that have been converted into what he calls hobby rooms. What were formerly spaces used primarily for online meetings are now pottery studios and yoga rooms, he says. We viewed one house where the vendor has set up a mini cookery school in it, he says.

Passion projects for homeowners are increasingly taking up square footage a huge turnaround from when people would hire interior designers to craft the ideal WFH background to impress colleagues and clients over Zoom meetings.

One recent client of ours turned their home office into a fully kitted-out wine room. Having completed a sommelier course, this oenophile wanted a separate space to explore and enjoy their passion for wine, says Giles Barrett, head of the Notting Hill office and director at real estate company Domus Nova. The space was refitted with a spiral wine cellar, mood lighting and decor suited to a five-star hotel bar.

Edo Mapelli Mozzi, founder and chief executive officer of property and design company Banda, says that on a recent project renovating a Hyde Park town house for a family, what was originally planned as a study was ultimately converted into a cigar room, reflecting a shift were seeing away from purely work-focused spaces towards rooms that encourage hobbies, entertaining and retreat.

In Battersea, Becky Fatemi from Sothebys International Realty is currently selling a house belonging to Made in Chelsea star Spencer Matthews, which features a colorful listening room/podcasting area in lieu of a more traditional closed-off office space. The home is listed for $5.3 million.

Its a similar story in New York City. In luxury real estate, the once must-have home office is losing its crown, says Eric Brown, co-founder of Manhattan-based estate agency Elevated Advisement. Brown says that as more high-net-worth homeowners are back in Manhattan four or five times a week, their offices are being reinvented, finding more creative second lives.

Formerly quiet, minimalist studies are now doubling as lively man caves, moody cigar lounges or private cocktail bars, says Brown. Others have been transformed into golf simulator suites, fully equipped gyms or kid-focused play or video game rooms.

Homeowners in New York City, where space is at a premium, are embracing this shift, he says, and letting their spare rooms serve multiple functions. A room might start the day as a calm workout spot, serve as a kids gaming zone in the afternoon and then evolve into a sophisticated entertaining space by night.

Interior designers and architects say theyre seeing clients change their minds on what they need during the middle of a construction project, with a home office falling further down the list of must-haves.

On two projects, weve seen home offices get repurposed midconstruction. One was reimagined as a guest room and the other a nursery, says Ross Padluck, architect partner at Kligerman Architecture & Design.

With most of us in the Northeast back in the office, we are finding some clients looking for better uses for home office space, Padluck says.

As for the Buying Solutions Lawson, he jokes that getting rid of his home office in favor of a teenage party room was the best thing hes ever done.

Our kids bring their friends home, and they can do what they want without us seeing them or them seeing us. Everyone is happy, he says.

Rappaport writes for Bloomberg.