As local roads become increasingly congested, over 900,000 Bay Area households have joined the ranks of the more than 43 million Americans who work at least part-time out their homes. While employees may have driven the popularity of telecommuting, employer savings will help the trend flourish. A recent study discovered that Bay Area companies save more than $8,000 in office space per telecommuter each year, and telecommuters outperform in-office workers by 16% in accomplishing similar tasks. To furnish a serious home office, an old door placed across a couple of filing cabinets or a second-hand desk cannot adequately support the thousands of dollars spent on electronic and communications equipment for the average home office. In addition, with more than 33% of home offices sharing the family room and another 23% invading the bedroom, home office products have to meet a demand for a higher degree of fashion and versatility than traditional home furnishings do.

Bay Area residents have an expert resource to turn to when furnishing their home offices. "For fourteen years, GALVINS has taken great pride in finding unique furnishing solutions for customer needs using techline® products," stated GALVINS' President Barry Galvin. "Other stores sell desks, file pedestals, and chairs, but few offer the total package like we do. Our project managers work with customers' room dimensions or conduct in-home consultations to design efficient workspaces. We try to work with standard products as much as possible to keep costs reasonable but we do offer custom modification of certain key pieces, such as work tops, to give an office a custom-built look at an excellent price." techline® has a wide variety of materials that you can choose to personalize your system. For cabinetry, doors, drawer fronts, and work surfaces, you can select laminates in Antique White, White/White, Black, Oyster Gray, Hardrock Maple, Honey Maple, Cocoa Maple, Oiled Cherry, American Cherry and Windsor Mahogany. In addition techline has six different pull styles to give your system added design flair. In addition to techline®, GALVINS features the Bay Area's widest selection of high-quality furnishings for home offices from the world's finest manufacturers. For more information, tour our main store web site at www.galvins.com.

GALVINS' team of experienced and friendly professional space planners is ready to assist you in selecting the furniture that will best meet your home office needs. Just bring your room measurements to our beautiful large showrooms for a free design consultation or call to schedule an in-home design consultation. Following the consultation, you will receive a detailed drawing and quotation for a complete furniture system.   Our space planners have identified the following areas as best uses for techline® home office settings: For home offices which require expansive work surfaces and maximum storage in limited space. For home offices that require the flexibility of modular furniture to meet changing needs. For designing custom, wall-to-wall home offices to fit virtually any space. To design creative and functional work areas in awkward residential spaces. We look forward to serving you.