If you freelance or run a small business, chances are you do a lot of work from home. Chances are also pretty good you didn’t think your home office through.

While a laptop and an internet connection is all some of us need to get work done these days, there’s obviously a lot more to setting up a home office. Most of us also need space to do all kinds offline and manual work. But the fact that it takes next to no effort to set up shop virtually anywhere in the world can cause many of us to get sloppy.

Standards have lowered when it comes to what freelancers feel makes a home office truly professional. While this will forever be a subjective matter, there are plenty of basic, often overlooked, improvements that will make your home office work for you.