When choosing home office furniture you can expect to find a far wider range of styles and sizes than you would find when buying desks and chairs for a working office. It seems that office furniture designers take a much freer approach when creating desks, chairs and workstations that they know will be used in conjunction with home decor. So you might very well find a corner computer desk made in a flat black steel with a glass top that matches perfectly your glass and wrought iron dining room table. Or you may be able to locate with no problem a suede fabric office chair that perfectly matches the sofa in your family room.
It seems the assortment of colors, fabrics and materials used in creating home office furniture exceeds the available options for the work environment. Because it is unusual for an office environment desk to back up to a wall and include a superstructure one seldom sees the intricacy of design for those products as found in the home variation. Another note is that while the office desk rarely needs filing capacity, the home office requires such so that individual family members can have a certain degree of privacy for their materials.