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One of the greatest advantages to working from home is the opportunity to fully customize your home office to reflect your style. Gone are the days of corporate-office gray cubicles or cinder-block white walls.

“Skip the institutional-looking furniture and integrate with the decor of the room,” says Melinda Ritz, set decorator for the NBC hit comedy “Will and Grace,” which ran from 1998-2006, in an iVillage.com interview. “Trade a chair with casters for a beautiful side chair that is comfortable, but matches the rest of the room.”

Surround yourself with beautiful and meaningful things that speak to you on a personal level to keep your creative juices flowing while working from home. Hey, you won’t have a corporate schmuck coming around to tell you take it down.

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Where2Shop:
Diva Dog (1109 Highland Colony Parkway, Suite H, Ridgeland, 601-856-1616);
The Pine Cone (Maywood Mart, 1220 E. Northside Drive, Suite 220, 601-713-1421);
The Rusty Wing (http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheRustyWing);
Southern Breeze Gallery (Renaissance at Colony Park, 1000 Highland Colony Parkway, Suite 5005, Ridgeland, 601-607-4147);
SummerHouse (1109 Highland Colony Parkway, Suite D, Ridgeland, 601-853-4445)

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The Mississippi Free Press produced this story through the MFP Solutions Lab, supported by the Solutions Journalism Network. This series digs into Mississippi’s systemic issues and sheds light on responses to them in other communities. Beyond just reporting on problems, these stories interrogate their causes and inspect potential solutions.