Turning One Room Into An Office

My fiancee and I are in the process of buying our first house (had enough of renting), and we will soon be faced with the prospect of having to furnish the place. Luckily, the place is quite small, a flat with only 2 bedrooms, so we won’t have to try too hard to fill it!

At the moment, we rent a 3-bedroom flat. My fiancee is a teacher, and consequently has a _lot_ of files, papers, resources, etc. I have a lot of computing books, and spare hardware. We have a PC each. We therefore have two offices in our current place, one for me and one for her.

Since we will be losing a bedroom through the move, we will have to turn the one spare room in the new place into a shared office. We won’t be having a spare bed in there, so the entire space can be used for office furniture.

So basically, we need to turn the room into an office with enough desk space for 2 PCs and 2 chairs, and plenty of shelf space for books and files. The  room is about 3m x 4m. Can anyone suggest somewhere to get some good-quality office furniture that makes good use of limited space? I’ve seen some large corner desks that look like they might be the way to go, but I’d appreciate some feedback from someone who may have had a similar problem on their hands.