Best Space Heaters for a Home Office
Toiling away in a drafty attic or basement? These high-quality space heaters will help keep you comfortable—and productive
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If you’re one of the many Americans working from home at least some of the time, you know how important it is to have a comfortable and functional home office space. But as the weather gets chilly, you might find your comfort is compromised, especially if you’ve set up shop in an attic, a basement, or any drafty part of your home. Here’s where a good space heater comes in. In our tests of more than 150 space heaters, we’ve found some worthy stand-alone models that can kill the chill and keep you focused during work hours.
Best Space Heaters Overall
Here are two small space heaters that performed well in our room-heating and spot-heating tests.
Best Space Heaters for Room Heating
If you share a workspace, these models from Honeywell and Lasko do a great job of raising the temperature of an entire room—and one offers an elevated design, too.
Best Space Heaters for Spot-Heating
If you’re the only one in a room, you’ll appreciate how toasty these heaters can make you feel. But choose wisely, based on your room size—one heater is large and the other is small.
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article also appeared in the February 2021 issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
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