Offices for Github. San Francisco, California. Architecture by Fennie+Mehl. Interior design by Studio Hatch. Photography by Eva Kolenko.

There’s no place like home, Dorothy famously declares at the end of the classic 1939 film Wizard of Oz. Today, we in the design and building industries might be tempted to add “— except for the office.”

For that we can thank the growing influence of resimercial design. A synthesis of commercial and residential elements, resimercial...