You should be careful with adjusting the number of months that the office was used during the year because the home office must still be used regularly and exclusively to qualify at all.
The TurboTax audit risk meter may or may not be in line with what the reality of audits is with the IRS. I would personally be more concerned with filing a complete and honest return with information and documentation to back up my claims versus trying to change something in the return to affect the audit risk meter. The change in the risk may not actually be related to the home office expense at all.
That being said, there is a way to limit the use of the home office deduction. It is in the question about how much of the income for the Schedule C business was generated through the use of the home office. It asks for the percentage of time conducting business in the home office. This sets a limitation based on the income of the business and will allow any disallowed home office expenses to be carried to future years, if you are using the actual expenses for the home office and not the simplified method.
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