It depends. If you are calculating your home office deduction using a percentage of the square feet and taking depreciation on part of the home, then a capital improvement that pertains to the entire home such as a generator could be added as a separate asset and depreciated as well.
Whether you deduct the cost of an expenditure for the current year or recover it through depreciation over several years depends on whether it was for a minor repair or replacement or resulted in a capital improvement to your home.
Capital Improvements extend the life of your asset and are not an ongoing repair expense. This would include the improvements to the part of the home not related directly to the home office. In other words, any capital improvements to the entire home are eligible to be use as part of the cost of your home. For any year after the year your business began, you would add an asset called improvements. The home office use percentage will be applied to this new asset.
For example, if you repair some minor damage to the floor, that could be seen as a current year expense. If, however, you replaced the flooring throughout the home, the new flooring would be listed as a new asset subject to depreciation.
The difference between repairs and capital improvements is also discussed in this TurboTax tips article.
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