Working at home has its advantages: more time at home, and you’re closer to the family.
It also has its disadvantages: more time at home and you’re closer to the family.
Despite that, the advantages can be greater that the disadvantages with some serious planning. But just planting a desk in the corner of the den or bedroom does not an office make. Obviously, there needs to be some separation between the home, and the “home office”.
In practical terms, you need a space separated and insulated enough to eliminate or at least reduce the daily distractions of home life: the TV in the living room, the clatter of pots and pans in kitchens, kids playing in the yard. That means a space that is remote, yet accessible. Most home have a place like that, or at least a space that can be converted to place like that without distracting and disrupting the normal activities of the rest of the family.
It’s called: “the Basement”.
Conveniently separated from the living areas of your home, basements can be designed and transformed into offices to accommodate your professional needs for both privacy and accessibility. Primary requirements are: light, heat, electrical wiring and outlets for fax machines, printers and connections for phone and computer. Not to mention a separate entrance for clients and space for all of the above. This is not a Do-It-Yourself project.
Basements are generally underused spaces, but prime real estate for renovations that can add more usable space for recreation or business. Houseworks Unlimited can renovate a basement into an office with telephone jacks and separate circuits for computers and other office equipment, making that dark, cold empty basement space into a comfortable, furnished office space to handle clients, and even a secretary.
