We converted our loft into an office for the business. Lots of room and well lit with two sky lights, although if you're over 6 foot you'd struggle to stand up straight!
Not great for entertaining clients, so I tend to visit them at their premises.
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mines rented offices in a shared building. There's also an architects business and a property management company in there but the buildings big and the businesses are all completely segregated so the only time that I see people from the other companies is in the shared kitchen area when I'm grabbing a coffee.
I think one of the things that motivated me that way was that I found that I had stopped dressing for work when I work from home. It may only seem like a little thing but there's definitely a work mindset that comes with having to don the suit and drive into the office at a set time each day.
When working at home all too often it would be, ok, just got to do some housework, or, wonder if anyone needs any help on the site, or, I'll do it after Jeremy Kyle. When you go into the office that's a totally different mindset.
It's probably I'm just too weak to discipline myself into a work attitude all the time at home. (note that at home there are actually two totally seperate dedicated offices but I still know that it's home so although it might look like an office environment it still feels to me as though I'm sitting in a converted bedroom).
All the best,
Shaun.
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Shaun
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I'm in an office also, same as Shaun in that there are other businesses in there as well (who I now act for half of, the others will come round lol). My main motivation for the office is not wanting clients in my house again, and also we live in the sticks whereas the office is in a central location, densely populated with businesses and it's easy to find.
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Did two years from home, but then the kids wanted their bedroom back, so we bought a terraced house and converted to an office. We did this as it was cheaper than renting an office which would have been smaller, plus it was 2006 when it was easier to get a mortgage!
I know the feeling Andrew. I went berserk a few years ago and bought piles of stuff on Ebay. Two fax machines but I only use one, an A3 printer that I don't think i ever got round to buying ink for. Add to that three computers no longer used and 4 old style CRT monitors no longer used. My tiny flat is getting smaller and smaller.
As for books, I don't think I could ever put any books I've bought for sale on Ebay. All these bookkeeping books are building up now. And 6 ringbinders from Ideal Schools which although I've sat the exams I couldn't bear to part with them.
I've got a camera - but I'm too embarrassed to take a photo. I can't even throw away supermarket receipts - they're all stapled away in three month bundles.
I also have an obsession with buying plastic boxes to store things in. There's a tower of them in the hallway about 6 or 7 foot tall - a friend named them "the leaning tower of Peasie".
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I saw an extreme version of one of those recently. I commented at the time I dreamt of being like her. I hate going into rooms that have everything tidied away and there's nothing to look at apart from a TV.
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