At one time, about the only activities that people regularly engaged in at home were hobbies, study or leisure and entertainment. Then, along came computers and then the internet and a whole world of new home based opportunities opened up.
SOHO
Not the red light district that you may have heard about in London but an acronym for small office/home office which is a category of small business based anywhere in the world and, usually, as the name implies, operated by someone out of their own home. The nature of these businesses is often such that they operate across both national boundaries and time zones and, as a result, people doing this type of work might need to at their most productive at times when the rest of us are soundly tucked up in bed asleep. This might make the home worker seem somewhat anti-social to the other members of the household.
Separate Your Home Office From Your Domestic Life
Even if you do not work odd hours, your activities can clash with the more social home life of your family. You might be working away on the dining room table after diner and struggling to meet a deadline while everyone else is trying to watch something on the TV – the two rarely match. Your income might be important to the family but that does not mean that they should clear out of the house whenever you wish to work. Conversely, your going out and renting an office rather defeats the object of working from home. But, what other options are open to you?
Was Your House Built On A Reasonably Sized Plot?
If so, the chances are that there will be a garden shed somewhere out in the back. It might just be possible to clear it out, wire it up for electric power, put in a desk and chair and move yourself and your home office business out there? Possible yes – but it probably isn’t all that practical.
However, let this idea mature in your mind a little while and it could be the road to your working salvation. There are many designs of prefabricated garden structures that can be purchased and erected with a minimum of bureaucratic restrictions. Maybe they are, strictly speaking, glorified garden sheds but some are so well designed and fitted out that you would be happy to use them as a granny flat let alone the perfect home office right in your own backyard.
Greenwood Homes & Granny Flats have such a varied range of structures that you could easily find one of their Office Sheds – The Perfect Home Office in Your Backyard to suit your own home based business.
