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» A Day in My Life: Weekend Version — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:31:38 +0000

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By: vashti

vashti — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:40:40 +0000

My guy also works at home and it’s supposed to be blissful but it’s surprising how easy it is for me to get annoyed. I’m not a TV person for example, so I grit my teeth when the TV goes on while I have a design jam happening. My studio/office experience is completely different when I’m alone in the house, but if I’m alone too much I get lonely. I can get work-related lonely even when he’s home and sometimes I do a weird restless pacing thing. Actually this happens more often when I’m blocked about a design/problem-solving, or when I’m writing the pattern. I can spend too much time on the ‘net as part of this restlessness and/or work-lonely thing. Ultimately I’m not complaining though! I much prefer it over any other job I’ve had!!

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:39:53 +0000

I see some clarification is needed.

@Carol - I see your concern, but I’m confident this isn’t an iteration. For years I’ve worked either in the garage or in the living/dining room, with occasional (and now more frequent) jaunts to coffee shops. So my home-office plan is just a solution to the problem of my work stuff piling up in the living/dining room and annoying the man a lot (and also sometimes it annoys me). But I do appreciate your entrepreneurial spirit. (I’ve considered seeing if I can join up at Workspace”; a year’s membership would cost as much as the desk :)

@mmt - No war involved. I think it’s cool that the man would prefer me to put my stuff away after a reasonable amount of time. My solution is to have an option that’s inside the house.

@Robyn - It’s a challenge! :)

By: Robyn

Robyn — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:57:28 +0000

I giggle only because as I type this I am day dreaming of how to make the dining room my office and a dining room. We do have a real office, but that’s all the way upstairs…

By: mmt

mmt — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:16:18 +0000

For want of a desk the war was lost? I don’t think it’s that simple. Because I’ve designed for 20+ years, there is a certain acceptance of disorder that comes with the territory. For instance: if I have one skein of every color of every yarn of several companies to swatch with, that’s a lot of stuff to keep organized, especially since the design process requires mixing and matching and pretty soon there’s mountains of stuff that insane deadlines don’t give me the time to put away in a timely manner. If I ever win the lottery (which is NOT gonna happen because I don’t even buy tickets)I would hire a clutter expert to design something that works. But for now, I’m settling for total chaos sometimes and an almost anal cleanup after whatever rush is happening.

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:31:39 +0000

But then won’t you soon just need a change of scenery from the home office as well? And then need a second home office? And then a third? And then pretty soon your whole house will be filled with nothing but home offices?

Hmmm. But then you could like rent out the extra office space. That’d be kinda cool. There might be some zoning restrictions to work around. And parking might get to be a problem. But I think you should look into this.