Working At Hiome

From Life Hacker- How to Work From Home Effectively When You Are Short On Space by Alan Henry:

Working from home—every day or just now and then—can be great. However, not all of us have huge home offices that are perfect, productive retreats. If you don't have a ton of room to work, here are some tips to help you get things done. 
For those of us in apartments, or in homes where every room has a purpose (and none of them scream "home office"), finding a place to work at home probably means plopping on the couch with a laptop. For others, it's trying to shoehorn a desk into the kitchen or some corner of a room that's already pulling double duty. Whatever your home office looks like, here's how to make sure what you do get is as conducive to productivity as possible. 

Carve Out a Comfortable, Familiar Space to Work

The first thing to do is find a spot you can actually be productive. This can be tough if you live in a 400-square foot studio in the city, and even tougher if you share that studio with someone else, but it can be equally difficult in a 2,000-square foot house in the suburbs that you share with a spouse and two kids. If every room or every wall in your home feels like it already has a purpose, you'll need to get creative

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