subject: What if Your Home Office was Needed as a Nursery for a New Baby? [print this page] What if Your Home Office was Needed as a Nursery for a New Baby?
It's not just corporate consultants who work from home. Sole-traders, partners, directors and small business owners are choosing to reassess their finances and work from a spare bedroom or dining room. The trouble is, the way young families expand, that spare room is sorely needed.
The arrival of another baby can stir worries about many aspects as life, like health, finances, living space, maternity and paternity rights, ability to cope and acceptance from siblings. Planning for the change will help ease any anxiety and maintain equilibrium by thinking logically through potential space solutions.
Dad's Office/The Nursery can become Dad's Den down the garden path. There is a full price range of garden offices available in the UK and Ireland now, consisting of various designs and degrees of thermal performance. Professional home-working spaces add a fresh spark to many businesses. Some garden office companies have the flexibility to design to suit your budget, requirements and available space. For example, contemporary garden rooms incorporate internet and phone access points, multiple power sockets, toilet facilities and built-in storage for documents and stock.
Although paper based work has been reduced by the green revolution, many businesses still need to keep historical paper records. High quality garden rooms made from BBA approved structures will keep delicate papers and digital hardware bone dry, all year round. Usual SIPS or other timber structures may not carry the best thermal values but if the structure has been independently certified by the BBA for durability and approved u-values given then the value and durability can be trusted. It may also be possible to offset the cost of your home office against your tax return as a capital asset.
Alternatively, you may choose to rent a local office space or struggle through the early weeks of sleep deprivation by working from the kitchen table. Sharing space with small children is a huge challenge, not only because of the inordinate amount of equipment they seem to need but also the noise and visual distractions they manifest. Once experienced, one can rarely remember how one lived without one!
