Ernest Hemingway wrote some of his books on the second floor of a carriage house on his wife’s estate in Key West. Here’s what it looks like:
Kathy Sierra does her writing from an amazingly cool Airstream trailer that’s parked next to her house:
The thing that makes both of these spaces so attractive for a home office is the physical separation from the house. The small amount of friction that’s involved in walking out of your house to go into another ‘dwelling’ greatly reduces the amount of interruptions in your day (I work in a public library when not at a client site).
The Airstream has the additional feature of being portable. Hmmm … I wonder if I can swing one of these in the next household budget :)
