Russell Graves has put together an excellent blog post detailing how he has put together his off grid home office. The whole thing is well worth reading but here is a snippet:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A few months ago, I moved to a beautiful rural location in sunny farm country, and I work from home. I do some generic tech work, some battery pack rebuilding, and some teardown/analysis/reverse engineering of various gizmos. A standalone structure gives me space to work that's separate from the house. This is important to me for several reasons:
- If I share work and home space, I have a very hard time separating work from "not-work." I've learned this lesson in the past, and don't care to repeat it.
- I prefer quiet spaces, suited to concentration, for working. A house with a wife and kid isn't this. On other occasions, aggressive symphonic metal at high volumes is useful. I've worn headphones for a lot of my working life, and don't want to wear them if I don't have to.
- Some of my work involves fumes - soldering, spot welding, adhesives, etc. I don't want these in the house.
- I play with high energy battery packs. A 500Wh pack shorting out is very exciting - I want a separate space for this.
Great idea if you've got a big enough garden. Can the office be used all year round?
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