From the moleskinerie blog comes news of what has to be the ultimate writer’s office (especially for short-copy assignments):
“The team of researchers and designers based in London and at the Technical University in Munich developed the m-ch as an answer to an increasing demand for short stay living for students, business people, sports and leisure use and for weekenders. The m-ch, now in use and available throughout Europe, combines techniques for high quality compact ‘living’ spaces deployed in aircraft, yachts, cars, and micro apartments.
More to see at the manufacturer’s rather spare Web site.
As much as I like working at home, there are times I’d like working out of the home even more. And I’ve got just the place for one of these beauties.
Of course, this raises all sorts of questions about where we work. Home is convenient, cheap and allows you to do the laundry while writing Web pages.
It’s also filled with distractions.
So where is everyone else working? At home? In a rented office space? Where?
[tags]writing, office, m-ch, micro compact home, moleskinerie[/tags]
I work from a laptop on my kitchen table. Not the greatest scenario but it allows me to keep an eye on things. Eventually Mr.Ng will install an office somewhere in the house (probably the basement) but it’s the best we can do for now. Summer finds me on the back deck or pool deck, better than the kitchen table and not as close to the fridge.
Distractions abound no matter where I work.
I checked out the M-CHs. Personally, I’m fond of the Golden Cube model. I’m not really sure it really feels “Venetian” to me, but I do like it.
In the meantime, I’ll continue to split time between the Brackney homestead and the no-frills office I maintain about 30 minutes down the road in Lawrence, KS.
Carson
I liked the pastoral feel and “green” low e-home, which had photovoltaic cells for power. I have to say, the idea of my own little contained “writer’s cube” is growing on me.
Tom the Writing Hermit.
Deb: I installed wi-fi here a couple years ago and often drag the laptop out back during the summer. No better way to go.
Carson; If I had an external office, I’d probably never go there. But then, I’m reasonably lazy.
Since reading about this little cube-home yesterday I totally and utterly enamored. I even went to the manufacture’s site and started imaging building my own little cube-land where I could rent out cubes to other poor creative-types and we could build an eco-friendly cube-loving community where we all live (and work) in peace.
Good grief, I think this may be how Jonestown started….
Well, since I can’t find a way to legitimately blame it on the Underground, I’m going to blame it on environmental factors. I do, after all, live in one of the most expensive places in the world (San Francisco Bay Area) and for some reason as soon as I hit 35 I was also hit with the need (read real whiney like: neeeeeed) for a home of my own. So much so that I see the little lamp-lit windows of the m-ch and I get all warm inside and think (squeal), “Isn’t it cozy!â€
A creative camp? Be a big hit with the cubist painters.
In Cuba!
I have to agree with you Tom, the convenience of home has its downsides and I look forward to the day when I can afford to move my office out of the home – even if it is only to the end of the garden.
OK, that’s four potential Cube buyers right here on my blog. Wonder if there’s a quantity discount?
(Buy three sides of the cube, get the fourth side free!)