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Taunton's Home Workspace Idea Book (Taunton Home Idea Books)

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Zimmerman does a most excellent job of showing us how living and working can be combined to enhance the human spirit. Increasingly people will be spending large amounts of time working in thier homes. We need books like this to get our thinking outside of the "let's re-do the second bedroom" way of thinking. Here's a book by a leading architect that gives people the visual examples of what's possible.

If you spend any time working in oyur home, you need to read this book.

Inspirational, professional, beautifully illustrated, there is a feast of ideas for every personality and business style to style your home office. You can spend alot or a little, this book has so many ideas to create the perfect home workplace, be it a corner closet or a barn. This book is a gold mine of ideas, whether you are creating your own work space, or do it professionally for others, this is the book to have.

This book is loaded with ideas of how to integrate a home office/workspace into a home - both existing and new homes. The book begins with one of the better discussions of planning issues related to designing a home office I have found - from defining your needs to fitting the space into the home and making sure it reflects who you are. Zimmerman then spends time discussing how to put an office in shared spaces, niches within existing rooms, taking over a spare bedroom, adding on, and even building a dedicated structure. He covers issues ranging from lighting concerns to design ideas and regulatory concerns. This is a well balanced book that is sure to help you design just the right space for your needs. There are hundreds of photos of well designed workspaces. The book would be even better if Zimmerman added a chapter specifically focused on technology issues to consider in designing a home office.

Per the Product Description: "More than 50 million Americans work at home and the work they do is as varied as the houses they live in." Of them more than 49,999,000 do not have, nor will they ever have, home "workspace" approaching the elegance described in this book.

If you have several hundred square feet for a "workspace" and several tens of thousands of dollars to devote to it, then this is the book for you. If, however, you are looking for practical ideas in setting up your "workspace" this isn't the book for you. The folks working at home in this book aren't your run of the mill home business types.

If you want a coffee table book that has some pictures of beautiful "workspaces" then get it. It is totally unrealistic for the "more than 50 million"!

The book shows for each different necessity a very good solution with simplies and also clevers recommendations. Fotoghaphy is good and was well suited selected.