Practice Management

I get mail every week from attorneys who have qualms about practicing from home.  The desire is there, but the concern centers around family and other obligations, a lack of space, or just the need to have the home office physically away from the rest of the household.

Now, combine this with the visual need of some lawyers for an exciting and dynamic office space.  After all, we are a visual people and we want to feel comfortable in a real office environment sometimes.

I have written about shed work or back yard offices before.  I will undoubtedly do so again because I see it as a real solution to the visual, artistic, separate space, office environment difficulties some lawyers have with the home office and the carpet commute.

So, I was happy to read on Treehugger that these so-called "garden sheds" allow for a great deal of architectural experimentation.  As stated in the article, the small size and costs of these additions allows most people (in our case, lawyers) to do something different and to have some fun in the process.  To build, in effect, something we really want in an office.  Something that gives us a degree of separation.  Something that is ours to own and admire.

Here are some examples: