Home Office Lighting
I don’t really need a laptop, but I got one anyway for the heck of it when Vista came out. My old primary workhorse desktop PC running XP is still in my home office, chug chug chugging along doing everything I ask of it.
Well, it was.
Oh, the desktop PC’s indeed still there, working as well as it always has. But my “primary workhorse” it no longer is, even though it’s got a nice large flat-screen monitor and a really comfortable full keyboard, and XP’s still one heck of an OS (not to mention all those apps I know how to use intimately that run very well on it).
No, the desktop PC hasn’t lost favor with me at all. But still, I find myself more and more pounding away at things using my “new” laptop, right here in my dining room. Where the table is not the right ergonomic height, and the chair feels nothing like my nice expensive leather “you can sit and work on this gorgeous thing all day” office chair.
But the natural light here is to die for. At least when compared to the precious little of it I get in my home office, down in the basement.
I’m even luckier than most, with my basement having a small window and not being completely sealed off from natural light like most basements tend to be. But still, working down there requires fluorescent lighting to be on all day.
It just feels so much better up here, where the light switch is on Off for the most part. Have I been more productive? I don’t think so. But I sure have been happier.
Point: When finding a location for your home office, move “natural lighting” up your checklist of nice-to-have’s.
In many articles and guides on setting up a home office, you don’t see natural lighting mentioned much. Good lighting, yeah, but natural lighting? Not so much. We’re writers… I think the environment affects us a lot, I think enough so that, if it came down to a choice between a large basement office with no natural lighting and a small one upstairs with natural light aplenty, I’d go with the latter.
Notice I said nice-to-have, not must-have. Many of us don’t have the luxury of choice. In fact, I’ve worked down there, in the basement, quite comfortably for years (and probably will again, since Mrs. Wordpreneur isn’t very happy with my taking over the dining room table). But if that natural lighting option is available to you, I say take it.
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