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Inviting your business into your home is one
thing. But inviting your business clients into your home?
That's something else altogether.
"It's an intensely personal choice whether to open your home
to the stresses of business life," says Claire Tamburro, a
designer in Arlington, Va., who has a background in
residential home offices. "There are design challenges, issues
with friends and neighbors. It can be done, but it is a big
step."
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Are you comfortable letting those who pay you see where--and
how--you live? Do you need a physical barrier between your
professional and personal lives? An accountant who specializes
in single-person operations might be perfectly comfortable
sitting down with clients at her dining room table. A
therapist might want to maintain a professional distance that
precludes clients from feeling as if they're friends being
invited inside.
There are very few rights and wrongs here, but there is one
hard rule: No children within earshot or eyeshot when clients
are around. The sounds of a sibling throwdown or a too-loud
cartoon kills the professional atmosphere, as does pushing
away family clutter to make room for a client. |
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