For those of you feeling a little frustrated with your ‘work from home’ arrangements especially while trying to home-school children, great things can grow from these feelings. Here is our tale…we built our Passive House Design and Building Science business from a desk located in our open plan kitchen/dining/lounge area. It was fine at first but then baby number 2 came along and after ‘playing’ outside at 6pm on a cold October evening with 2 young kids because a client Skype meeting was going overtime, I’d had enough. We needed a solution fast. Overheads of renting office space weren’t an option and thus our shipping container office was conceived. With our knowledge of Passive House, we knew we couldn’t build a standard performing office – you can’t unlearn things! By December we had an ugly shipping container in our back yard. Now it is a super comfortable, functional and inspiring place to work. Thank goodness for those difficult times, otherwise we’d still be having client meetings at our dining table and existing on an unhealthy work/life balance. Now from a chance meeting in the surf, we are producing a replica of our office in Portugal…once we can fly there of course. Can’t wait to see all the inspiring things created from this unusual time. #passivehouse #workfromhome #passivhaus #shippingcontaineroffice #shippingcontainerhouse
