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sidestepping the baby/closet debate...when you say "keep work/living space separated" I would think about two things: visual and aural. Will there be stacks of papers, projects that need to remain out on a table top for several days/months? Does your partner need a certain level of quiet to do their work? Or are they particularly noisy when doing work (on the phone a lot etc.)? Also - how do they work? Do they dig in and stay focused for hours on end? Do they need to move about in a dynamic workspace?

My partner works from home and needs to leave out stacks of books (he is a bookseller/restorer). We have a work "corner" in our living room that has a wooden partition. That way he can leave books out but I don't have to look at them when I sit on the couch. He is a pretty quiet worker and isn't distracted if I have the tv on, so sound bleed isn't a problem, but if he were on the phone all the time, we would have had to build some kind of wall to insulate the sound. He can sit for quite a long time in the corner with his computer and so to encourage him to get up and move about he made a secondary work area where he restores and packs books. It is a slab of plywood he takes out and puts on the kitchen table - there is lots of light, he is up and about, but it isn't a permanent feature in the kitchen and he always puts it away by the end of the day.

good luck!

Although I'm not a fan of the tone of some of the posts, and I think this apartment is clearly beautiful (if a bit sterile) I have to agree with bustersbest's point. Looking through the posts for the past few weeks has been great because of the variety of spaces and solutions. Now that we are down to the final 4 (in the east at least) meh. They all (seem) to have a serious amount of $ behind them.

This may be a art design classic, but it is not "good" design. Good design should take into account the user, which in this case is the map reader. This new version may be being sold as a work of art, but the original Vignelli was *supposed* to help people get around on the subway. The scale was off, straight lines for subway routes were used instead of more accurate representations...a classic example of bad design. Sorry for the rant, but I constantly have to argue to designers here at work that our audience needs to be able to *read* the designed piece we give them! It shouldn't just look pretty - good design can aspire to do both.

Nice! I really appreciate seeing apartments that have real traces of human life!