I have been wanting to re-decorate my bathroom at home for a long time now and as I work from home I am going to control my diary this week to enable me to do this job in between my everyday work from home jobs.

Decorating tasks are best attempted in daylight. Artificial light is quite acceptable for winding down in, watching television et cetera, however isn’t really good enough for detailed operations such as painting doorframe edges or carefully trimming wall coverings. Therefore postponing the decorating task to late in the day, after the work is finished, isn’t a great option.

I need to be sure though that I get all my important work from home jobs out of the way first. I will get up significantly earlier than I am in the habit of doing and be certain I am at my desk as early as possible. I do generally online jobs, mainly writing, so I can carry these out whenever I like. When these important tasks are completed I plan to switch my activity for the remainder of the day between my work jobs and my decorating. That way I am bringing variety into my work from home routine, it might provide a nice change and help the day to pass more pleasantly.

The idea is to get all jobs finished by tea time, so none of this will eat into my wind down time during the evening.

One snag might be answering phone calls. I can use my wireless headset and accept calls whilst working as I can easily break off most decorating jobs. But for some jobs, for example painting, I will need to use my voice mail and pretend I am otherwise engaged.

Work from home permits great flexibility to work in this way and provided you organize things to make sure all your important jobs are carried out first, it provides a brilliant way of getting even quite sizeable domestic tasks done without encroaching too much on leisure time.

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