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Chapter 14 ✦ Creating Your Own Workspace

Featured Photographers: Anne and Bill Holland

www.hollandphotoarts.com

Bill and Anne operate Holland Photo Arts, a successful digital wedding business in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Bill was kind enough to share the details of his home-office setup to provide a little peek behind the curtain,

so to speak, in this family-owned business.

Office space

We work out of our home. My office is in our basement, which is also a partial living area, but it enables me

to largely separate work and personal environments. Anne’s office is in a recently completed addition to our

home, which she painted just the way she wanted it — hot pink! This new space gives her a great view of the

back yard and her own dedicated office space with lots of storage capability.

While it’s extraordinarily convenient having a ten-second commute, part of our business has involved learn-

ing how to balance our work life with our personal lives. In the early years, we worked constantly with hardly

a day off. Now we’re taking a little more time off, but it’s difficult to do when your computer is sitting right

there, beckoning for attention. We spend a lot of time communicating via e-mail with our clients, so it makes

sense for us to maintain office hours to aid with the balance.

Computers

We’re an all-PC shop. We both had extensive PC experience prior to opening our business, so it made sense ...