MANY people say these days that they would like to work from home - but then say their home is not suitable to work from.

Don't be trapped into thinking that you need to own a modern house, complete with a dedicated study, if you want to make your dream become reality.

With a little bit of thought even a completely traditional cottage, like the one pictured, Jessups Cottage, at Lower Goatacre, near Calne, can become your base for life.

This traditional olde-worlde thatched paradise, recently on the market with Humberts with a guide price of £305,000, is Grade II listed - but that hadn't stopped the former owners converting an outbuilding into an office/studio, with heating, a wash basin, brick fireplace with a woodburner and open vaulted ceiling. Great for working and impressing clients!

You could convert the landing area in many homes into an office - and have you looked at the potential of your hall? Concentrating your working life into a small area can mean that you become much more productive, and the advent of modern broadband communications technology means you need never be out of touch with the rest of the working world.