Home Office Sheds, Pt. II

No sooner did I write about home office sheds than what do I find in my emailbox? Why an invitation from none other than Bob Staake, one of the coolest digital illustrators walking the face of the Earth, inviting me to come take a look at his home office studio shed.

Okay, so it's not like Bob actually invited me over to his place to knock down a cold one and hang out on the bright orange couch while he knocked out his latest creations ... he invited me (and a whole bunch of Friends 'o Bob) over to take look at his very cool 12 x 20 studio shed on his website.

This is one sweet little studio. Not only does it have a loft, but it has a full basement, as well ... quite rare for a structure with such a small, slender footprint. The fireplaces are especially noteworthy ... the retro 70s metal fireplace is nifty, but the Fiestaware chip covered masonry fireplace is downright wicked.

I met Bob back in the day (1998), when I profiled his website in PageMill 3 f/x and design. I had come up with the SOHO Shed (small office home office) shed idea two years earlier, for that book's predecessor, Web Publishing with Adobe PageMill 2.

Could I have subliminally influenced Bob to build a home office studio shed? Could this influence me to finally get off my duff and pen another dead tree book? Is truth stranger than fiction? I've been mulling over a coffee table book, not about coffee tables, mind you, but about home office sheds ...