GREENVILLE ESTATE NAIROBI- PERFECT HOME AND OFFICE Greenville estate offers practical 3 bedroom residential maisonette units at an affordable price. Advantages include: 1. Abilitiy to separate the 3 bed roomed maisonettes into two different 1 bedroomed units each with its own external entrance. This helps incase the owner would like to re-sell or rent a part of his house. This also offers flexibility to the owner in case they want to use part of their residence as an office. 2. Landscaped 24 hour irrigated gardens. 3. 2 No. Car parking spaces per house. 4. Secure community with electric fencing. HOME OFFICE The Greenville estate unit design enables people who might require home offices to operate at ease with their offices within their residential quarters. With the current never-ending rise in fuel costs and traffic jams, home offices are becoming part of the norm especially in the developing world. The Greenville Estate home owner can use the first floor living room, kitchen and bedroom as a 1 bed roomed unit and use the second floor master bedroom as the office. The other second floor bedroom can either be used as an extension to the office or as a second bedroom depending on the owner's space needs requirements. Visitors to the office can be directed to the second floor where they do not have to come in contact with the first floor living room area. SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT Use of home offices apart from saving on transport and office rental costs will also save the environment on the carbon that could have been released into the atmosphere if the home owner had travelled to a town office. This helps make the world a little bit more ‘Green'. INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY Home offices also offer convenience and flexibility to the home owner in that he or she can work odd hours such as very late within the comfort of their home. This unique design conceptualized by the architectural firm of www.a4architect.com will go a long way in making the Greenville Estate home owner more comfortable in their work environment which in turn will lead to higher productivity levels. CONCLUSION The advantages of working from home are numerous such as flexible time schedules including very late at night, extra time to spend on families, savings on office rent , transport and meals costs. Another great advantage of working from home is that you give your customers a perceived sense of security in that they are sure to find you at the same location next time they visit hence higher trust levels as opposed to customers who visit offices in tow office setups. The Greenville Estate maisonette has been designed to facilitate such a home office whereby visitors to the office are separated from the visitors to the living room area completely with each having a separate external entry point. The home office advantages should go a long way in increasing the home owner's productivity levels hence a great investment in the long run. Francis Gichuhi Kamau Architect www.a4architect.com +254721410684