Your home office needs to isolated physically and psychologically from the rest of house, ie a garden shed a cellar or attic otherwise you will find yourself being drawn into family squabbles, hunts for missing items etc

Ideally your partner should not be full-time employed so that they can do the basic chores, shopping etc (This may appear selfish but you need to be working)

You must work fixed hours, not always end up working at midnight.

Pitfalls:-
You have no colleagues to cheer you up, no peer pressure to make you stay at your desk.

I am after 7 years giving up home working it seemed to get more difficult as time went on.

Before I started I was told of one home worker who put a suit on every morning, kissed his wife at the door, walked round the block and entered his office by a side door, the instructions to his wife ‘I may be in the house but as far as you are concerned I’m not there, so you have to deal with any domestic emergency/incident’

Another who would not even open the door if his kids forgot their key.

Sounds tough and cruel but it’s the only way it can work!