Looking Back – 10 Years of Salt: Why we Needed an Office

I was looking through my old MySpace Blog , when I came across a slideshow I made back in April 2008. We were in the process of negotiating the lease on our office and I was reaching the end of my tether. Salt had been based in a room stuck at the back of our home, just off the living room (next to the TV) for 8 years, but had gradually encroached on every available inch of space throughout the house. At the same time, our family had grown, with each of the 5 human occupants having to compete for space with the boxes of Salt books, and the boxes were winning!

Here is the slideshow. Sympathy, please:

Two months later we moved in and our lives changed dramatically: newly-found glorious space, floors and walls that weren’t cardboard-box coloured and a working space with a view of a high street, not the fence of our back garden, not to mention a lovely view of the Co-op across the road where we could watch people buying their lunch. I can’t say that our house is much tidier than it was before, but at least I no longer lose the children’s birth certificates in the pile of submissions. Here’s a video I made of our new office, back in the days before it became as messy as the old one: