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How to Create Your Own Cafe at Home
Need a cafe to write or work best? Not anymore!
Cafes are a great place to get work done. They’re different to a home office, regular office or even a library. Maybe it’s the cliche, the idea of an artist grinding away in a cozy little cafe, typing away at what will become their bestselling debut novel, or laying the foundation for a blog that is about to go viral.
A cafe is where you go when you really need to focus, or when you simply need a good cup of coffee and home just isn’t doing the trick. I could probably write an entire article on why I love writing in cafes, but that wouldn’t do either of us much good right now.
Because in a lot of places, cafes are currently closed or challenging to reserve a spot in. But that isn’t the only reason that we should learn how to make our home cafe. There are more moments when we won’t be able to go to a cafe, such as when we need to budget, when we’re feeling under the weather or when something requires us to stay in the house. So we need to stop depending on the concept of a cafe for productivity and learn how to achieve that same utopian benefit in our own homes.
So let’s break it down and discover how we can achieve that cozy cafe vibe without even opening our front door.
Use an external speaker
This may come across as super random, but I wanted it to be my first point as it has been a complete gamechanger for me in terms of heightening productivity. I love writing with sound in the background, even songs with lyrics, but for some reason, I was really struggling to maintain focus at the start of working from home. I was experienced with writing for periods with music playing, but suddenly I had all day and no other sound. Having earphones in just made music too distracting, and playing it from my laptop in front of me just felt offputting. I couldn’t put my finger on the issue, why the music in a cafe felt perfect whilst at home it felt like an attack on my focus.
Then I tried using an external speaker like a UE Boom that my boyfriend had lying around. I soon realized how poorly the sound from a laptop is when I used this speaker. I put it on the bookcase to the right of my desk and played my music through it. And it…
