When Wayne West took early retirement after a quarter-century with IBM in Toronto, he had already been planning to set up his computer-hardware consulting business. He and his wife, Jeannine, were also planning to move to a retirement home.
Both plans worked out well. They moved from the big city to the Stonecroft community, in New Hamburg, Ont., and West, now 64, set up a home office in the basement of their new home. And that, according to design experts like Jessica Cotton and David Sapelak, is where he made his mistake.
He’s corrected it, though – in recent months, West has moved his office to one of the best rooms in the house, a bright, light-filled space designed...
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