Agreed that Joel has a great office.  But you can't move your whole office with you when you need to collaborate closely with other people.<p>In building some of the V2 houses we figured out that having a door (that you tend to leave open all the time) directly behind you wasn't a great thing.  The new ones have the door offset to one side so there's no "over my shoulder" feeling and it feels more private.  To get light we have three much larger windows now, an opening at each end on the roof line and two skylights in each.<p>You can read about our design session with door placement here:
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