The Don Lever Method: Use Imaginary Zippers.

“I run my architectural design business from a 3-foot-by-3-foot coat closet at the center of my 1,200-square-foot home.  I can’t count the number of times I’ve been on the phone with a client and given my kids the death stare followed by the finger-across-the-throat signal or angrily pulled an imaginary zipper across my lips and mouthed the word silence.  Luckily, I have no employees.” -Don Lever, Fortress Architectural Design writing in response to an article about running a home-based business (March 2010 :: Inc. Magazine)