[stevekemp]

My biggest tip was to have a "work computer" and a "personal computer". Resist the temptation to switch the work computer on when you're not working.

Otherwise you want to get a good routine; none of that making coffee for hours, or doing the laundry. During the working-day you're supposed to work.

Otherwise the single biggest thing I needed was to leave the house every day - Regardless of how much food I had at home I'd always go out to the sandwich store every day to make sure I had some away-time, and a little conversation. (Granted most evenings I'd see people, but working day-in, day-out at home "alone" contact is important.)

[gbrhaz]

Rather than having two physically separate computers, just having a work "user account" on the single computer might be enough.

[stevekemp]

I worked from home for seven years, and am doing so again as a contractor after a brief stint in an office that didn't work out (less than a month).

Having two machines made sense for me, along with two phones, but as a compromise two logins would work. The appeal of two hosts is that you do have the chance to write one off, or have it be provided/maintained by your employer.

I always used a KVM so I could only physically control one host at a time, but I guess you get the same clean separation if you used different logins.