Before we moved, we lived in a 900 sq. ft. duplex with a multipurpose kitchen that served as our cooking room, dining room, home office, and school room. When we bought this house we added about half again as much living space. The kids now get their own bedrooms and though the kitchen is smaller now, we gained a finished room in the basement that has been turned into a family room/school room! On one end of the room is a bright fluorescent light in the ceiling. I positioned our table near it because it lends itself well to bookwork. We all sit at this table when we need to fill out worksheets or write or draw or color. There is built in storage behind the table that we use to corral all our school books for the year. We haven't implemented workboxes since the move and might not since things have been working so smoothly for us so far this year. Hubby's treadmill is down there which is nice when it's bitter cold outside and one of the...