Shame working from home is seen in this light. I tend to believe that a professional sets up a home office which has a door that can be locked. My wife and myself, in around 20something years of professional work, worked solely from home 15 of those. And the others were like 1-2 office days per week and then home. We always set up an office and work when we are there. We work 2x2x3 or 2x3x3 hours per day depending on load and the rest we spend with friends and/or walking and/or shopping. I never saw this lonely, porn watching, crap eating version of the home office. And people I know who work from home do not get this stigma either. Maybe if you live in SV, your rent only pays for one room with the bed in it and you live of ramen (that seems to be the typical home worker stereotype in the media). But why would one want to do that? Then working from home is only a pain?
There are no norms for working from home. Hence nearly the first thing you discover is how much you respected the norms you were familiar with before and how far afield you will go before you decide to rein in your lifestyle.
I work from home and I go days without putting on clothes, I get my groceries delivered and don't leave the house for weeks. It's become sort of an adventure but I basically turned the house into a spa so I'm staying relaxed.
I started working in my house and I loved it till a lot of distractions started to be in between, so I made a list and create a little office inside , loved the idea and the little office was growing Everytime and some friends loved to come work with me , after a year I found I was having enough friends working and some of them living in my place. So I decided to make it more public and now I have a coliving and coworking space in the same place, I haven't had to call the police, but some neighbors do it once in a while because of some of our random noisy nights