A bit OT, but there has always been at least in some minds, the idea that a designer ought to live and office in somewhat well designed architectural spaces. How could a designer not need to be surrounded by good design? Lots of architects have spent tons to achieve a look of prestige when clients come calling. I remember paying about $12 per sf annually when I had an office, and finding out another paid $84 per annual SF "to keep up appearances." ouch.
That said, I think the Pete Dye model may have changed that, and working out of the house also became common after 2008, both for cost and because of technology - I can drop box drawings anywhere, and use Skype or similar if I need face to face time to get the plans drawn. FWIW, when gas hit $4 a gallon in about 2012, I gave up a nice office and moved to the house, figuring gas wouldn't ever go down again. (Obviously, I was wrong) I also correctly noted that very few clients really go to the office, as I usually have to go to them.
And, also a bit OT, as I finally moved out of a semi custom suburban tract house to a new zero lot line community. No one in the golf biz wants to mow lawns as they age...… I bought the builder's close out model so I would (finally) live in a well decorated house. But, it's in a nice community in an older suburb. I love giving the directions from the airport to visitors - turn at the Home Depot, go by the warehouses, past the strip clubs, past the oil refinery, past the last strip club, past the concrete plant, and under the railroad tracks. When you get to the city dump, turn left and I am a few streets in.
It's pretty hard to make a first impression under those circumstances.