An alternative to coworking in Houston
If you have been looking for an alternative to coworking, you are probably not looking for a better version of the same thing. You are looking for something that is not that thing at all.
Junto House is that alternative. Twelve private studios at 1516 N Durham Drive in Houston Heights. Priced like a real office, because it is one.
The honest problem with open-floor workspaces
The shared-office format was built to maximize seats per square foot. That is the entire design brief. The coffee bar, the phone booths, the event calendar, the newsletter, are all there to soften the fact that you are working in a room with strangers who did not consent to being each other's neighbors. Some operators do this better than others. Some spaces are genuinely pleasant. But the trade is the same: you buy a seat in a room, and the room is the product.
If that works for your work, you do not need us. There are several good operators in Houston who will sell you a seat for $450 to $800 a month.
If it does not work, here is what we built.
What Junto House is
Twelve private studios. Each one is a real private office, 66 to 148 square feet, with a real door and a real lock. Studios are priced by size and light, starting at $975 a month and topping out at around $1,800 for the largest windowed corner.
No open floor. No hot desks. No day passes onto the studio floor. A shared meeting room is available to the public by the hour or the day.
Who is here
Independent founders shipping product. Creatives building a body of work. Investors and advisors who take discreet meetings. Restaurateurs, hoteliers, and operators who need an office away from the floor. Technologists working heads-down on something that does not yet exist.
What it costs, compared to the alternatives
A kitchen table, no door closing, no neighbors.
An hour of good light, no privacy, no calls.
A seat, a lounge, a shared kitchen, the sound of other people.
A room, usually without selectivity, in a generic building.
A private studio in a Heights building designed for this.
The table above is approximate. Prices in the shared-office category move. Ours do not. The point is not to argue that Junto House is cheaper. It is to clarify what you are paying for at each price point. A private studio in a building full of people doing serious work is a different product than a seat in an open room, and it costs what a different product costs.
Place and neighborhood
1516 N Durham Drive sits on the west side of the Heights, between I-10 and 15th Street. Hotel Daphne, Terry Black's, Swift Building, and Afuri Ramen are all within a short walk.
The Shepherd-Durham corridor has been in a long-term Houston Public Works rebuild. The finished stretches look beautiful: wider sidewalks, new trees, calmer traffic. N Durham is completed up to our block. Further south, work is still ongoing. We will tell every visitor how to approach the building.
Next step
If this sounds like the alternative you have been looking for, come see it. Any weekday between nine and five. Morgan or I will walk you through the rooms and answer every question honestly.
Write to hey@juntohouse.com.
