Craving Creative Space

I have a really great project that I am trying to launch... really great.  So great that I can't wait to get it all out on paper. The only problem that I am currently experiencing is finding a space that inspires me and gets my great ideas that are catalogued in my mind out and flourishing on paper.

I was trying to get my delicious project out today @ home and decided that it was not working.  I just can't seem to get very creative in the small laptop niche that the designer of this townhouse designated as "work space". It is right next to the kitchen cooking space, and that is just not right as far as I am concerned.

I decided to hit up the local coffee house on the North Shore that I like to go to when I want to gawk at celebs or overhear producers talk about their latest projects. So, espresso in hand, laptop juxtaposed on the table, I prepared to let loose.  I figured that I was breathing the very same air as the creative types, so I was in good company.  Let the creativeness flow!  

Not today.  Today I was subject to the back and forth of two very loud 50 something lulu lemon clad "Housewives of North Vancouver". They were dishing the dirt on their absentee friend who was a no-show, talking about their latest shopping conquests, discussing the deals at Costco and generally being super annoying.   So I let out a huge sigh,  collected my stuff and moved to a booth table by the window.

No success here either.  Not 5 minutes into my writing I was joined by a realtor who's cell kept buzzing on the table and he was taking calls and cutting deals in between rapid sips of espresso.  No bueno.

Not that any of this wasn't interesting, it just was not productive.  

I gave up and packed up and headed home.  By then all desire and creativity had literally "left the building" and now I am wondering where I need to go to get this project out of me and flowing.

I am probably giving up too easily.  One location down.  I have only two - well three actually- pre-qualifications for the space I must inhabit to work in.
1.  It must be modern / stylish.  
2. There must be ample espresso available at all times.  And mineral water.
3.  It must be quiet and smell nice.

Ok, perhaps that is 5, but am I asking too much?

I am ending this with a rather large sigh.  Or if you prefer, Les Beaucoup Sighs.