Someday operating systems and applications will be written with enough care that you might trust your home to them. Someday pigs will fly too. All I need is to have to reinstall the drivers for my refrigerator or edit the registry to clean up some junk another application left in my washing machine. Concurrent Controls' Applica U2 makes a two-station PC 'network,' running off one CPU and box, a breeze. They also sell a 'workgroup' product that can serve several.
Monitors are cheap, keyboards are cheap.
That's a home network I could live with.