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@prettygreenparrot wins, but I do need to know who gets interrogated in the chair opposite...
prettygreenparrot will forever be pictured thus in my head from now on.
but I do need to know who gets interrogated in the chair opposite…
Hopefully, after being given a tipple from a bottle hidden in the globe.
Quite a boring set up for me, but nice views. Repurposed dining table/kitchen island….
Moving in November and currently planning the new office layout….some good ideas in this thread.
but I do need to know who gets interrogated in the chair opposite…
Yeah, that's what I was wondering. Missed opportunity to have a nice, brass interrogation light pointed at them.
"Tell me about your mother?"
@prettygreenparrot wins, but I do need to know who gets interrogated in the chair opposite…
Is that not where the young intern sits when he needs them to "take something down"?
^^ "I couldn't possibly comment."
Don’t forget the stuff behind you to show off your personality and interesting hobbies in the background while on Teams calls!
Big wall mirror so they can all marvel at my desk set up.. not
Speakers on the wall behind. lots of storage in which to keep 'stuff' that's never going to be used again (hard drives. battery chargers, software discs, GoPro mounts). metal case with 'useful cables in' under the desk alongside box of laptop bags.
Printer behind the lower tambour door.
This but now with skirting & carpet.
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Used a similar setup in the old house. The 2 slot shelving is a easy to install & creates a flexible setupnas we can move / add / remove shelves as required.
Maintaining a semblance of professionalism by having all the toys behind the camera.
@prettygreenparrot - definitely looks like it was lifted from a 19th century gentlemen's drinking club 🙂
This is in the big shed - workshop and bikes other side of the wall. Mostly updated/repainted during Covid. Shed is 15+ years old but still in pretty good condition. MacBook is positioned for pics and books behind:) At least they are real books tho, not some of those I've seen that are just empty boxes with printed spines.
Just googled how much a Rivendell Lego set costs, wow!
Oh go on then. I share my main office space with my wife, so I normally have a proper desk for 3 days a week, the other 2 I'm at my hobby desk in the corner of the kids play room. They look very pedestrian compared to some of those on this thread. And speakers - are you guys deaf needing things that size so close?! Row of bookshelves behind the desk in the study, wife moves my lego and models out of sight.....
w00dster - are you on a cruise ship?
w00dster – are you on a cruise ship?
I believe that is w00dster's duck pond outside his window
I'm 100% remote and wish I had some of these offices! Mine currently looks like an explosion in a cable factory. I do have guitars on the wall behind me, though...
Finally got round to putting the shelf up that's been leant against the wall for three years
God yeah. It's been there so long there's stuff growing all over it!
I'm getting some serious desk envy looking through this thread! I miss having a space I can have a pc/desk setup with monitors etc. My current WFH desk is the dining room table with the random kids clutter pushed aside to fit my laptop and keyboard on! Short of moving house and having my own room I could do with finding a nice fold away/hide away desk setup if anyone knows of anything that doesn't look awful?
I have a 100+yo school (teachers?) desk (4’ x 2’) that i have a 23” monitor and a dock plus power pack (and usb c cable connecting my work 15.6” laptop) sat in the corner of my kitchen/dining area. It’s the best room in the house for the purpose as its got windows on 3 sides (although its a Pain in late afternoon low angled sunlight at times). I can see out the front from my seat so can stay ‘connected’ to the world (until the hyper focus kicks in) and spot the parcel delivery/Postie when they are here to deliver shit.
LHS has a mess of papers and shit piled on it…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sofaboytt/54113832079/
I’m getting some serious desk envy looking through this thread!
It was a prerequisite when I moved house. When I started working from home, I was on the dining table in the living room sitting on a catalogue special chair whilst my partner was watching vacuous shite on TV. It was horrendous. Here I ended up with a little surplus cash following the move which I earmarked for paint and Ikea. Two desk units, four large bookcases (not pictured), the obligatory Secret Labs chair, a cat tree and a few other bits which moved with us and it's a nice place to be. Well, I think so.
I figure, it's a bit like buying a bed. I spend a third of my life here, it's worth a bit of effort to get it some bit like. The chair especially has proven to be a godsend, I've had chronic shoulder pain since like the 1990s, it's totally cleared up.
The bit of spare cash I had after moving home went into a shed. Four years later I still haven't done half of what I intended to do under the stairs - clad the wall with ply, with conduits behind for computer cables. Replace the current desk (which I won on EBay for a tenner, and has served very well indeed, solid) with a DIY desk to span width of space. Being an old house, and not really having much DIY (internal to the home at least) experience, there's lots of awkward aspects to it which mean it's not straightforward, plus a tendency to overthink and over complicate! Such as having the wall mounted brackts for the monitors attached to the brickwork poking through the cladding so they're not too close to me. Want to try and get the ply done this winter then at least I can put shelves up to get some of the crap off my desk!
Mine's still a work in progress, still need to plumb in the radiator and put a proper floor in. Doubles up as a Zwift room. The beer fridge is in the corner I took the photo from.
Forgot the second desk/office - was daughter's dressing room/office. She's moved out, so it's now the wife's dressing room/home to her A3 photo printer for her artwork and general dumping ground....
Don't even need the Focusrite unless I'm micing something as the Kemper has 4 in/out USB.
Brilliant and easy. The Kemper is fully pimped out to Level3 so I can simply use all my old Kemper Rigs from the Stage.
No office, just the kitchen/dining table. All stuff gets put away in a sideboard when kids are back from school. Aiming for a proper set up one day. Clearly a massive speaker/amp combo is the starting point, then an abundance of toys. Or the desk in a bike shed option. Or the gentlemen's club opulence. Hmm.
as part of work we're having done, I'll soon have a 2.9x2.8m room that's a dedicated office. Thinking about layouts, one thing I ocassionally see is an armchair/small sofa away from the desk.
Question for those of you with that sort of thing - does the extra seating ever get used? Years ago I had a small sofa in a similar space and it just ended up with stuff piled on top of it..
I'd guess generally not.. Unless it's more like a man-cave situation for drinking and playing computer games!
I'd guess generally not.. Unless it's more like a man-cave situation for drinking and playing computer games with friends!
Could maybe do a sofa bed for occasional guests?
Good thread - I bought a sit/stand desk and a few bits recently to sort out the temporary office set up that I had when we moved, after temporary became 2 years later ... I have some spare 2-slot shelving and and will borrow the 3 vertical bracket layout of @Kamakazie's layout up there ^
One thing I need is a decent soundbar for low profile, lower volume good quality music streaming from the laptop, to replace the mini system on the window ledge in front of me - any suggestions? Ideally cabled rather than bluetooth. I was thinking a soundbar would sound better than 2 small speakers of similar height / overall volume.
Could maybe do a sofa bed for occasional guests?
thats what we used to have but we now (will) have a separate guest bedroom and car-camping SIMs for the kids rooms, so don't need the space other than in extreme situations
an armchair/small sofa away from the desk.
Question for those of you with that sort of thing – does the extra seating ever get used?
I have an armchair 'over there' next to a bookshelf, wanted somewhere to sit and read as well as work, a 'change of place'. Tend to read in the kitchen or living room though so it's going, replaced by a sofabed for spare bedroom use. I think I would use it more if the wfh room was a different layout, more open or had windows in 2 walls. I need to be by windows. @prettygreenparrot's room looks ideal for office and reading lounge combo use.
I was thinking a soundbar would sound better than 2 small speakers of similar height / overall volume.
Almost never, a set of decent PC speakers can be had second hand for buttons and they usually have a sub you can tuck under the desk.
That said, if you aren't after fantastic quality then the soundbar will be fine.
^ ok, thanks - I thought the idea of a 'bar' design was about volume:shape but will look for PC speakers, got a place for a sub also. I suppose a PC speaker gets a bigger cone into that shape.
Question for those of you with that sort of thing – does the extra seating ever get used? Years ago I had a small sofa in a similar space and it just ended up with stuff piled on top of it.
I got a nice Chesterfield 2 seater. I sat on it a couple of times then piled a load of crap on it
Been meaning to post this, apologies for the 'not a photographer' pictures.
Desk was made by my dad to my requirements as I wanted something suitable to house my personal desktop but also effectively work as a big docking station for my work laptop. The big central monitor works off both.
Designed with an open back so almost all the cabling can be routed and hidden away. Wireless phone charger built into the shelf of the laptop stand.
The 'work' and 'home' key boards store inside the desk furniture when not in use.
Right hand alcove is designed to take a Denon mini system and mine is wired up with 2 B&W Solid bookshelf speakers and a Q Acoustics Subwoofer
Mostly gig posters on the walls.
Chair is a Noble with a ventilated cover that looks like leather but doesn't cook me in summer.
Very much a "working" desk set up, apologies for the clutter!
3 screens (effectively 4 with the ultrawide) is a must, I work in IT so regularly have remote sessions to multiple servers, teams, DevOps/articles all on different screens.
