^^ I can’t win as I only have one screen…
If you consider being a tragic nerd winning then you are correct 😛
@LAP13 if you can post a link to the pic hopefully someone can embed it
Some lovely spaces, being plonked on the kitchen table myself I’m green with envy!
RM.
I think so... there’s an iPad on an arm next to it for the endless Zoom calls and then she works on a mixture of the monitor and laptop. Cannot get her to use a proper keyboard and mouse.
Office from the outside
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Do you have many leather bound books?
Do you have many leather bound books?
No
Three screens today - Samsung 32" QLED, MS Surface Pro 7, Dell XPS 17
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@grum ta for suggestion.
Here you are then;
The old place
https://photos.app.goo.gl/66UQvwUubwTbkRY66
The start and original setup now (the shelves will go and be replaced with the sofa bed)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Tg8CfvtBY4v89PXD8
How the desk currently looks
https://photos.app.goo.gl/X6AbnH3ahEfgrxM98
Let's see....
Edit: yay!
Office from the outside
That rug really ties the room together
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This is where I've been sat for the last 12 months, pretty much to the day:
Even when the office reopens (whenever that might be) I think I'll still be spending quite a bit of time here.
Lawman Towers
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It's a length of (600mm) worktop, supported sides and back by battens firmly fixed to the walls. Had I known, I'd have gone for 750 or possibly even 900mm worktop, as it's not really wide enough to get the laptop directly in front of me, and then have the keyboard and room to support arms/wrists comfortably. Which is why everything is pushed up to one end. I think the next modification is to splice an extra piece of the worktop into that space at the right-hand side and make the area larger, then put the kit at that end instead of under the window. Oh, and as things stand, that 2-drawer filing cabinet needs relocated elsewhere in the room, as it's a bit in the way of my legs.
All that said, it's better than traipsing nearly 40 miles down the M54/M6 to an office near B'ham International Station every day. When we get properly 'back', if I can organise to be 2 days in the office and 3 at home per week, that will suit me nicely.
Do you move your screens centrally each day? Otherwise aren’t you twisting your back?!
that does look like an ergonomic nightmare! Still, at least there's a window to look out of... a lot of these setups don't have one which personally I couldn't cope with!!Do you move your screens centrally each day? Otherwise aren’t you twisting your back?!
My window is behind me. I've spent quite a bit of time keeping tabs on the activities of my neighbours during my "non screen" time.
Do you move your screens centrally each day? Otherwise aren’t you twisting your back?!
For the most part I sit facing the screens, rather than 'square-on' to the desk, which is why the cabinet is rather in the way as things stand. All's fine, apart from the fact that my left arm is barely supported on the desk; it's really only the knuckle of my wrist that takes the weight of that arm. Not perfect, but better than being square-on and having both arms unsupported.
This is my cell, I mean work area. It's the corner of my front room, so got a folding desk from Wayfair. Need a bigger monitor really, but work paid for it, so probably won't get one.
When I was commuting my bike used to live in the same spot. 🙂
@DezB - do you have a link for that desk? Is it part of the bookcase behind?
Ahhh the worktop is quite shallow which is the problem, got ya! I've now started scoping out new wireless keyboards, had to google what a chiclet keyboard was!
This is my current position in the house - tucked in to a built in wardrobe space.
I was previously in the corner of the dining room which didn't work as there was too much background noise going on for calls especially when the children were all off school.
It was also taking over the room and always in the way.
Where it is now is quieter for calls and it's all designed to fold up so the wardrobe doors can be closed on it on an evening and weekend to create that separation from work and home. If this continues long term WFH for the future then I'd look to invest in a garden office of some description.
It's all a bit Heath Robinson and made from old wardrobe doors and fixings that were hanging around in the garage. Total cost was £3.50 for a bit of CLS for the battens to hold it up.
do you have a link for that desk? Is it part of the bookcase behind?
@pocpoc - https://www.wayfair.co.uk/furniture/pdp/17-stories-desk-rbnd2598.html
They'd sold out of pretty much all homeworking equipment last time I looked! Looks like they have stock again. Folds away nice n small. Wish the chair did!
The bookcase is actually a CD cabinet from IKEA, must be 20+ years old.
Ah, cheers. Thought it was a big panel that folded down from the shelving. Can image it would be a pain to relocate everything everytime you wanted to fold it up though.
I'm sticking with the "it ain't pretty but it works" approach for now until we get some confirmation going forward of what our new normal is going to be.
Mines moved around the house a few times over the last year. In 2 or 3 weeks time the camping table will no longer be needed and we'll have a spare bedroom and a permanent place to WFH.
And we'll have a carpet in the new loft conversion bedroom (pictured), kids will have bedrooms without holes in them and dust levels will be significantly less.
Kitchen and main bathroom will take longer though....
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Interesting artwork there!
Interesting artwork there!
From the fair hand of our binners, if I'm not mistaken
From the fair hand of our binners, if I’m not mistaken
Aye, spot on.
OK, so not my house but I've been spending so much time in one of these recently it pretty much feels like home. https://photos.app.goo.gl/7P8uMqVuHmj8JvUcA
Been using the Dining room table for the last year....
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OK, so not my house but I’ve been spending so much time in one of these recently it pretty much feels like home.
That's a very hipster repurposed office
OK, so not my house
What's the WFH option? LOlZ
What’s the WFH option? LOlZ
Yeah I thought my dining room table was annoying, can you still feel your bum by lunch time?
@ashat where did you get the print from on your wall please? 🙂
@footflaps my back twinged in sympathy!
Doesn't bother me at all, spend over 8 hours a day on the bench.
can you still feel your bum by lunch time?
Yep, big glutes from lots of deadlifting - my arse is hard as nails 😉
I did a stint on the breakfast bar in the kitchen at the start of lockdown when no one was really doing any work, then things began getting busier so I moved into the games room and had a nice few months in there on a comfy sofa with coffee table as the desk until daughter no.1 decided she wanted that as her bedroom and I got kicked out.
At that point it was back into the kitchen but as lockdown was relaxed, visitors were allowed round and the baby was getting bigger and louder the breakfast bar was out of bounds so I was on the round dining table at the other end of the kitchen. Round is the worst possible shape for a desk.
As part of the kids game of musical bedrooms the box room is currently free until the wee baby needs her own room so I have a desk in there, laptop, tablet showing the cricket or golf (anything with some green and sun) and it's not a great set up but is good enough providing no one sets up a call for the 3 to 4pm slot when the dog goes apoplectic if anyone gets in from school to either our house or next door.
I've spent the weekends for the last 14 months renovating the garden and the end game of that project is in sight and will be decking the bottom area and then I'm squeezing a 3mx3m dunster shed office into the corner and I cant wait, its ordered and should be here within a month. Will be good to have a sofa, coffee table, fold up or fold down desk, a proper tv, and quiet, beautiful uninterrupted quiet to work with
After clicking through this thread I've realised how particular I am about my desk!
Not many setups here I like for poor DSE/ergonomic reasons...temporary can be excused but permanent should not really have the following:
Mismatched monitor sizes
Laptop open with external monitors (change power settings so lid can be closed)
Monitors set way too high (eyes should be roughly level with top of screen)
Shallow desks or desks with keyboard drawers that don't have enough clear desk to rest your forearms.
My preferred layout is two identical monitors, one directly in front of you for primary use, and the other to the left for secondary use (emails/referring to other docs) and this leaves a bit of space to the right for mouse, headset, coffee etc. Monitors set fairly low and definitely not propped up on books etc, my displays have bulky bases so I tend to pull the desk out from the wall a few inches so I can push the monitors over the back edge slightly.
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My bosses office desk after being sabotaged before lockdown #1 (for giggles, too cluttered for me!)
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Our display screen awareness training says otherwise, screen centre line should be at eye level otherwise you're looking down all day.
I've just had a little Google and the advice seems to vary from top of screen 10cm below eye level (seems a bit extreme) to 10cm above eye level, to eyes at midpoint between the top and centre, but the general idea is that you would look down slightly to view the centre of the screen. Also saw something about max angle down to view bottom of screen would be 60 degrees, I suppose that may also be a consideration with large screens.
There are a few at work who have their monitors at max height plus an old nineties/naughties monitor shelf that would have been for a 15 inch CRT back in the day, thinking about it, I wonder if this is because they are wearing bifocals/varifocals so they can view the screen through the lower half of their glasses?
My bosses office desk after being sabotaged before lockdown #1 (for giggles, too cluttered for me!)
Dam, where the hell do you work? if that happened at my place it would be a serious HR call. I don't even think that would have gone down well in my agency days.
As for my at home set up, no photo its just the kitchen table but looks out to the garden so its not too bad. I can't wait to go back to a office. I really like the home / work mental and physical separation.
Figured I should share one of my own current setups! Yes the celebrations tub is devoid of chocolates, it only has spare bike parts in it!
