Show me your desks/office/study

In progress of moving to a bigger house which will have a separate room for an office/study. My wife is a permanent home worker and I’m 50:50. We have always made do with a small desk in the bedroom and me at the dining room table. But now we have a dedicated room and I need some desk/room inspiration

My desk is cluttered. It does not comply with our companies clear desk policy. Luckily they can’t see that on teams

Here’s mine, tiny ground floor room but it’s definitely my space.

I work from home 2, sometimes 3 days a week so wanted something comfy. Desk with computer is a rise/fall, got a nice Pioneer PL12-D turntable, Echo for Spotify, little heater etc.

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Since replaced with a black sit-stand desk of the same size and a small d-class amp instead of the Sonos amp on the right. I run two laptops to the monitor with PIP.  The keyboard and mouse control both laptops, but I now use separate as it is faster than toggling Bluetooth! The widescreen Samsung was a lockdown purchase and is fabulous. We now use the same monitors at work. My new laptop is also smaller so no docking station, just one USB-C from the monitor. Speakers are Rogers JR149’s. Think domestic LS3/5a monitors. I can’t abide headphones. Web cam is son’s Razr Kyo which works fine for Teams/Zoom. The picture is a photo of all but one humans alive in 1969 from the loneliest man in history. Chair was a secondhand Vitra from the now defunct office supplier we used to recommend on here. Lamp is a genuine Anglepoise that bought with a long service gift from work.

Changed round a little bit now and also full of crap, but my garden office

I got a 3m length of oak worktop and had a couple of legs made up for it.

Like the garden office…but you need to resite those speakers!

Build/design your own. I couldn’t find anything I liked or was suitable so ordered a 2000mm x 960mm walnut worktop from Worktop Express and used their bespoke sizing options to cut a 20000mm x 300mm length from it to use as a monitor shelf on the desk, I got them to chamfer the edge as well. A couple of steel legs on Amazon for £60 ish and I had exactly what I wanted for under £400,

https://www.worktop-express.co.uk/solid-wood-bespoke-cutting-service/

4 years later it’s still as solid,

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I confess to not understanding the speaker thing that seems to be common above.  I now use headphones almost all the time.

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I live alone and never owned a tv in my life as I’ve always had a speaker/hifi set up as my focal point.

Headphones are fine but have no sound staging, I use sennheiser hd490’s and have some well tuned iem’s/Hiby dap, but they can’t compete with my Monitors and twin dual subs in this room.

Like the garden office…but you need to resite those speakers!

They actually sounded great – but yeah they weren’t in an optimal position, but they have died now anyway

This is the view from my office. It’s why I don’t work from home very often.

Phil5556, love the wall art, did you do it yourself?

Don’t forget the stuff behind you to show off your personality and interesting hobbies in the background while on Teams calls!

@Fueled Nope not mine, I have zero artistic skills 🙁

It’s a guy I used to kind of know from a  forum, it was something he did for a while and made a whole stick man series.

Some nice setups on here. <Thumbs up.>

Somafunk’s bit of wood is particularly nice.

Ah, sha’d up! For once I’m being serious.lol Love walnut, beautiful.

My office is a machine for working in.

I confess to not understanding the speaker thing that seems to be common above

The BBC invented a speaker for near field monitoring in a small closed environment. It’s a lot more pleasant and natural sounding than headphones. And I like Radio 3 when working, streamed from the laptop. Those speakers are now very expensive (LS3/5a), but mine use the same drivers and crossover and cost about a third of the price as a domestic version. The stands make a huge difference too. It was obvious as soon as I used them to isolate the speakers.

once you’ve used proper monitors, you won’t go back to headphones.

The BBC invented a speaker for near field monitoring in a small closed environment. It’s a lot more pleasant and natural sounding than headphones. And I like Radio 3 when working, streamed from the laptop. Those speakers are now very expensive (LS3/5a),

We had a couple of pairs of them at work, Harbeth ones, came with an edit suite we inherited. I can’t recall for sure what happened to them but I think one of the previous owners took them home to use. I know we sold the Neumann mic but it would have been nice to have had them for my home setup.

What recommendations do we have for smaller speakers for above my desk. Currently it’s some small old Logitech or similar system with a wee sub and 2 wee speakers on bell cable and as we all know fancy snake oil speaker cable makes all the difference 😉

Everyone’s so bloomin’ neat and tidy, does no-one else have a work-desk that looks like a bombs hit it, like me? :-/

Those are just the PR photos 😉

What recommendations do we have for smaller speakers for above my desk. Currently it’s some small old Logitech or similar system with a wee sub and 2 wee speakers on bell cable and as we all know fancy snake oil speaker cable makes all the difference

As usual depends on what you want to spend and the size you want, or if you merely want something that is adequate for background listening or sound quality first.

I’ve ordered a pair of these Adam D3V dinky desktop speakers for a mates kid xmas @£289 as the measurements look really good for directivity and ease of use with good bass extension for the price.

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This is the view from my office. It’s why I don’t work from home very often.

Your lawn is a mess and there a hulking great ship in your pond

Everyone’s so bloomin’ neat and tidy, does no-one else have a work-desk that looks like a bombs hit it, like me? :-/

Me. I tidied up ahead of taking this photo.

I also prefer speakers (for music) rather than headphones.

When we first moved in I basically sorted out my office and the garage and then gave up. Finally getting round to some of the other rooms.

Lots of different lighting (controllable from my desk) and colour, to get me through the upcoming dark winter days. Was amazing being allowed to choose a room colour with no discussions!

Quite like having my desk in the middle of the room rather than having the wall so close.

Standing desk is great, find it really hard to have meetings where I’m sat down now.

Finally have a place to put router, NAS, media server, and storage for wires, adapters and other electronic doohickies.

Not shown: Zoom vanity wall with guitars and other things that I pretend are my hobbies.

What recommendations do we have for smaller speakers for above my desk

I run a set of the smallest monitor audio speakers (br1) from a couple of years back. I suspect the equivalent speaker from any of a few brands would also work well. I pair them with a small under desk bk subwoofer I had spare, as any 5 1/2″ driver is going to suffer when it comes to bass.

Watching the thread with interest as I’m moving from a bit of the spare room to a completely dedicated 2.5x3m room that’s a blank slate..

All my lighting (including above and below the desk) on my current setup is hue with a tap dial controller, so I have preset modes for working/webexing during either daylight or night, to mix the colour temp and direction of the whole setup

For tractionman ?

yay, thanks @sirromj that’s more like it! 🙂

In the spirit of @tractionman request. Bonus for spotting random shit. No that’s not what it’s for, wrong hand, I have a cold.

Not gonna feature in r/desktops that’s for sure.

Squirrelking – I have that statics book, alongside the dynamics book too!

Bonus for spotting random shit.

Applied Thermodynamics, I’m pretty sure I’ll still have my copy I bought way back in 1994 when I began my descent into 3 years of hell and headaches,  Every other uni course at the time seemed to have loads of free periods and days off but a 5 day week still didn’t have time to fit in all the shit electronic/mechanical engineering threw at us

Blimey…what are people doing for work to want 5 or 6 screens on the go at once?

what are people doing for work to want 5 or 6 screens on the go at once?

Presupposes all the monitors are used for work 😀

We share an office. This be my desk, I consider this tidy.

This is the shared space… I’m often moaned at because Mrs BB has lost something.

Anyone have any recommendations for a lap top stand to fit under my monitor? needs to go under monitor rather than to the side as we can’t use web cams other than on laptop.
Needs to be small and neat as not that big a desk..