Show me your desks/office/study

the Mac gets swapped out for a less effective Lenovo for work.

Yeah, I’ve only recently had cause to dust off the Applied Thermodynamics book, Statics is handy as well but never had a need for Dynamics and shelf space is limited so it’s in the loft. Next living room shuffle might earn me more space.

Really want a copy of Crane TP-410 but will have to convince work to stump up as its £140 once you add postage. And more again when taxes get added.

@rockbus what are you hoping to achieve with a stand? I’d just sit it on the desk and be done with it, the space is gone regardless, means your monitor can sit a bit lower. Thankfully I don’t have that problem as we have approved webcams we can get sent out, would be a major bawache if I had to accommodate the laptop on my desk along with all the other crap.

@brokenbanjo if I panned to the left you would see a very similar story!

My attic workroom. Me wall and stolen 2014 Tour de France road closed sign. 

Dining room table repurposed since Covid…

Pair of 27″ Studio Displays which work with my work laptop or personal MBP.

Home Office by Ben Freeman[/url], on Flickr

I have a helper today.

She’s after the ice in my cola. I’ve moved the damn glass like eleventy times and she keeps following it around.

I have a tiny desk in the corner of an overcrowded bedroom that is covered in children’s toys most days. Some of you appear to live in an IKEA showroom!

@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.

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 believe that is w00dster’s duck pond outside his window

Didn’t realise we had an MP among us!

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…

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.

@cougar2 needs pics!

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!

@cougar2 needs pics!

I posted on the previous page. The bookshelves aren’t particularly exciting.

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….

Small but bijou…

All I need for music making.

Barring the guitars, amps and pedalboards behind me.My mouse mat that must have been 20 years old dies last week hence the copy of Private Eye on stand-in duties. Must buy a new one today.

Mac mini with logic + kemper + focusrite = full studio in a 1m Sq footprint

Absolutely bonkers if you think what equipment and how much space you would have needed not that long ago…

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.

Thanks miraculous Turin-shroud like qualities of his upholstered hobby stool I’m now far better acquainted with DT78’s undercarriage than I want to be.

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.