Show me your desks/office/study

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.

I currently have three different types of chair in my office for sitting, plus a standing mat. They get used based on how I’m feeling, though generally I use the normal one (humanscale something) or just stand

I then have a totally spare office chair which is used for gaming in the corner of the office where there is also a sim racing set up, which you can also sit on. All used with my son generally

Thought about a sofa or something like that but in reality I’d never use it. I put a big sleep mat and some blankets on the fl0or as sometimes my daughters are in the office too and they’ll usually lie on that to game or watch something on the TV

I’m very lucky to have a decent size office that is a proper man cave

Damn you all you made me tidy up my desk. It’s the only untidy part of my house. Still don’t know how to upload photos to STW so you’ll have to imagine it.

@ta11pau1 you monster.