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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/
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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.
@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.
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 😉
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
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..
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.
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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..