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Attempt No.2
Chair from IKEA, glass-topped desk from John Lewis
A quick shot of MrsBond's office... I think it's fair to say that more time was spent on choosing the soft furnishings than any other elements...
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I dont really have one beyond pretty much flat sized 😆 but some lovely personal spaces going on out there, and some very nice chairs too 🙂
@howarthp’s is v nice
I think it's just won 😯
^^ I can’t win as I only have one screen...
Husband made this in the old place
This is now, still lots of little bits to do, including a sofa bed, rug and odds and sods and tidying.
Bikes currently on the back wheels in his n her turbos. Good though, this time last year it was a dumping ground.
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^^ 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.
Mine
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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!
Little bump for this thread, I liked seeing the pics. Any changes?
I've spent about a year in my old house and nearly a year in my current house working mostly from home. New arrangement is much better but no pics yet
Only change to my previous post is new Dynaudio lyd 48 speakers and Dynaudio 18s sub.
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Well, I've moved since I posted mine. Office is now over twice the size. Same desk/monitors etc, got my big map on the wall but haven't yet filled it with pins...
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One side of the office room (complete with zwift set up which just needs the sofa moving back and the bike moving into place):
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And the other side, for play (55" Sony OLED, PS5):
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I've been working from home solidly (with a couple of days in the office for a few months) for nearly 2 years now. 😮
Wow some very nice home office!
Also a few plants make such a difference to the working environment:
Giant white bird of paradise
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Golden pothos (devils ivy)
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Cast Iron plant (Aspidistra)
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ZZ plant
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Nice space. What are the tiles on the wall? Looks like some form of sound absorption?
I think they're dust collectors
Q: does anyone use an air purifier in their home office?
We've got a new-ish house with low air flow due to high energy efficiency etc. We do get a lot of dust and condensation due to lack of airflow and I was thinking an air purifier would help with this.
Bloody hell, that speaker on the left of the telly is massive! Where'd you hide the other one?
Nice space. What are the tiles on the wall? Looks like some form of sound absorption?
yes, im interested too - what's the practical effect?
I really like your setup , Tallpaul, I'm a fan of a dual monitor set up but with a larger, wider main and then a junior monitor to the side.
I want to get a digital USB desktop clock too.
Nice
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This is my current set up. Drop ENTR keyboard is pretty sweet.
Im expecting to move houses in the next 6 months so i feel its only provisional. My monitors are balanced on a pair of James Ellroy books. I'm going to mount them on some slightly higher wooden crates that aren't as obtrusive as a full riser.
I also want to get a logitech MX mouse when I get sorted and a s****y desk mat
the amazon echo speakers are good enough for stereo for LBC radio all day
Nice space. What are the tiles on the wall? Looks like some form of sound absorption?
Yeah cheap acoustic foam panels from Amazon, they cut down a fair bit of the echo - the room has a wooden floor, big window, wooden blind - so it echoed a lot, especially in the corner my desk is. The plants help with that too.
Bloody hell, that speaker on the left of the telly is massive! Where’d you hide the other one?
Lol I wish! IKEA besta units.
There is a couple of IKEA Sonos bookshelf speakers hidden away in the room. And the lights/clock/TV/speakers are all Google home connected.
I really like your setup , Tallpaul, I’m a fan of a dual monitor set up but with a larger, wider main and then a junior monitor to the side.
Ultra wide monitors are just brilliant, I can split stuff into 2 'screens' and still have my 2nd monitor for other stuff (I tend to have the big monitor for work stuff and the 2nd for personal.
Mine, just now.
Only change to my previous post is new Dynaudio lyd 48 speakers and Dynaudio 18s sub.
Have got the same monitors and sub! Just been packing everything away for a house move right when I get everything plumbed in nicely, gah....
Have got the same monitors and sub! Just been packing everything away for a house move right when I get everything plumbed in nicely, gah….
Hah!, be patient, time will come when they are unpacked and set up again.
Originally wanted the Hedd type 20 mk2 and Hedd 08 sub as a mate loaned me the Hedds to try out in my room but they are £1.5k extra over the LYD setup, perfectly happy and content with my Dynaudios but if I was given a pair of Kii 3’s or Dutch & Dutch 8c’s it’d be a different matter.
Had a few upgrades after moving house.
Cheap desk off gumtree, decent thickness ply/construction as opposed to something MDF
Proper office chair pinched from work
Anglepoise liberated from an old employer
Macbook M1 - first Mac and I rather like it
Logitech MX Mouse (1st version which are cheap as they're on v3 or v4 or something now) - quite surprised how useful/nice it as as expected it to be a bit ****
SSL2 recording interface, Yamaha HS8 monitor speakers (another gumtree bargain), cheap monitor stands
And a wireless charging pad for my phone which is also pretty easy/handy.
@ashat where did you get the print from on your wall please? 🙂
@santacruzsi Didn’t see this before as my username was tagged wrongly, but it was from iamfy.co and called ‘Alpine Art Print’ by Longview.
No real changes for me (house plants and holiday photos on the wall) except my old 26” Cotic Soul Frame now sits on the cupboard behind my desk. Have looked at putting some sound deadening in behind my desk as at the moment whenever I do recordings I end up with the spare bed pillows and duvet stuffed around my set up.
Mine, just now.
4:3 monitors for that “vintage” touch? 😉
Changes from my post on page 1 a year ago include;
- 1x plant swapped for 2x guinea pigs
- Chair upgrade to Aeron
- Blind finally up
- Audio upgraded to 2x OG Homepods
- Stack of unread Singletrack mags a bit taller
- A couple more man-baby toys on the shelf (Lego in this case)
A tad cluttered but it's served me well since March 18th 2020!
4:3 monitors for that “vintage” touch? 😉
Can't beat the classics.
In truth, I quite like the desktop monitor the way it is. It can be spun 90' into portrait mode (so I can pretend I'm running a SparcStation) and it gives me access to the space behind. I've considered replacing it but that would involve spending actual money and most of that kit is Wombled.
The other monitor far left is well suited for what's sat under it...
@timmys is that a bed for a quick relax. 😀
The room is still in theory a spare bedroom which is why it is there. I'm actually surprised how little of my time I spend on it to be honest, it's only been a few minutes here and there over the course of two years.
Right on queue of posting this I of course got confirmation of my return to an actual office from early April. I've been allowed to remain WFH two days a week, which I guess I should be grateful for as it would have neve been approved pre-covid.
I’ve been allowed to remain WFH two days a week, which I guess I should be grateful for as it would have neve been approved pre-covid.
This is arse-backwards, for what it's worth.
If you can WFH and want to, your employer has to justify why you can't and "because we say so" isn't good enough.
Mine has gone backwards a bit due to being split between offices and home and also the need to use the summer house for things other than work so I made a small drop leaf desk
July 2020
EDIT: balls to it I never used to have problems with postimages, sorry no pictures