Office!

[telophase]

Here's my new office setup.



It's kind of hard to get everything into one frame as my office is too small to back up and get a wide angle in.



In reality it looks MUCH MUCH darker than this - right now, the flash is illuminating the wall through the bookcases. When you're in the room, the overhead light casts shadows so that the wall through the case is, effectively, black, like thus:



I took this one last night before I cleaned up the recycling and trash piles that you can see evidence of in the bottom left corner. Also the orange and blue (reads as red and black in the photos) striped thing under the desk is a towel placed there for any cat who wishes to hide away.

I'm going to get a lighter rug to brighten up the floor - we've got a whitish shag in the media room and another of those will fit nicely, I think.

Here's the other side of the room. The bright thing in the upper left is a hat on a hook too close to the flash. :)



Aaaand starting from the right:



The shelves you can just barely see to the right are going into the master bedroom. The monitor is going AWAY as is the lamp. The hanging cords are temporary - now that I've go things arranged more-or-less according to how I want them, we'll be threading them behind the cases and behind the hutch of the desk so I don't have to see them.

The central part of the setup:



The overhead Billy case is now housing my collection of plushies I don't want the cats to eat. The square white block with labels are a way I just thought up to keep projects in my memory. I need to be reminded visually of things - one of the reasons I'm a clutterbug is that if I put something away where I can't see it, it's GONE and I forget. So I bought Styrofoam and sawed it into blocks (and may cover them with fabric soon as they shed little bits everywhere) and put labels on them corresponding to my current unfinished projects. If I've got notes/sketches related to the project, they're in the cubbyhole behind the block.

The long clip-on light is also only temporary - I'm going to get a smaller clip-on to use for task lighting. The red box on top of the hutch and the slim brushed-metal thing it's sitting on are a magnet board and magnetic containers that will be going onto the part of the wall you see behind the monitor.

And the final bit:



Not much I can say that isn't obvious. :) The blue thing on the chair isn't a throw, it's a towel designed to keep Nefer from puking on the chair as she likes to sleep there.

Comments

[estara.livejournal.com]

That looks remarkably stylish AND useful. Just don't stint on good lighting. My eye problems really made me aware of that bit. I'm wearing those computer glasses these days, the ones that filter out the blue light (even as they mess up the colours) and it has helped me be able to sit at the pc much longer, almost as if I never had had the eye problems.

Will you be able to use a magnet board behind that big a monitor? I would easily bump into the top of the monitor while trying to fiddle with magnets and what I pinned to that board.

Love your explanation for the styrofoam blocks - although why not buy those Ikea order boxes where you can put labels in front and leave them open at the top (or even closed so it doesn't get dusty) and put the stuff in there?

Do you draw at that long flat table?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's not a monitor, it's the entire computer! I've got an iMac now. It's not particularly deep, either - I can reach out and touch the wall while I'm sitting down in the chair. It'll probably not be used much - I'm mostly getting it to hide the green and add another touch of brushed-metal to the setup. :)

Re: Ikea order boxes - we're an hour and fifteen minutes by car away from Ikea so when I thought up the idea on Friday night, it didn't occur to me to check for another way to do it at Ikea when I went to get supplies on Saturday. Plus, this setup cost me about $8 total, and I don't have to pull something out of the cubby to put notes in it, which would lead to me not using them (I know myself - any sort of minor obstacle to doing something and it just doesn't get done).

I don't draw at the table, I mostly draw digitally these days when I'm not doodling on notepads in meetings at work. I sew at the table (when my machine is working, argh), and do other crafts there.

[estara.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool! I've used pcs only so far, so Apple products are all shiny to me ^^.

Good point about knowing your habits. What doesn't work for you is only a waste of time and money then.

Sewing and kanzashi making. So nifty.

I also would like to add that Toby did good work with the set-up it all looks very sturdy to me.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I started on a Mac lo these many decades ago, but switched to a PC in 2002 or thereabouts when I went to grad school and had no money, and it's cheaper to bling out a PC than a Mac if you need high-end graphics capability and software. When my computer started to go bad, I decided it was time to switch back now that I could.

And yep, Toby did good work. He got a cake out of the deal. :)