As I have mentioned here and on Youtube, my partner and I bought a house in Scotland two years ago and I have been trying to relocate but I had been unable to find work.
Well I have now completed the move and work form home 90% of the time.
I have always done a little work from home but up until now, we had always rented so I was unable to setup a dedicated home office.
Working in a room for 12+ hours a day, I wanted a functional but comfortable space and I think I have succeeded.
The small spare room in the house was an idea space but as you can see from the ‘before’ pictures the room was far from functional or comfortable.
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I had taken an old desk up with me but once I had set everything up it was not big enough. I did a lot of searching and eventually found an end of line desk as pictured above and below. A 70x140cm it was both deep and wide enough for my needs and has a metal frame with solid wood and veneer sections.
Even once I had swapped out the desk, I was still struggling for space with the bed still in the room, cables, paperwork and other bits all over the place.
Creating the space I wanted…..
The bed was gifted to a family member, it was all but new and we didn’t want to simply bin it.
I have always liked grey colour schemes and settled on two colours from Wickes and I set about taking the dated boarder freeze off the wall and smoothing out the walls and completed the cutting in and mist coat.
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Two days later and the painting was complete and I set about setting out the layout.
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Once I was happy with the desk location I built up a bookcase and TV unit I had ordered from Ikea and set everything up.
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So.. that’s my office, something a little different from normal but I’ve very pleased with how its all come together.
My last task will be to install additional sockets into the wall/ring to get rid of the extension leads in use and tidy up the network cabling I have installed giving my future proof 10 gigabyte cabling. Due to the cost of 10GB switches at the minute, I am using a Netgear 1 gigabyte switch.
I chose to hardwire networking as we have Virgin and although the connection averaged 350/35mbps, the wireless is shocking and IMO unusable for anything more than a bit of web browsing.
I have Virgin Hub 3.0, but I never used it’s Wifi. I had a Linksys before, but when moving to current house which is made of brick with thick walls, even the Linksys didn’t work. I didn’t want to run cables throughout the house, so I got Amplifi HD mesh router which gives me a great coverage throughout the house with 1 router and 2 meshpoints.
Thanks Joe, I may take a look but I have the cable and run most of it now. I just need to add the junction box’s and then hide the cables away as I hate seeing cables 🙂 ATB, Dave
Very cool. I need sort my office out and love the setup you have created here!!
Great pallet and love the Star War theme
Hah thanks James, I have added more LED’s to create more of a Sith feel 😉
Dope! man found you off YT and was thinking what do you do to get so much hill time
Hah thanks Steve, thanks for subbing on Youtube, I just got your notification. ATB, Dave
Hah hah don’t know about Dope but I like it 🙂 Thanks