Post by lilypad1126 on Jan 3, 2022 17:32:51 GMT -5
My office is technically in a bedroom, but we don't have a bed in here. It is a corner room, so I have two good windows with lots of natural light. But I also use it as my storage room/closet, so all my other crap is in here. Some days it looks like a decent home office. Today is not one of those days - laundry scattered everywhere, drying rack with clothes on it, random christmas stuff I need to put away. But I have a nice wall behind me for all my zoom meetings, haha.
I work at the kitchen table in front of our fish tank. We cleared out the lower shelves of a bakers rack so I can put my second screen away at the end of the day, which is nice because it's massive and makes that space look very cluttered when it's out.
I also share half the table with catfood bins and assorted junk that can never seem to find a permanent home.
H has the front bedroom for his office and absolutely needs that dedicated space for what he does. We've been talking about redesigning it for a bit, but we don't really know what to do. And that's the only reason I'm in this thread 😅
We actually have that couch in our basement! I agree it is pretty comfortable to sleep on.
I should probably consider just getting rid of the bed. The reason we haven't is that my parents come pretty often for 1 night. Average of 2-3 times a month. So making and unmaking the bed seems like a bigger chore than having a less spacious office, given that we don't WFH full time. That's why a Murphy bed is appealing.... You just pull it down. At least that's what I tell myself, I've never actually had one.
But my house isn't going to sprout an extra bedroom.
I mean, I think a Murphy bed does sound appealing. I guess it’s just a matter of whether you want to spend the money.
I decided it wasn’t worth trying to make a bed fit into the space available to us. People can use the couch bed or we’ll put one of our kids on a crib mattress and let guests use their rooms. It also would have been an issue to have someone sleeping in my office. But I work from home consistently and need access to that space.
My mom is here frequently, but not like your parents. 2-3 nights every couple of months.
We have a Murphy bed. We got it at Costco. I think it was around $1000. It’s awesome. Looks so clean to have the wall of cabinets and is so easy to pop it out for a guest.
Post by mysteriouswife on Jan 4, 2022 11:11:47 GMT -5
It’s nice to see “normal” offices and not picture perfect magazine covers. This whole work from home has been a challenge. We do have dedicated offices by chance. We purchased our house with plans to become multi-generational housing. It didn’t work out. We decided in 2019 we would downsize soon. Then the pandemic hit. This is the only time we have been happy with Our purchase.
Anyway… I share my office with the kids school area and craft space. We used an old desk I was begging H to donate. Thank goodness he didn’t listen. It’s a cluttered hot mess. We are making the best of recycled furniture we had or got for free from family. Noting special or pretty
Spin-off: does anyone have a combined guest room/office? Is there a way to not have it be cramped? We have a ~12x12 bedroom that has a tall bookshelf, a queen bed with two tiny bedside tables, and a desk. It feels so cramped. I would love to have a Murphy bed but haven't ever heard of a reasonably priced one.
I do! No pics right now, because it's an absolute wreck. Before it was my office, it was also our "dumping ground" for random shit. We don't get guests very often.
The bed is a full size bed, and its pushed up into the corner. I pull it out against the wall if my parents come. If it's just FIL, it stays in the corner. (If MIL and FIL come, they get a hotel room as MIL "can't sleep in anything smaller than a king"). Only one nightstand, and no bookshelf. I work at an L shaped desk that I built to fit in the corner near the closet. The room has a bit of a nook that goes over the stairs, and that's where the spin bike goes. I still feel cramped sometimes, but mostly because I wish I had skipped the L part of the desk and had just built it deeper.
Not sure how it's going to go when we have people visit again, as I'm permanently remote now. I guess I'll either move to H's office/game room or the dining room table.
kaneen - what a beautiful room - where did you get your rug?
My home office is the smallest bedroom so it is a dedicated space. It's a hodgepodge of decor and often feels cluttered since I store packages in there until I can unpack them. I'd love to get a new rug to brighten the space.
kaneen - what a beautiful room - where did you get your rug?
My home office is the smallest bedroom so it is a dedicated space. It's a hodgepodge of decor and often feels cluttered since I store packages in there until I can unpack them. I'd love to get a new rug to brighten the space.
We actually have 2 office spaces - one is upstairs in our spare bedroom, which my H is in right now but I will try to get a pic of later. That's our "meeting workspace". There is a desk with a low profile, plus a bed, chair, and other normal bedroom stuff. We've had guests a couple of times and I think it's been fine? It's the space I worked in throughout the first year of the pandemic (once we moved in, at least).
Our other space is in our walkout basement. My H and I both WFH now so we set up a space together there. We literally set it up last week so there is a lot I want to do, decoration wise - I want to put art on the wall over my desk, move the off-center picture above H's desk (it was hung before we put a desk there and he has a whiteboard calendar ordered so we'll move it to hang that), get a new floor lamp to replace the cheap one our sellers left when we bought the place, and some nicer bookshelves. I also want to paint. I do think I like the layout though! We both generally have headphones on during the day and go into the "meeting workspace" for meetings, so we don't really bother each other and it's nice to be able to turn and talk throughout the day.
I was going to remove the blanket from the floor for the pic, but it's actually an important feature of the office - it's where our cat likes to nap so he's between us both!
The basement is also our workout room. There is another area that isn't pictured that is just a bunch of random storage stuff that doesn't have another place yet, but I am hoping to move all of that elsewhere soon. It annoys me to sit here and look at it all day!
I love that you have office space and a separate “meeting workspace” wildrice . It’s like you have a conference room in your house! 😎
Ha! We are totally going to have to refer to it as the conference room!
Here are our "conference room" pics - as I mentioned, this is our spare bedroom (we only have 2 bedrooms, but no kids so it's fine). I set up the wall with the windows to look nice behind Zoom meetings - the console table more or less aligns with the desk. Sorry 2 of the pics are similar, but I couldn't get the whole thing into 1 shot. SusanBAnthony I don't know if it's cramped but it seems like enough space to me? It would be cramped if it were our primary bedroom but for guests I don't think they need a ton of space anyway.
The pic is from the house we sold in April (from the MLS), but it's set up exactly the same in our new house down to the artwork placement and paint color. In the current house I have the one tall window, but not the little one to my back.
It is currently in our guest room, but most of the time I work on the dining room table unless I have a meeting. I want to get a real desk chair, but I haven’t found one I like yet.
Spin-off: does anyone have a combined guest room/office? Is there a way to not have it be cramped? We have a ~12x12 bedroom that has a tall bookshelf, a queen bed with two tiny bedside tables, and a desk. It feels so cramped. I would love to have a Murphy bed but haven't ever heard of a reasonably priced one.
If you work on your laptop and don’t have multiple monitors, you could eliminate the bookshelf and do a ladder desk like this (others have slightly bigger areas for the desk part).
Or get a parsons desk that doesn’t take up much space and do a daybed with a trundle instead of a full bed so it can be like a couch that takes up less room when people aren’t there?
Spin-off: does anyone have a combined guest room/office? Is there a way to not have it be cramped? We have a ~12x12 bedroom that has a tall bookshelf, a queen bed with two tiny bedside tables, and a desk. It feels so cramped. I would love to have a Murphy bed but haven't ever heard of a reasonably priced one.
Yes we do. We have the ikea day bed that pulls out into a double bed. It’s pushed together when we don’t have visitors. Then we have the ikea sit/stand desk and a small cabinet. Beside the bed, we have 1 bedside table. My mom is staying in there right now but I can get a picture later. The ikea hemnes bed though is really great and reasonably priced.
Post by lightbulbsun on Jan 5, 2022 8:21:12 GMT -5
Here is my office. We copied the Ikea desk from YHL. We haven't hung a lot of art yet because I want to switch the closed desk with a bookshelf from another room. I think the dimensions are 11x13. When we moved in there was no closet door and we haven't managed to get around to getting one yet, haha.
ETA: Kiwi likes to sit on a chair next to me when I'm working. She will whine until I pull the chair over.