We’ve been in need of some office upgrades for a while. Since I’ve been home all the time, there just isn’t a good way for both of us to work with our previous set up. It worked for a while and then I couldn’t take my small space anymore.
See? Clean for the pic but not practical, especially after we bought my laptop which was often sitting where that book was in the picture. So I mentioned to Rob on Wednesday or Thursday last week that I was getting tired of having no desk space and how dark the office was. That opened the floodgates of discussion about what we wanted, what wasn’t working, what we envisioned. It turned out that we had a similar idea of what we wanted, a more professional space where we had room to have both computers available (we both work off laptops and desktops at the same time.. it’s crazy but it works).
Rob’s desk (shown here from last winter) took a beating this summer. His second monitor died and we finally got a proper window covering for the window. (We’d been using a sheet to cover it.. can you say ghetto?) But the space was dwindling for him and we needed more room for everything.
So, without further ado, the new office.
Rob’s desk and mine are the same.. frosted glass table topped desks from Ikea. This probably cleanest his desk will ever be.
My desk.. well, part of it anyway because it’s huge!
When Tucker died, we planted some basil and used his old water bowl. It’s thriving in the western exposure we get in here. He would’ve knocked it over about, oh, 17 times by now. We still miss him.
Diplomas courtesy of higher learning. The painting was a wedding gift from our friend Jen. We haven’t had a frame for it until now so it’s now joined the display in here.
The whole enchilada.
I’m not going to show the closet because, yanno, office supplies on a bookcase aren’t that exciting. We are exhausted. A drive to IKEA yesterday in Oakland followed by hauling out everything that was in here before, assembling everything, and then hauling the little stuff in took us until 11pm last night. We were up for church at 8am, got home at 2pm and Rob decided to go to Office Depot for the final touches. I know we are insane. But our office is clean, tidy and feels more pulled together than it ever has.
lovely!