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This is my 5th desk / office project. As you get older, you begin to appreciate what is most important to you.
First versions were in college, not going to cover those here.
V.4 was the conversion of a room in my house to an office. The was great for me, before I got married of course. My wife loved it, but we of course changed courses with the kiddos! I always meant to do a worklog- just never found the time. Maybe I'll sprinkle in that project in here a bit.
I demo'd the whole room (1925 house- nasty things present..), wired the whole house (IT and electrical for a whole home BBU) and did nearly all of the woodwork myself.
We both like books, so this office was tight on space and heavy on books (top shelves are 3 deep, bottom are 2 deep):
I just barely messed up on the desk width. When I built it, the 30" Dell screens where extremely expensive- so I planned on 3 x 27" screens. Fast forward 5 years, and I have 3 x 30" Dells..
So between where the plugs are, where the wall mounts landed and how the viewing angles work out- I had to overlap the 3rd screen in a non-advantageous manner. Oh well- lesson learned.
That took a little under a year to build. It's solid oak trim and oak ply. Top to bottom- ceiling included.
If anyone is looking for vendors please reply; a couple companies really stood out- I bought the frames for the glass doors online and the glass separate- both arrived in good shape and worked perfect.
So we moved a week or so ago- and my biggest problem with the old house is I built what I thought I needed- and it was off a little bit along the way in a lot of different places. And the way I built it- it was set in stone.
So this time, I am building a mockup to use for a couple months to help fine-tune the final product. And it is going to be less permanent and more modular.
It's going to be really big- that's going to be the best part about it. It will be between 12' and 14' long.
I'm really liking where this is going.
Stay tuned!
First versions were in college, not going to cover those here.
V.4 was the conversion of a room in my house to an office. The was great for me, before I got married of course. My wife loved it, but we of course changed courses with the kiddos! I always meant to do a worklog- just never found the time. Maybe I'll sprinkle in that project in here a bit.
I demo'd the whole room (1925 house- nasty things present..), wired the whole house (IT and electrical for a whole home BBU) and did nearly all of the woodwork myself.
We both like books, so this office was tight on space and heavy on books (top shelves are 3 deep, bottom are 2 deep):
I just barely messed up on the desk width. When I built it, the 30" Dell screens where extremely expensive- so I planned on 3 x 27" screens. Fast forward 5 years, and I have 3 x 30" Dells..
So between where the plugs are, where the wall mounts landed and how the viewing angles work out- I had to overlap the 3rd screen in a non-advantageous manner. Oh well- lesson learned.
That took a little under a year to build. It's solid oak trim and oak ply. Top to bottom- ceiling included.
If anyone is looking for vendors please reply; a couple companies really stood out- I bought the frames for the glass doors online and the glass separate- both arrived in good shape and worked perfect.
So we moved a week or so ago- and my biggest problem with the old house is I built what I thought I needed- and it was off a little bit along the way in a lot of different places. And the way I built it- it was set in stone.
So this time, I am building a mockup to use for a couple months to help fine-tune the final product. And it is going to be less permanent and more modular.
It's going to be really big- that's going to be the best part about it. It will be between 12' and 14' long.
I'm really liking where this is going.
Stay tuned!
