This organized and masculine residence workplace has tons of useful space for storing, a flexible sitting to standing desk, and a comfy nook to sit down and calm down. The proper mixture of kind and performance actually helps to maximise productiveness.
It’s completed!!! For the previous few weeks we’ve been speaking about Donnie’s organized but oh-so-masculine residence workplace, and I’m delighted to say that it’s completed! (And he’s much more delighted as a result of he loves it SO a lot!)
This room makeover was really Donnie’s “child.” He would ask my opinion on issues right here and there, however for essentially the most half, he picked every part himself as a result of I needed it to be the right area for him!
As a bit of reminder, here’s what his workplace seemed like earlier than we began:
He wanted to retailer a bunch of stuff in a not-so-huge area, however clearly the hodge podge of furnishings we had thrown collectively simply was not working. It doesn’t appear to be this anymore, although! You’ll be able to take the video tour or scroll via the pictures beneath.
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Donnie’s workplace is correct off the lounge, so it’s in a reasonably central location in the home. It faces the again of our lot, so he has a terrific view and many home windows for gentle. It’s not an enormous area, however we knew that with the appropriate methods in place, we might undoubtedly make it work for him.
A Tidy Studying Nook
Proper while you stroll within the door of Donnie’s workplace, you’ll see his seating space. He had needed a POANG chair for years however by no means had room for one in our outdated home, so he acquired his want with this workplace!
Final week we shared a video about how we put in a wall of Elfa shelving from The Container Retailer on the opposite aspect of the room, however we additionally put a smaller Elfa setup over on this nook. Donnie cherished the concept of utilizing their utility board with just a few little cabinets and cups to carry issues like his keys, pockets, headphones, and different gadgets he makes use of usually.
We additionally connected a bigger shelf to this unit to behave as his aspect desk. He likes having issues up off the bottom so there’s not quite a lot of litter on the ground, so this was the right resolution.
We put another little shelf on the high of the unit to floor it a bit and added some ornamental books and a pretend plant, and his cozy workplace nook was full!
Craftsman Model Trim Work
A smaller element that I believe made an enormous distinction on this area was the addition of chunky craftsman model window trim. All the home windows in our home simply got here with a small sill and no different trim, so Donnie has slowly however certainly been upgrading each, and I believe it provides a lot character!
(The bamboo shades on all the home windows are these ones within the Bali Abaca shade.) Donnie added matching trim across the door as properly.
A Sitting / Standing Desk
One other problem we needed to deal with in Donnie’s workplace was his desk scenario. He had been utilizing a standing desk that we in-built our final home, which he preferred, however since he has been doing quite a lot of video enhancing on the desktop laptop, he needed to have the choice to sit down as properly.
He discovered this motorized desk from Absolutely (the Jarvis mannequin) that enables him to regulate the peak of the desk to sitting or standing as wanted. It has presets that he has programmed to his very best sitting and standing heights or he can transfer it manually to any top he needs.
That white field underneath the desk is an air air purifier.
The up and down movement of the desk is so easy that he doesn’t have to fret about gadgets falling over or the pc elements being broken. It actually was the right resolution for this area.
Useful Storage with Elfa Shelving
The largest change to Donnie’s workplace area was the addition of a wall of cabinets and drawers on the again wall! We confirmed it empty final week, however right here it’s all crammed up and arranged:
We went with Elfa’s sand coloured cabinets and platinum rails and brackets to present Donnie the masculine look he was going for. The mixture of cabinets and drawers holds all of his gadgets completely, so he can retailer every part he wants with out it wanting cluttered.
The containers on the underside cabinets are literally device containers, however Donnie makes use of them to retailer our video tools as a result of they’ve nice dividers and permit him to maintain every part neatly organized.
Mesh Drawers within the Elfa System
The mesh drawers maintain quite a lot of issues. One acts as Donnie’s “inbox” for paperwork. One other holds wires and cables. One has his workplace provides, and many others. He was ready to make use of dividers inside the drawers to maintain each tidy.
There are additionally clip on tags made particularly for these drawers, so Donnie used my label maker so as to add a label to every one so he might simply inform what was inside.
Organizing the Elfa Shelving
The higher cabinets maintain alllllllllll of Donnie’s books. He has really pared down his assortment fairly a bit, imagine it or not. However he reads on a regular basis, so it was necessary to him to have space for storing for all the books that he loves and needed to maintain bodily copies of.
Along with his e book assortment, Donnie additionally left area to deal with his video cameras and lenses so they’re at all times simple to seize and a few plastic bins to carry his magazines. There are even just a few empty bins, so he has room to develop if he must!
On the suggestion of the designer at The Container Retailer, Donnie used ventilated cabinets on the highest row to carry his bigger video tools like tripods, gentle stands, growth mics, and many others. He retains a bit of stool by his desk, which makes it simple to seize this tools when he wants it.
Elfa Hooks for Equipment
We have been capable of connect hooks from the Elfa system to the brackets holding the ventilated cabinets so Donnie might dangle issues like his backpack on one aspect, and his fly fishing rod on the opposite.
This wall of shelving is so extremely useful and permits Donnie to retailer a ton of stuff whereas nonetheless wanting neat and uncluttered, which was the purpose to start with!
Elfa vs. BOAXEL
I’ve gotten numerous questions on why we selected to make use of the Elfa system on this area reasonably than the same IKEA ALGOT system (now known as BOAXEL), which we’ve utilized in a bunch of the closets in each this home and our final home.
Whereas we love ALGOT and can most likely use it once more sooner or later, it solely is available in white, so Donnie preferred the extra masculine sand/platinum mixture from Elfa higher for his area.
There have been additionally just a few items that he needed to make use of that Elfa provided and ALGOT didn’t, in order that additionally performed into our resolution. We had by no means tried Elfa earlier than and had heard nice issues about it, so we needed to strive it out for ourselves and see how we preferred it.
A Masculine Dwelling Workplace: Earlier than and After
Donnie is totally loving his new workplace area, and is spending much more time in there than he was when his workplace was cluttered and messy! Having an area that’s good for him permits him to focus and be extra productive as properly, which is at all times a win.
The earlier than/after distinction is fairly unimaginable. Let’s have a look:
(I additionally satisfied him that he didn’t have to retailer his rowing machine in the course of his workplace. That helped too. 🙂 )
I’m so thrilled that Donnie lastly has his dream workplace! He has greater than earned it, and it’s so enjoyable for me to look at him having fun with his new area.
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