New Office and Desk
My DH and I have been slowly in the process of converting our spare bedroom (which had housed most of our "stuff" when we were living away) into a new office. I don't like to call it my office, because it's going to be our office. I am going to work there during the day. DH will work there in the evenings. It will be set up so he can have meetings there, if he likes, and do lecture prep, etc. It's out of the main part of the house, so he will be able to focus when he's working there, unlike the current setup where somebody can interrupt him whenever, or where the TV blaring away is a distraction.
The main advantage for me is that it will be a place I go to work. One of the main challenges of working at home is separating the two. It's not so much that I work when I'm not supposed to, but that I don't work when I am. If I have an office, that is my workplace, then that is what I'll do during working hours when I'm in the office. Then, when working hours are over, I'll leave and shut the door.
When DH is home in the evening, and needs to work, it will be his office.
DH made the desk. It's really more of a work table, but it's humongous. He made it out of a door, and table legs we bought from Table Legs Online (no kidding). He trimmed it with red oak, and stained it cherry, and varnished it with four coats of a waterproof varnish made from tung oil. I just like typing that; I really have no idea what tung oil is.
Here is the finished product:
I'm going to take down the Sam's Club 4x2 white work table tomorrow, and we're going to set up the desk so I will be working at it on Monday. I will need to do some serious decorating to make our office worthy of my beautiful desk.
The main advantage for me is that it will be a place I go to work. One of the main challenges of working at home is separating the two. It's not so much that I work when I'm not supposed to, but that I don't work when I am. If I have an office, that is my workplace, then that is what I'll do during working hours when I'm in the office. Then, when working hours are over, I'll leave and shut the door.
When DH is home in the evening, and needs to work, it will be his office.
DH made the desk. It's really more of a work table, but it's humongous. He made it out of a door, and table legs we bought from Table Legs Online (no kidding). He trimmed it with red oak, and stained it cherry, and varnished it with four coats of a waterproof varnish made from tung oil. I just like typing that; I really have no idea what tung oil is.
Here is the finished product:
I'm going to take down the Sam's Club 4x2 white work table tomorrow, and we're going to set up the desk so I will be working at it on Monday. I will need to do some serious decorating to make our office worthy of my beautiful desk.
2 Comments:
Very nice work.
Seems like the only place I get anything done is the library where there is no access to my computer or housework.
At Oregon State they have weekly surplus sales to the public, one can find some really good deal on whole assortment of things including office stuff for cheap. I was thinking that where you DH worked they may have such a thing. I have gotten a few good deals that way. The desk looks nice by the way and looks like a big work area. My DW would want to turn it into a craft table.
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