Hello All!
After many years of making do with the small bedroom as an office I am finally getting round to spending some money decorating it and setting it up for an office/Man cave. I am looking for tips and advice. My budget (All in) is around $1000-1500. I am trying to avoid "Shoulda done X or Y" kind of scenario.
A bit about me and the setup
I spent a LOT of time in here being an official WFH employee and having a second gig as a freelancer for other companies. It is south/south east facing so gets the sun every day so I cant do face out into the garden or anything. The room is about 18ft by 8ft.
Some thoughts I am having:
I am planning on making one wall (13 ft) my work desk because currently I run 2 * 32" 4K monitors for my work laptop and alongside those are my 2 * 24" Dell monitors. I thing the layout on these is sub optimal but I dont think I could ever get used to the "Look up to the second monitor" type of quad arm fits... but how do people with many monitors configure them?
There are also 2 sets of keyboard and mice (deliberately so not to risk contamination from one job to the other). Storage is also a big thing because I, like most geeks have a tonne of cables for every occasion, physical manuals etc?
Is there a colour scheme that works best for long hours and lots of night time work?
What do I need to consider/what tips could you give? One tip I think a lot of people will say is "You can never have a desk that is too wide!" but we will see.
Any advice appreciated.
After many years of making do with the small bedroom as an office I am finally getting round to spending some money decorating it and setting it up for an office/Man cave. I am looking for tips and advice. My budget (All in) is around $1000-1500. I am trying to avoid "Shoulda done X or Y" kind of scenario.
A bit about me and the setup
I spent a LOT of time in here being an official WFH employee and having a second gig as a freelancer for other companies. It is south/south east facing so gets the sun every day so I cant do face out into the garden or anything. The room is about 18ft by 8ft.
Some thoughts I am having: I am planning on making one wall (13 ft) my work desk because currently I run 2 * 32" 4K monitors for my work laptop and alongside those are my 2 * 24" Dell monitors. I thing the layout on these is sub optimal but I dont think I could ever get used to the "Look up to the second monitor" type of quad arm fits... but how do people with many monitors configure them?
There are also 2 sets of keyboard and mice (deliberately so not to risk contamination from one job to the other). Storage is also a big thing because I, like most geeks have a tonne of cables for every occasion, physical manuals etc?
Is there a colour scheme that works best for long hours and lots of night time work?
What do I need to consider/what tips could you give? One tip I think a lot of people will say is "You can never have a desk that is too wide!" but we will see.
Any advice appreciated.