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Ask HN: What does your home office look like?
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#2I don't have an office, even though I work from home.
I alternate between:
1. An amazing café on the beach - warm, sunny, coffee (and beer!) on tap 2. The garden - if it's the right time of year, Wifi is lacking so tend to stay more focussed 3. Barstool in Kitchen/Stood up working 4. Dining room table - white wall behind, good for video calls 5. Lounge 6. Trains
I'm fortunate enough to be able to work with just a laptop, no large screens/mice/speakers/headphones/paper etc needed, so I don't feel that I'm without stuff if I'm not at a desk.
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#3Like this: http://youtu.be/GAJSnJE8Fu4 :) full of junk and clutter. It is not a good example to follow
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#4I don't have an office, even though I work from home. I alternate between: 1. An amazing café on the beach - warm, sunny, coffee (and beer!) on tap 2. The garden - if it's the right time of year, Wifi is lacking so tend to stay more focussed 3. Barstool in Kitchen/Stood up working 4. Dining room table - white wall behind, good for video calls 5. Lounge 6. Trains I'm fortunate enough to be able to work with just a lap…
Curious what you do? I do web development & programming and feel that when using a laptop my productivity can nosedive unless I have a full size keyboard.
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#5A single Ikea desk, beside a window that has good blinds, on the 19th floor of a building with a view over North London.
Under the desk a UPS, NAS (18TB RAID6), the WiFi plus a single powerful workstation (16-core, 192GB RAM, SSD for main drive, 6TB RAID0 scratch disks).
On the desk some books, a bottle of single malt whisky, a playstation (dusty and not wired up) and a scanner. A single large monitor (high quality). A desk lamp with halogen bulb.
My home office is just a corner of a room, with all the tools I need nearby.
It is slightly messy, I tend to have mail opened on the desk, and small things around it.
It's comfortable, a place I enjoy being.
But it's also a work zone... my viewing of videos and entertainment is on a television purposefully not visible from the desk. Meaning I must leave the work environment to enjoy entertainment with others.
I'm not fortunate enough to be able to create a study room that could be an office. Space is limited, but the ideal would be a comfortable library space, lit well enough (but not enough to harm the books), and quiet.
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#6I don't have one really. I have a T400 thinkpad and work wherever I feel comfortable. I avoid a specific place to work as I find that terribly demotivating.
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#7Our house is part of an old 12th century church. The part of the house that runs into this church is my home office. We work here with 2 (sometimes 3) people.
The view is amazing, but I've crammed it with cheap functional desks and chairs and shelfes/tables. The walls are painted a nice purple, but the rest is all about "while we're not making a bunch of money, we can't have nice things".
Do mind that our equipment ( Computers, screens, (3D-)printers etc) is all up to date, no savings there, obviously.
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#8I don't have an office, even though I work from home. I alternate between: 1. An amazing café on the beach - warm, sunny, coffee (and beer!) on tap 2. The garden - if it's the right time of year, Wifi is lacking so tend to stay more focussed 3. Barstool in Kitchen/Stood up working 4. Dining room table - white wall behind, good for video calls 5. Lounge 6. Trains I'm fortunate enough to be able to work with just a lap…
Curious what you do? I do web development & programming and feel that when using a laptop my productivity can nosedive unless I have a full size keyboard.
Different strokes and all that but I have a reasonably big desktop setup (4 large monitors, multiple machines, etc.) but my main keyboard is an Apple Bluetooth one which feels no bigger than the one on my MacBook Pro.. :-)
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#9I work from home full time, and live across the road from the English Channel (St Leonards On Sea), in a Victorian Maisonette. My office is on the 3rd floor with bay windows overlooking the sea.
The office room itself is largish, with 1.5 sofas, and a small table for tea. I have two desks - one sitting and one standing. My sitting desk is for writing code only. My standing desk is for everything else (meetings, email, etc.) My code-desk faces the sea so I can look out at the blue for inspiration if I need to. Above my standing desk is a whiteboard for notes/todo/etc. I have a small closet with a printer and supplies. I have to shield my workhorse machine from the sun sometimes so it does get too hot in the summer. In the English winter (10 months out of the year), it makes for a nice natural cooling system :)
-- EDIT -- here is a very poor quality photo: https://twitter.com/binarymax/status/460012757317074944/phot...
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#10I am currently having a very simple one. But I admired this one https://www.flickr.com/photos/paladin27/3217388885/ a lot. Will soon make out something like it.