I 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.<p>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 :)<p>-- EDIT -- here is a very poor quality photo: <a href="https://twitter.com/binarymax/status/460012757317074944/photo/1" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/binarymax/status/460012757317074944/phot...</a>
I use an Ikea Gallant desk. My main computer (home built Linux system running Windows via VirtualBox) sits underneath, and a large-screen Asus monitor is on top, as does my laptop. I try to keep the physical desktop devoid of non-essential stuff, but this is a losing battle. I also have a video projector directed at the wall in front of me.<p>My office is full of books, plants, my LEGO projects, and other miscellaneous toys and distractions. The walls are decorated with classic covers from Byte Magazine<p>I have one window with three bird feeders to my right. I can also look into my backyard (through another room).<p>Here are some pictures:<p><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5815303/jeff_home_office.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5815303/jeff_home_office...</a><p><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5815303/jeff_barr_home_office.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5815303/jeff_barr_home_o...</a>
A single Ikea desk, beside a window that has good blinds, on the 19th floor of a building with a view over North London.<p>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).<p>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.<p>My home office is just a corner of a room, with all the tools I need nearby.<p>It is slightly messy, I tend to have mail opened on the desk, and small things around it.<p>It's comfortable, a place I enjoy being.<p>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.<p>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.
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/YlTn5cD.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/YlTn5cD.jpg</a><p>That's my home office, I live on what used to be a working dock in the north of England but was filled in and used for housing so it has a nice feel, I love it because I'm 200ft from a massive river (great for thinking walks <a href="http://i.imgur.com/ibfcLn2.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/ibfcLn2.jpg</a>, not so great when a massive storm surge nearly topped it in Dec heh - <a href="http://i.imgur.com/P2DRT0h.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/P2DRT0h.jpg</a>).<p>I can't stand working in a mess, I have to tidy both offices before I can settle down to do any real work and I've found as I get older I need more quiet to work properly I don't seem to be able to tolerate distracts as well as I could, I'm lucky in that while I'm starting a business and money is tight the North East of England is very cheap to rent in so we still have a two bed with a spare bedroom for an office :).<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/yB0IN1e.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/yB0IN1e.jpg</a> is my work office (which feels like home sometimes!) rented in an old Victorian building the council run, high ceilings and lots of space and light which is nice.
My wife and I run what I would categorize as a micro-saas business and we both work at home. She works part time at a standup desk that I made from furniture parts, and she also uses a drafting style chair that I made from parts purchased on the internet. LOL @ her clocks, looks like one needs a battery. To her left is a small white board.<p>My desk is also somewhat home made and doubles as my hobby project studio for song writing and recording. Behind my chair (not visible in the pic.) are a 10" sub woofer and a larger white board. I have a tiny bike mirror over my right monitor to avoid a bad shock when someone stops by my desk while I'm deep in a project. The tiny red button on the left corner of my desk is to engage/disengage the sub woofer. Most days my dog sleeps on the rug by my chair and amazingly I have never rolled over him.<p>My desk: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/OfYjTgX.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/OfYjTgX.jpg</a>
Her desk: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/vI4GR7H.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/vI4GR7H.jpg</a>
Our 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.<p>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".<p>Do mind that our equipment ( Computers, screens, (3D-)printers etc) is all up to date, no savings there, obviously.
I work from home full time and live on a Pier in the Hudson River right across NYC. My home office has a large solid wood workbench and a Herman Miller Aeron chair. There’s an iPad mounted on the wall running Status Board app showing some vital stats.<p>All work is done on my 27” iMac, while watching the curious life of liveaboards in the marina outside and looking at the Manhattan skyline…<p><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/nhjki7bpcpfpemw/HomeOffice1.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/s/nhjki7bpcpfpemw/HomeOffice1.jpg</a><p><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/0u7lbw9d1t0n7ek/HomeOffice2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/s/0u7lbw9d1t0n7ek/HomeOffice2.jpg</a><p><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5uzavsek2dz80qf/HomeOffice3.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/s/5uzavsek2dz80qf/HomeOffice3.jpg</a><p>(Sorry for the poor pics, had to shoot against the sunlight coming in)
I don't have an office, even though I work from home.<p>I alternate between:<p>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<p>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.
Student here, so I guess my office is less mission-critical than others.<p>I took an old door, nailed an edge around it, and varnished it. Got two trusses from Ikea for pretty cheap (~$30 each), and two "night stands" that work really well as shelves.<p>I have an absurd amount of desk space and I find it great for working. My desk is messy, but I'll get a picture up in a sec.<p>Edit: Heres that photo
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Nothing special about my current home office (which consists of a desk in my bedroom), but back when I lived in Brooklyn, I had a makeshift standing desk with a nice view of Manhattan.<p><a href="http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2011/02/20/standing-desk-configuration-2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2011/02/20/standing-desk-conf...</a>
Please don't be offended, I'm a hacker/geek too but I've generally found designers to have much more aesthetically pleasing home offices.<p>Not that they write better code, they're just prettier :D<p><a href="https://news.layervault.com/stories/8613-ask-dn-your-workspace" rel="nofollow">https://news.layervault.com/stories/8613-ask-dn-your-workspa...</a>
We moved to the mountains in Central Arizona about 14 years ago and my wife helped setup my home office: large book cases, a huge teak desk, and an ergonomic chair. I have a view of the red rocks/mountains, which is nice.<p>So, I have a nice home office but I don't much use it because I prefer working in different places around our house and outside, weather and available shade permitting. I use my office mainly when I need to plug my laptop into a large monitor. Otherwise I like to use a light weight lap desk and roam. About once a month I will work out of a coffee shop.
Here's where the magic happens:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Justin_Mandzik/status/460080620329508864" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Justin_Mandzik/status/460080620329508864</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Justin_Mandzik/status/460082804827881472" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Justin_Mandzik/status/460082804827881472</a><p>Edit: I do a few days a week from home, with a fair amount of video conferencing. White board is critical to get me out of my chair to draw out what's in my head.
I just recently (i.e., last week) finally splurged and bought a motorised sit/stand desk. I've been wanting one for some time as I work from home full time and want to stand for part of the day.<p>Here is the new setup (in standing position): <a href="http://imgur.com/cgRoSUu" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/cgRoSUu</a><p>I just bought the frame and reused the desktop from my old desk. I was tired of using plastic boxes and phone books as monitor stands, and couldn't find good stands that had the height I wanted, so made my own using some wall-mount monitor/tv brackets: <a href="http://imgur.com/YwyRwVl" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/YwyRwVl</a><p>The window on the right looks out on the cat-run in the back yard (when the curtain isn't drawn) and that's a hermit crab tank on the left (which is currently unpopulated until I automate the humidity controls.)<p>Speakers and lots of kids photos are on a shelf that is currently behind the monitors, but can be seen when sitting. My back is to the door, so there is also a little rear-view mirror glued to that shelf to make it harder for the kids to sneak up on me. (Tying bells to collars worked okay with the cats, but not so well with the children for some reason which is strange as the cats are much more cunning.)
Here's part of my current home office: <a href="http://imgur.com/ERUHALo" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/ERUHALo</a><p>* Motorized adjustable standing desk from the Ikea (Linak legs; whole thing was under €600), in standing mode. Yes, fixed standing desks are not going to work, you need to be able to alternate between standing and sitting throughout the day.<p>* On the left, Synology DS213j, TP-Link TD-W8970 ADSL2+ Modem router and Meissner 750VA UPS to keep my internet connection going during Eskom (South African electricity supplier) power outages / load shedding (tested, works a treat! with laptops charged, I can continue accessing internet for a few hours of no power. Telkom exchanges have their own power supplies)<p>* Cheap laptop with IPS display (see <a href="http://wp.me/p1dVx9-6k" rel="nofollow">http://wp.me/p1dVx9-6k</a> ) connected to Samsung external LCD. You're seeing Emacs on the left with Zenburn theme, and Intellij IDEA 13 on the right with Darcula IDE + Solarized Dark editor themes, everything still on Ubuntu 12.04.<p>* My corner is indeed quite cluttered, but comfortable to work in. :)
I recently set up a new home office: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/mSTllTC.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/mSTllTC.jpg</a><p>it's nice to finally have a decent space to work in. Having a comfortable spot that I enjoy being in has definitely improved my productivity.<p>My goal is to eventually work from home.. maybe 2014 will be my year :)
I have a pretty horrible office room (1BR condo with the living room/kitchen combination turned into basically an office with a couple desks), but what I do like is my desk itself -- it's one of the IKEA glass-top galants, and I have 2 dual-monitor ergotron arms with 3 x 24" U2410 dell monitors and a laptop stand for a mac. I have a PC (win7 or ubuntu, dual boot) with lots of RAM, SSD, etc.) connected to all 3 monitors, but one of the monitors switches with the macbook pro 17" left on the desk, and another is used for any "guest" system I'm working on via vga, dp, or hdmi. I have 2 keyboards always on the desk and sometimes a third.<p>When I move, I might switch to retina displays on arms for my primary systems, but 32 is more tempting than 24. Standard-definition displays still work great as big consoles, too.
My wife and I share a room on the brightest corner of our house. It's mainly furnished with Ikea, which is cheap, functional and has a clean style that is well suited for an office environment. I have a workstation with a couple of 24" monitors mounted to the wall. I was concerned that the desk wouldn't be large enough, but having the monitors off the desk surface frees up more than enough space for me. My mechanical keyboard makes typing at my desk a bit more fun. And I can take my laptop over to a surprisingly comfortable chair in the corner of the room when I get tired of sitting at my desk.<p>We also have a puppy that likes hanging out in the room and is a great source of distraction.<p><a href="http://imgur.com/a/vj3mt" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/a/vj3mt</a>
I cycle between working in my basement "office", my living room with a convertible standing desk, and when the weather is permitting, out on the back yard semi-patio-thing.<p>Relevant pictures:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/jessegumm/status/460019341355143168" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/jessegumm/status/460019341355143168</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/jessegumm/status/460020285786578944" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/jessegumm/status/460020285786578944</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/jessegumm/status/460019950338727936" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/jessegumm/status/460019950338727936</a>
I'm lucky to work from home full time. My wife does a bunch of drug research when she get's home so it's nice to be in the same room. We are in the process of moving so here is a photograph from our listing: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/aziRyhv.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/aziRyhv.jpg</a><p>The desk was custom built for the office so not sure if we will take it with us. I love wood working and would love even more to create this myself someday, but my skills aren't there yet :)
The most notable not work related items in my office: a guitar, a Cromemco Z-2D computer, a writing desk that I inherited from my grandmother, an old square milk churn, a rusty leg vice that was my grandfathers and a Vroling wood-burning stove ( <a href="http://www.vroling.nl/afbeeldingen/vroling%20kachel.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.vroling.nl/afbeeldingen/vroling%20kachel.jpg</a> , but mine is nicer).<p>And then there are the boxes in the corner, because we only moved here 3 years ago. Oops.
When I was having some renovations done a while back, I had a desk built into a spare bedroom (that I was already using as a dedicated office). Basically, its' about 10' long and wraps around one of the corners. The corner is where my 2 monitors live as well as an articulated keyboard tray with a mechanical switch keyboard and mouse + trackpad. And an old Aeron chair (which HM replaced at no charge about 7 years into its warranty when a part broke!).<p>One of the nice things about this arrangement is that the corner is really deep. At one time this let me use a big CRT. Now it just lets me shove lots of USB drives and so forth out of the way. I have a few computers but I really only use my Mac Mini most of the time.<p>Most of the remaining wall area is file cabinets and bookcases. Truth be told a lot of the paper volume in the office is essentially "legacy" paper though I have cleared a fair bit of that over the years. If I were starting today, I'd probably make more of an effort to have as much digitized as possible. As it is, a lot of the older material just isn't worth the effort.<p>I used to do most of my computer work in my office. Truth be told these days, I often just work on my laptop in some other room. Not sure why I changed but I find I like moving around unless I'm doing some task that's a lot better on my desktop setup.
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/KyNniKN.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/KyNniKN.jpg</a><p>Mine is in one of the smaller rooms of my house that I work out of once in a while. I belive the table top is the Ikea Gerton (<a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50106773/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50106773/</a>) that I bought a few years ago. Such a simple desk and loads of room. Pretty heavy too.
I 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.
My living room consists of my desk, TV and a small sofa. The desk is positioned in the middle of the room, so I can see the TV. It's a terrible setup for entertaining guests but it's nirvana for working from home. I'd hate to be cramped up in a small office or next to my bed. Being able to watch TV while I work allows me to be able to work for 12+ hours with no problem. And I really like the extra space.
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<a href="https://whatimg.com/i/rdhPMY.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://whatimg.com/i/rdhPMY.jpg</a> - this picture gives a better overall view.<p>Gallant corner desks - I've updated, since, to an iMac and Thunderbolt Display. I want to go to a more simpler set up with a better quality desk. Galant desks are nice, but I'm really wanting something with more texture, sturdier.<p>Take the time and invest in cable management. It makes everything so much better. On the other side of my office, what works awesome is an Ikea Expedit turned on its side - <a href="http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/images/products/expedit-shelving-unit__0092710_PE229408_S4.JPG" rel="nofollow">http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/images/products/expedit-shelving-u...</a> - fits my two printers, Airport and a little rock fountain just perfectly. I've worked at home for coming up on seven years now.
Linux.com has articles on what the Linux kernel developers do:<p><a href="https://www.linux.com/news/special-feature/linux-developers" rel="nofollow">https://www.linux.com/news/special-feature/linux-developers</a>
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Spare bedroom my wife and I both use. We each bought two cheap IKEA desks (they look like Galants, but with T-Legs, very basic) -- one desk for our computers and monitors and such (sooo much space) and another for other sundry. I have a 4 color laser all-in-one and the guts of a MAME machine I'm working on on my second disk, my wife has mostly paperwork spread out. A pair of comfortable, relatively cheap ($200) chairs from Costco. That's about it, when it's organized better than it is right now, it's semi-minimal with tons of surface space to work off of. Right now I have too many old computers in there I need to dispose of or do something with and lots of other junk I need to organize. I keep my photography equipment in there as well and we're preparing for an overseas trip so all that junk is in there as well.<p>I try not to keep lots of books or anything in there. I have a separate library room for books and various curio (the actual home office designed for the home, but is just a hair too small for my current setup plus my wife's plus my books).
In the middle of a move (out of a rental into a place we are buying) so no pics but I work full time remote from the bitterroot mountains of Montana.<p>I use a costco wire shelving unit + a couple of boards as a standing desk with a monoprice 27" ips monitor and a macbook pro. I have one shelf set up to keep the monitor and macbook at eye height and another lower one with boards for keyboards and mouse plus a drafting chair for when I want to sit. Also there is one shelf on top and another a couple of inches bellow the keyboard shelf for stability and storage and the whole thing needs to be against a wall to work well.<p>It works pretty well but I find myself missing a sitting desk for days when i'm too exhausted (from climbing and skiing mountains) to stand all day. Not sure if I will purchase an adjustable or just set up two works stations once we've moved. Either an arm to move my main monitor or a second monoprice is cheaper then any adjustable desk i've seen.<p>Also a comfortable chair usually with a cat curled up in it, view of the mountains and a closet full of climbing and skiing gear.
A custom made desk by the window with an obscured Indian Ocean view (Mombasa). Three monitors on the desk. Under the desk a build server and what was my main computer stacked one over the other. I work from home, and all this is just at the corner of what is supposed to be a bedroom. Nice curtains to have just enough light in the room and a nasty array of various cables all over the place.
I live in an apartment, first floor. I Work from home full time in Bolivia. I accommodate a room with two desks, most of the time I use both and in occasions I share one.<p>I don't like to have anything else in the room, when I want to rest I just get out of my desk, for a coffe, a nap or answer my cellphone.<p>No TV in my apartment.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/O5myrqn.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/O5myrqn.jpg</a>
I did a blog post a few years back with a compilation of pictures of offices of independent programmers:
<a href="http://successfulsoftware.net/2009/07/27/where-i-program/" rel="nofollow">http://successfulsoftware.net/2009/07/27/where-i-program/</a><p>Check out the 'breaking bad' style office.
My (hopefully!) temporary setup consists of a table over the freezer in the corner of the kitchen. Flanked by enormo-pepper grinder and box-radio. On the plus side, I'm never far away from snacks...<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/uBotECk.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/uBotECk.jpg</a>
I work from my apartment in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood in Montreal. It's a small prewar apartment, and the living room has its original stucco walls.<p>I work sometimes from my desk, sometimes from a standing standing at the other side of the room by the window, and sometimes from neighborhood cafes.<p>I posted pictures of my setup to /r/minimalism a while ago. Note that I have since failed to keep up this system perfectly, but often my desk does look like this. Seeing what I posted has inspired me to deal with loose paper better, which is my main cause of clutter.<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/minimalism/comments/1hi0i7/my_new_minimal_desk_setup_pics_explanations/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/minimalism/comments/1hi0i7/my_new_mi...</a>
I am currently having a very simple one. But I admired this one <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/paladin27/3217388885/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/paladin27/3217388885/</a> a lot. Will soon make out something like it.
I work from home part time (living in a small apartment) and built a standing desk out of a shelf, a piece of wood and a black glass plate. I specifically designed it as small and simple as possible so my work space has no physical distractions and there is no space left for piling paperwork.<p>I also created a physical Kanban board to manage day-to-day tasks, it's right next to the standing desk and I enjoy its omnipresence because I can always see the big picture of my work. (also the mere exposure effect kicks in :) )<p>Here's a picture, it's small, it's simple, I love it:
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Funnily enough, MKBHD recently did a long video showing a variety of his viewers setups recently. I've linked to the unique setups section as these are possibly more interesting (there are quite a lot) <a href="http://youtu.be/pmnLca3FneU?t=1h53m23s" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/pmnLca3FneU?t=1h53m23s</a><p>also worth checking out lifehacker which features a lot of setups too:<p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/most-popular-featured-workspaces-of-2013-1482839620" rel="nofollow">http://lifehacker.com/most-popular-featured-workspaces-of-20...</a><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/lifehacker-workspace-showandtell/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/groups/lifehacker-workspace-showandte...</a>
I work from home as a freelancer.<p>I use a flat desk, which I extended on both sides so its more wide. Under left side of it is chassis & UPS, under right are routers and subwoofer. On far left side on the desk you can see laptop, and on right one various stuff that form one mess :) Also there is a white light lamp that forms nice soft backlight in the background (it's not that strong as it is in picture). This summer I plan to move, so I plan to get a new setup, a better desk and a better cable management.<p><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68877713/IMG_20140426_194809.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68877713/IMG_20140426_19...</a>
I live full-time in an Airstream travel trailer with my wife.<p>This is my corner..
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After kids ate up our spare bedrooms, my home office is a desk in the corner of the master bedroom with my MacBook Pro. I mounted a monitor on the wall with a swivel arm to clear a little desk space. A few hard drives for backups in the corner. Too much clutter on the top of the desk.<p>I often work from a chair in the living room or the dining room table as well. Or I go out to libraries, a hackerspace, McDonalds, sports bar, Barnes and Noble, etc. to work.<p>I do have a low-power, mini server stack out in the family room, next to the big TV. A Raspberry Pi, two Pogoplugs, a DDWRT router, a pile of hard drives.
Darn, missed this thread yesterday. Here is mine. It's gone through some changes...it's never perfect.<p><a href="http://imgur.com/a/3R5kP" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/a/3R5kP</a>
Like this: <a href="http://youtu.be/GAJSnJE8Fu4" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/GAJSnJE8Fu4</a> :) full of junk and clutter. It is not a good example to follow
I use either my coffee or dining table, both made of solid oak. If neither are available, I use the floor. Being a big music fan, I often drag a pair of portable speakers and a broken ipod around (currently hardcore, breakcore and Scott Joplin).<p>Although I use a laptop, I stick to a mouse, touchpads drive me up the wall. Generally speaking, I prefer my hardware ugly and robust, as opposed to sleek and fragile.
Converted day 6'x6' walk in closet into my office..
Hung a 40" on the center of the wall, with 20" panel..
Kneeling chair, and storage for books and stuff around the top..
<a href="http://imgur.com/PgLEaO3" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/PgLEaO3</a><p>I thought it would feel cramped at first, but it doesn't.. Allows me much greater focus, and everything is in arms reach.
Equipment. Equipment everywhere. You can't go wrong with scopes, frequency generators, logic analyzers, power supplies, and good ol' t-slot. This isn't quite my entire office but this should give you an idea:<p><a href="https://www.defaultstore.com/?q=node/42" rel="nofollow">https://www.defaultstore.com/?q=node/42</a><p>It's only slightly less insane than my work office.
Photo: <a href="http://bryan.cx/ptRk/3k1S0VoL" rel="nofollow">http://bryan.cx/ptRk/3k1S0VoL</a><p>I usually try to keep my office pretty simple and clean. White parsons desks, aeron chair, cinema display and retina MBP.<p>I also have two Lifx bulbs in the lamps that I'm hoping to use for visual notifications when they open their API.
Desk: two sawhorses tables, + view on the left, + view on the right. Shared via G+ because we hipsters love dead technologies ;)<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/118392785163397399948/albums/6006614910159831297" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/photos/118392785163397399948/albums/...</a>
Like this: <a href="http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/the-geekdesk-writing-space-post/" rel="nofollow">http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/the-geekdesk-writin...</a> . The most notable part is the sit-stand desk. It would be very hard to go back to sitting desks only.
I just moved my work setup back home. <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/singularityhack/media/grid?idx=7&tid=403274315568652288" rel="nofollow">https://mobile.twitter.com/singularityhack/media/grid?idx=7&...</a>
I have a standing desk (adjustable but not automatic to sitting desk) but I'm on and off of it. My work setup anywhere is pretty much just my laptop majority of the time regardless of where I'm using it.
I've created a standing desk by using wallshelves.<p><a href="https://secure.verwijs.org/tmp/standing_desk.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://secure.verwijs.org/tmp/standing_desk.jpg</a>
I moved out of the US a year ago to travel around the world but never left the first city I visited in asia. I work from home. My split level condo is on the 40th floor with a view of the sunset, ocean, and the city skyline. My office moves from living room to bedroom depending on houseguests. I have 2 27" apple cinema displays; each on its own aidata laptop desk that can be raised so I can stand or sit. I have a chair that can recline from sitting position to laying flat. I have a vibrating exercise machine that I stand on when I'm tired of sitting. I have a surround system and a projector so I can watch hd movies across from where I work. The projector screen is about 8 feet wide (I wish I had the space to project a larger image). The projector is hooked up to a macbook pro with a 4TB disk with about 1200 movies.<p>Despite all that, I think the best part is that my gf (who is half my age) hangs out on the couch next to me.
Question: How does your office look like [Microsoft's]
Answer: Because we [employed the same interior decorator].<p>Question: How does your office look?
Answer: It looks nice.<p>Question: What does your office look like?
Answer: It uses XYZ colour scheme and has lots of tables and chairs.<p>Question: What does your [ideal] office look like?
Answer: I wish it had....<p>[For background: I am not big into being pedantic about 'correct' grammar, but areas where small mistakes do create hours worth of confusion, sometimes magnitudes of effect more (particularly within global collaborative environments).]