Home office!

lord_kjar stayed up till midnight last night building me a monitor stand. Sadly, I forgot to take photos during the day today, so you will have to content yourself with a description for now, and I will see if I remember the existence of cameras tomorrow.

With this addition the craft room/library/office is now done. He has his computer desk between the two windows, my work station is in front of the right hand window. From my rocking chair I can look past my monitors to our yard and the lovely tree (see the last post I did which actually had photos). Along the right hand wall (as one faces the windows) is a row of bookshelves. Since he got rid of some old papers when we moved these shelves now contain both books and papers and a few random craft items that didn't fit elsewhere. the back wall contains our stack of amazingly useful drawers full of pretty much everything that needs to be easy to find, but is kind of small. the left wall is built in cabinets and drawers which are now full of fabric (on shelves and in drawers) and SCA clothing (hanging from hangers).

In the middle of the room is the floor loom, and attached to the side of the loom is my new monitor stand. It is actually a double shelf--the upper shelf is large enough for my personal computer, and the monitor arm attaches to the edge of that. The lower shelf is a convenient place to set down a bowl of food before I sit down so that it will be in easy reach from the chair. to the right of my rocking chair is an old large wooden speaker which serves as a support for the other monitor arm, which has been converted to a tray for my work computer. The tray to support my computer drawing tablet and pen is also attached to that speaker. This means that I can sit here and do uni work using the work computer and the spare monitor, and if I need something on my other computer I have only to turn slightly to the left. This is a huge improvement over the set up at the apartment, where it was necessary for the computers to take turns sitting on the stand, and I could only use one at a time.

Needless to say, I am quite happy with this set up, and worked far later into this evening than I would have done if I had gone into the office. I think that working from home will be good for my research. Granted, I will still need to go in sometimes, but first I want to catch up to where I think I should have been by now...

This makes three rooms done--next we start on downstairs. However, he had to drive to Kiruna for work today (4 hour drive), and isn't home yet (it is 20:30, so he should be home soonish), so I don't think it will happen tonight, and this weekend is an SCA event, so perhaps next week will see more progress on the house front...