Quite the bedroom makeover - have a look (loads of pics)

Started wiring everything up the next day.
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The printer is in the cabinet to the left of the above pic. Fitted perfectly, with a hole on the side of the cabinet for the wires to be tucked into.

The odd cable still hanging around the floor, but I got onto that.

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What can I say. Enough room for 3 chairs now with the space I've got.
 
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Also enough room for:
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I gave the 2001FP to my brother and bought myself a 2407WFP. The second one was for a customer and I tried it alongside my own to see what it would look like, but didn't fancy it. Will probably for for a 30" later.


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(Forgive the cables behind the PC there, they were previously held up by adhesive grips which I then replaced with hooks nailed to the board supporting the desk)

The space available now is just incredible. So much more floor space to sit at plus about 10 times the working area for the exact same corner I've always been at.

The printer space can be seen there. In the smaller shelf below that I have about 10 sockets and metres of wires all stuffed in out of the way of view. There's another 15 sockets or so sitting on the floor just beside the cabinet for easy access.
 
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This is my setup as of this morning, taken with the 2mp phone because my mum broke my camera.

Also spent a few hundred quid on Venetian blinds for the house, and they match the desk very well.

The shelves are packed full of accounting stuff, stationery, gadgets, business cards, books, you name it :) And PDA+phone docking stations, landline, joypad, joystick, coasters, post-its, alarm clock + light switch all within arm's reach. And now a nice surround setup from the speakers too.

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Had to include a photo of the Herman Miller Aeron chair somewhere :) 2 weeks after the room was finished I thew £650 at one and haven't looked back. The first decent chair I've had in 4 years and will have it for life knowing there's very little better out there if any.

So there you go. The whole thing cost maybe £3000, plus a lot of my time for painting/flooring/general helping with the desk. I was given a huge favour by my neighbour, doing it for a cut-rate price and if I had went for some company from the yellow pages it would have been 10 times the price, although price wouldn't have been the point there because I just wouldn't have had it done by anybody else. He done some swearing at me, and kept going on about how he could have built and fitted 3 or 4 kitchens in the time it took him to do this for me.
 
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Absolutely cracking job! Brilliant. Give yourself a nice pat on the back, as well as the carpenter and the other guys who helped. Sterling job! Brilliant. I can only imagine it was difficult with the unorthodox room layout. Nice work. Reminds me of Norm Abram of the New Yankee Workshop :)
 
That is just plain awesome. I know every kind of tradesman having worked at a Working Mens Club for 3 years, but the only one I dont know well is a Carpenter. Sods law because now I want one of those :p.
 
Andelusion - I loved the dual screens but it left no room on my desk for the laptop plus other bits and pieces unfortunately. Plus the two had to sit at an angle to each other, I would've wanted them to be in line with each other.

Whitecrook - I have about 5m of spiral wrap here but it's a bugger if I ever have to detach one of the cables or add another one in :) Plus the fact that they're well out of view already so it would be unnecessary. In fact, I peered under the desk just now to see what state they were in, and that was the first time I've seen or looked at the cables in months :)
 
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