Working from home - Lets see your workspace/desk...

Done more work on our office today. Took out the sofa ready for the tip, still some painting to do, lights to put up and a radiator cover to make as well as a few other small bits and then the former minging pink granny anex is done. Got a plan for a cool table made out of this old cool crate box thing the wifes grandad gave me before he sadly passed away so also going to make a coffee table from that.

 
I used to love the MS intelimouse. Back when I was a counter strike legend amongst my friends. Had some crappy mice since then until mother in law bought me a logitech G502. What an xmas present that was a few years ago!
 
fobose said:
I used to love the MS intelimouse. Back when I was a counter strike legend amongst my friends. Had some crappy mice since then until mother in law bought me a logitech G502. What an xmas present that was a few years ago!
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Im still a cs legend... just a lot slower :D
 
haha. I swapped mice and monitor around the same time (mitsubishi diamond pro 920) and lost my mojo. Mistakenly bought a LG I think 17" TFT at the time. Looked great on my desk, gaming skills declined instantly.
 
fobose said:
haha. I swapped mice and monitor around the same time (mitsubishi diamond pro 920) and lost my mojo. Mistakenly bought a LG I think 17" TFT at the time. Looked great on my desk, gaming skills declined instantly.
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When I first went 4k it was like I was all of a sudden totally aimless. Took literally months before I could hit anything again. No longer have the 4k and have 3440x1440 and csgo hates the res and has all sorts of issues so I now play with 2560 and it is ok. But yea any change in hardware and you need to learn stuff again :)

I am sad and have been playing cs since back in the day around 1.5/1.6 I remember the days of the big riot shields in the apartments on italy :D good times.
 
Heh, I tried for years to get my mojo back. I kept that monitor for a long time, should have burnt it I think. Back then the input lag was quite high on the first TFT monitors, maybe like 25ms or more. I bought some expensive dell ultra sharp monitors later on and didn't have any luck with those either. Maybe I just peaked at a young age ;)
 
Finished our WFH setup today, pretty happy with it. It's only temporary as we have a house purchase in progress that'll complete in the next few months hopefully. The left monitor is 30" and the pair are both 32" 4k, the desks are bigger than they look at first glance!

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I have a whole kitchen sat in the garage that I took out of my last place before I left, and wanted to find a use for it. So I carved up the wooden worktop, got two 120x60cm desks and some offcuts off the first bit. Bought a 70quid Makita orbital sander and stripped them all back. 4-5 coats of Danish oil. Bought some black steel square table legs online.

Job done. Used an offcut to put on top of the cheap ikea drawers in the middle, need to find something to put under it to level it out still. Used another offcut as a footrest on my side :)

To think I was going to spend hundreds on buying desks....definitely just going to make simple stuff like this in future.
 
I do like the finish on the worktops @mid_gen - looks very good.

I'll post up a picture of my desk once Dell have delivered my new monitors tomorrow and I've sorted out the cabling!
 
sovietspybob said:
You guys are all far too neat, i'm working from home 4 days a week still but my study is pretty much a dumping ground for stuff so not much space left and no time to tidy up anything with my toddler daughter racing around causing havoc everywhere.

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Reassuring to see a realistic pic in amongst all the showhome stuff, that's like a tidier version of my office setup. Agreed with young kids no time to make everything neat.
 
HangTime said:
Reassuring to see a realistic pic in amongst all the showhome stuff, that's like a tidier version of my office setup. Agreed with young kids no time to make everything neat.
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I think a lot of people on here fail to understand simple things like. This thread is for people who as a result of covid now find themselves working from home and have therefore had to buy / build a setup to do so.

It's pretty obvious that a lot of the pics on here are pre covid 19 set ups.

My home gaming setup looks fancy and neat. My covid 19 wfh setup on the other hand is a bodge job but I'll be making it much better and a permanent setup soon with 3 screens hopefully.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
I think a lot of people on here fail to understand simple things like. This thread is for people who as a result of covid now find themselves working from home and have therefore had to buy / build a setup to do so.

It's pretty obvious that a lot of the pics on here are pre covid 19 set ups.
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That's not stipulated anywhere though; the OP put this in H&G not Covid forum and no mention of it having to be as a result of change to WFH when weren't previously, although it's reasonable to infer that was the case for them "day 2".
 
HangTime said:
That's not stipulated anywhere though; the OP put this in H&G not Covid forum and no mention of it having to be as a result of change to WFH when weren't previously, although it's reasonable to infer that was the case for them "day 2".
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Yeah it's not stipulated anywhere but its pretty obviously the intention.

What I'd like to know is how has your work helped contribute towards your home set up?

My work has been a shambles. They offered help but it was all done the wrong way, people criticised it and then after several months changed it so its then screwed over those that took advantage initially.

Before it was £40 for a monitor now upped to £100. I paid £35 for a second hand dell off ebay but now I could have gotten something substantially better or went dual screens. Since I took advantage initially I cannot make a second claim.

It was also £80 for a chair and £150 for a desk.

Now changed to £230 for a desk or chair or any combo of the 2.
 
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