I think I found my new home!

[Jimbuna]

Coming along very nicely...time to start filming the documentary

[Wolferz]

Excellent work mein Frau.

My desk came with holz already in it for cable management and very nice preinstalled brass grommets. neenerneener

I can see you now, with drill securely attached to your utility belt, standing atop the tallest building and contemplating where to put the next hole.
Being a hirsute driller of evil wood is a wooly existence...
Watch out crinimals with wood. Bosch Girl is watching.
You can try to hole up in a hole in the wall to no avail.

Tune in to next weeks boring episode....

C'mon Plug my trusty sidekick. It's time to go to the super hero supply store and buy a shop vac.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Necessity isn't just the mother of invention. It's also the mother of "git-r-done". That desk looks like it was done by a professional.

[AVGWarhawk]

Nice work!

This is like reality TV!

[frau kaleun]

Thanks guys!

Oy, and yeah - the sawdust. One of those things you don't think about until it's all over the place.

Fortunately, this



was one of the first things I bought. Nice little dustbuster and it has more than earned its keep already.

[Wolferz]

Time to start the list for the pit?



Well, gee Wern! What did you expect? I told you what would happen if you teased that thing!

[The Enigma]

It's looking good Frau.
Finally the wholes are in place.
It took a while but now you have several nice wholes to camouflage.

[Sailor Steve]

The whole whats are in place? The whole holes? How does she tell if the holey holes are wholly whole?

[Wolferz]

If a half pint will make her half tight, will a whole pint....err never mind.

[frau kaleun]

Ta da!



Now for the cleanup and placement:





Subwoofer in the middle on the bottom, computer bottom right, printer on top of the drawer unit... originally I was going to put the lateral file where the drawer unit is now and the drawers and printer on the other side. But I just don't like that setup. So unless it looks and feels different once the rest of the room is in better order, it'll probably stay up against the wall just inside the door, basically to the right of where I was standing when I took the picture.

Not the chair I'll be using in there permanently, obviously, just the only one I have in the place at the moment. I'll have to put 3-4 chair pads on it just to make the seat high enough to use at the desk, lol. Sadly I can't get my desk chair in my car to take it over there and it's just about shot anyway - so I doubt it'll make even the final trip in the truck. I'll just have to make do until I decide on something new. Thankfully once my dinette chairs are there I can use one of those, which is far more suitable and stable.

Also not sure about the keyboard drawer, it blocks easy access to the little shelf behind it and I'm not crazy about that. One of those things I'll have to decide on once I start using the desk regularly. Fortunately removing it is no big deal and if I take it off you would never know it was ever there.

Eventually I want to put a TV and some kind of storage for CDs and DVDs along the wall to the left, where one of the bookcases is laying now. Bookshelves along the wall to the right and around the corner to where the file cabinet will probably stay. With the desk sitting where it is now, I'll have easy access to the back of my computer and other peripherals, and with decent cable management it shouldn't look too messy back there.

I do need to get some kind of blinds for those windows, because the curtains have got to go but the sun in the late afternoon and evening is murder. That's why I have the curtains pulled together on that one window, the sunlight is quite literally blinding at a certain time of day. I'll have to block it or I won't be able to sit at that desk and do anything. And if the desk was in the only available corner, I'd have it shining directly on the monitor which wouldn't be good either.

Speaking of which, I meant to measure those windows so I could start looking for something to put up there and I totally forgot. I can't imagine why, it's not like I've got about three million other things on my mind right now. This morning my brain was so addled that when I was getting dressed I sat down and put my socks and shoes on and tied my shoes and stood up and thought "well that's done" and then realized I didn't have my pants on yet.

Home surprisingly early tonight, thank heavens. I'm gonna grab something to eat and see how much of my non-essential-for-the-moment office mess here in the apartment I can break down and pack up before bedtime. Won't get it loaded in the car so I'll have to come get it tomorrow after work and take it to the condo. Got to stop by there at least once tomorrow since I remembered to put the trash out for collection in the morning and I've got to have the trash can pulled back in before dark.

SO GLAD to have that job done.

[Wolferz]

SO GLAD to have that job done.

What took you so long?

/ducks and runs.

[Sailor Steve]

It's a little saddening that you went to all that trouble to get the right corner desk and now there isn't a corner to put it in.

My apartment is just the opposite of your new office. It faces east, so in any season but summer the morning sun is a problem. Lucky for me I do have blinds, even though blinds are all I have. My last little place had curtains so thick that the room was actually so dark when they were closed that you couldn't read. It was perfect for computer stuff.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It's a little saddening that you went to all that trouble to get the right corner desk and now there isn't a corner to put it in.

My apartment is just the opposite of your new office. It faces east, so in any season but summer the morning sun is a problem. Lucky for me I do have blinds, even though blinds are all I have. My last little place had curtains so thick that the room was actually so dark when they were closed that you couldn't read. It was perfect for computer stuff.

Honestly I'd already decided against putting the desk in the corner before I knew what the sunlight would be like from those windows, so that's not the issue. I didn't like the idea of having my back to the windows all the time since they're ground level, and if I put it there the entire back of it would be up against the wall and with bookshelves or other stuff on either side along each wall I'd have the same issues with access to cables and whatnot that I have now. I didn't want that.

I'm guessing I'll have to get some kind of room darkening or blackout window treatments in there, at least for the top portions of the windows. Fortunately I shouldn't have to cover the bottom portion just to keep sunlight out of my face and that's the part that opens so it won't be completely dark and airless. I'm used to an overhead light in the room where my computer is now, so some light coming in at knee level and below shouldn't be a bother.

In the meantime I'll just keep drawing the curtains... one of the upstairs bedrooms has what looks like a pair of blackout curtains on the window there, I can switch them out with the ones if the office if necessary until I figure out what I'm gonna do for a permanent solution.

[Wolferz]

After looking closely at the finished project, that desk seems most spacious through and through. A good buy that looks to bring years of faithful service. It was a load of fun following your adventure too.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I didn't like the idea of having my back to the windows all the time since they're ground level.

Why would anybody have their office on ground level?
What other smileys can I use to show that I'm not really serious before I get seriously hurt?

This is why I wanted an upstairs apartment, and why if I can ever afford a place of my own the computer will be as far upstairs as it can get (a little tower would be nice). The point isn't that you don't want people watching you (well, that's important too), it's so you can look down on people! I can see cars go by and people walking along, but they are all beneath me! it helps that I'm at least one hundred feet from the road, but that's a side-issue. The important part is feeling superior.