Aaah, this is the life! (Click for bigger images)

Setting up a home office is a lot of work, especially when:

• You moved two years of documentation home from the office and have to go through it all
• You’re starting a brand new job, which constitutes coming up with a whole new organization system, quickly.
• The stupid goddamn printer/copier/scanner you ordered quit working 24 hours out of the box (never buy a Kodak printer!)
• You forgot to buy a 3-ring hole puncher, and your preferred organization method is binders.
• The new office chair you bought isn’t as comfortable as you thought
• You have a 175 pound dog who won’t leave your side while you’re trying to put things together

Here’s what my corner of my upstairs loft looks like so far.

My home computer is in the cabinet in the desk, below the drawer you see on the right.  My work computer is a laptop in a docking station.  I don’t like how high the docking station makes my monitor, but not much I can do with such a small work area.  On the right is a cedar chest where I put my work printer (that doesn’t work).  My home printer is on top of the desk area until I can get a longer printer cord.

I use a KVM cable to switch between my work and home computer, so that I can use the same monitor/mouse/keyboard for both.  It took me forever to find one with USB ports - I finally had to mail order to get one!  I would think it would be a common need.  Anyone have a better solution?

Off to the side, a broken printer, a filing cabinet.  The TV armoire is on the far left, but I hardly ever use that TV.  It’s tiny!  Watching TV in the day is NOT a temptation either.

Directly to the right of my desk is a linen closet.  I’ve turned it into a work annex.  This is what you see when you look into the door…

And this is what is around the corner in the closet.  I need to buy one of those stick-up battery operated lights or something.

And there you have it!  My home workspace.

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