Where do you Work From "Home"

[original PM]

the study or the drawing room

[RSoles]

Actually I converted the servants' quarters. Honest.

[redgiant]

Dedicated office in my dungeon cellar. Variable height desk, comfortable chair, enough screen space, and not too far from the kitchen for tea and coffee.

Which desk do you use and do you have it so you have to stand up?

[d000hg]

Yep a log cabin.

I go to work, I come home it may be 20 feet but its enough.

Mrs V is a child minder so I would trip over crying brats all day.

Sounds good. On the one hand it seems a waste of a log cabin you use it for work, on the other you are actually using it several hours a day which is unlikely if it was for recreation.

Is it a nice place to be because it's a log cabin or is that just for external aesthetics? We've stayed in proper cabins in Finland and they're very nice spaces.

[MrMarkyMark]

NLUKs Mrs likes to keep things fairly fluid.

She has the following preferred working locations:-

The dingy dark fully equipped dungeon.

The Elton John Suite, fully lined in oil proof PVC.

The Christopher Biggins Naughty Boy Room.

MFs Feeders Paradise (All equipment reinforced for extra loads)

[Lockhouse]

I've got a dedicated office at home that I designed and decorated myself in high art deco style. It's got hand made repro 20's lead lights and hidden surround sound system behind original brass floor registers in a 1920's sunburst pattern that I ordered from the States. I sanded the backs off the registers and used some original period speaker cloth to finish them off then fitted them on the ceiling to look like air con vents fitting cube speakers behind. I added stepped coving and a hexagonal ceiling rose plus a plaster art deco "wing" over the door frame. The skirting was replaced with a 1923 reproduction pattern and a repro bakelite light switch was ordered from a specialist firm in Australia. My 1930's framed motor racing posters are all from the same firm in France who produced the pre-war originals. A local firm made curtains for me from some pattern photos taken at an old theatre in the US. The desk and bookcases are reproduction 1920's stylee with cream fronts over bronze with leather handles. I bought some vintage marble photo frames and a 1920's marble clock from various antique shops and Fleabay. The clock garnitures are used as bookends for my collection of cocktail books.

I spend a lot of time in here. You may think I'm quite mad.

[vetran]

Sounds good. On the one hand it seems a waste of a log cabin you use it for work, on the other you are actually using it several hours a day which is unlikely if it was for recreation.

Is it a nice place to be because it's a log cabin or is that just for external aesthetics? We've stayed in proper cabins in Finland and they're very nice spaces.

Once insulated top, bottom & window surrounds its not too bad, its a little chilly with snow on the ground but I have a little electric oil radiator for that (it is made of wood so no fire).

Its this one

Log cabins, wooden garages, garden buildingins, bespoke log cabins, butumen shingles

Looks like you can get it all installed for £7K

Rumus Plus 2 Log Cabin 44mm 5x3m


Inside its wood ceiling, walls & floor decorate how you want, I varnished the floor & left the rest plain. There is enough hi tech hardware to stop it feeling sparse. Fitted a 2.5 M bench & Skirting boards in the office, Kitchen cabinets in the workshop, door is into the workshop so the office stays warm.

Its in the corner with the shed, there will be a fence & flowerbed in front of it.

I plan to hide it slightly by covering it in lots of gutter hydroponics & hanging baskets. We will have a veggie garden that the snails & kids don't ruin. You can also use it for climbing plants or similar.

[MrMarkyMark]

I've got a dedicated office at home that I designed and decorated myself in high art deco style. It's got hand made repro 20's lead lights and hidden surround sound system behind original brass floor registers in a 1920's sunburst pattern that I ordered from the States. I sanded the backs off the registers and used some original period speaker cloth to finish them off then fitted them on the ceiling to look like air con vents fitting cube speakers behind. I added stepped coving and a hexagonal ceiling rose plus a plasterer art deco "wing" over the door frame. I replaced the skirting with a 1923 reproduction pattern. I ordered an repro bakelite light switch from a specialist firm in Australia. My 1930's framed motor racing posters are all from the same firm in France who produced the pre-war originals. A local firm made curtains for me from some pattern photos I took at an old theatre in the US. The desk and bookcases are reproduction 1920's stylee with cream fronts over bronze with leather handles. I bought some vintage marble photo frames and a 1920's marble clock from various antique shops and Fleabay. I use the clock garnitures as bookends for my collection of cocktail books. I spend a lot of time in here. You may think I'm quite mad.

Sounds a bit over the top, but still subtle.......................I really like the sound of it

[Lockhouse]

Sounds a bit over the top, but still subtle.......................I really like the sound of it

Cheers. It's not Phantom of the Opera-like, It's a relaxing place to be.

[MrMarkyMark]

Cheers. It's not Phantom of the Opera-like, It's a relaxing place to be.

My Dads wife is big on art deco, they have a mixture of period stuff in their house.
The way you kit up a room has a lot to do with how you feel in it, at least it does for me.

They buy/sell that sort of thing too, last time I went down they had an amazing large fan, from the '20s, made of Ostrich feathers, with its own case.