Workspace of the Week: Minimalist workstation duet
This week’s Workspace of the Week is hey.brad’s part-time pit stop:
Not every home office needs to be a dedicated room lined with bookshelves and large pieces of wood furniture. In fact, if you work at an office during the day, a small work station may completely meet your needs at home. This week’s selection is perfect for people who don’t have a lot of space, paperwork, and/or digital needs. In this office, you can pay the bills, answer a few e-mails, and leave the heavy office work at your job. Hey.brad built a space that does all that it needs to do. A setup like this would also be nice in an entryway to a home to get mail handled before it comes further into your home. Thank you, hey.brad, for your inventive addition to our group.
Want to have your own workspace featured in Workspace of the Week? Submit a picture to the Unclutterer flickr pool. Check it out because we have a nice little community brewing there. Also, don’t forget that workspaces aren’t just desks. If you’re a cook, it’s a kitchen; if you’re a carpenter, it’s your workbench.
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Posted by Erin on Jun 5, 2009 |
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Posted by Rue - 06/05/2009
LOVE IT. Is the space actually completely in black or white or was it tweaked with a photo editor?
Posted by BlackMacX - 06/05/2009
This is inspiring; not for my desk though, more for my wife’s needs (as she uses a MacBook). It’s also nice as it takes up little space and is clean and simple. Thereby it could fit in anywhere.
Posted by Michelle - 06/05/2009
Ahhhhhh. This photo is so relaxing! I would LOVE to do something like this in my home office, but I just don’t have the wall space. I wonder if there is a way to bisect a window with one of these zen shelves? That way I could have a view AND be able to keep the desk at a reasonable height.
Posted by eva - 06/05/2009
Could a setup like that support a small desktop PC, do you think? Like, for instance, a Mac mini with a flatscreen LCD?
Posted by Geri - 06/05/2009
Far too dreary for me. Maybe some colour or a houseplant might (simply) brighten this up. Still, it would be perfect for short bursts of work, finishing things up etc.
Posted by Dawn - 06/05/2009
A gorgeous orchid or simple plant would be perfect on the top shelf – just to give a little life to the space. Love the wall paint. Very clean and streamlined.
Posted by momofthree - 06/05/2009
ICK-ICK-ICK–no color, drab, and depressing to me…no natural light steaming in …no back support on the stools…
I am sitting here right now with my feet propped up on the ottoman and leaning back in my chair swigging down my B’fast OJ.
I want to be comfortable when I am working. How can anyone sit for any great length of time without back support?
I do like the floating shelf idea, but the desktop space sure is small.
Posted by Jesse - 06/05/2009
Very nice, clean and simple.
After I move later this summer, I’m going to have to find a way to integrate a workstation into a small bedroom. I was going to use one section of a wall unit, taking out the bottom shelf for legroom, and putting a printer and harddrive on a top shelf running the wires behind the upright so they’re out of sight…
but I like this look alot more!
Posted by Kathryn - 06/05/2009
If all I needed for my “home office” was a filing cabinet and a space to prop up my laptop, I’d just stick the filing cabinet in a closet somewhere and compute on the Big Comfy Couch. Even more minimalist.
Posted by Lori Paximadis - 06/05/2009
Perfect for short-burst work, like hey.brad said. I agree that I’d want a more comfortable setup and some back support if I had to work there for any length of time, but that isn’t the purpose of this area.
Posted by Ericka - 06/05/2009
@ Lori – Agreed, I was going to comment the same thing on the back-support.
Posted by rogier - 06/06/2009
looks nice, but working with two people on a flimsy IKEA Lack bookshelf? that’s rediculous!
Posted by Shalin - 06/06/2009
Just too look at It sooo…relllaaaxing… (at least partly due to the fine photography/lighting).
I also really like this because it kinda says “hey, this is *primarily* for pitstops – not to veg out all day long.”
–S
Posted by Doreen - 06/07/2009
I love color. This space would be like a personal hell to me.
Posted by Amy - 06/08/2009
It looks like an ergonomics nightmare, but it would be incentive for one to work quickly and not procrastinate, like I sometimes do.
Posted by Leah - 06/08/2009
I dare anyone to sit down at that contrived space and work for a week, and see how functional it is. First of all, neither laptop is plugged in (why? I suspect that would ruin the lines). Second, the stool thingies would hurt both back and butt within 30 minutes. Third, there’s no need for a printer, pen, paper, etc?
This is just a designer’s space, like a model home that is never used. It looks pretty to seduce us with impossibilities.
Posted by Misty - 06/09/2009
Its a very calm, clean photo. I love the monochromatic color scheme, though I agree a potted plant/shot of green would look fab.
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