Hi all
DH and I have both been working from home for over a year. I'm part time and he's full time. Towards the beginning we bought a desk and I bought home my desktop equipment (monitors, docking station, keyboard), and since then we have taken turn to use the desk whilst the other works elsewhere on their laptop. Now, like many others, it looks like we'll never go back full time to the office, and in my case in particular I'll be at home far more than I'm in the office.
Due to the nature of DH's role he has more need of additional monitors, whilst for me I can make do with the laptop screen. However it's still sub-optimal for me, and obviously ergonomically speaking it's better to have a proper desk set up with a proper monitor.
Problem is we don't have room for a second desk. And even if we did make room for one, we wouldn't want it to be constantly set up as a desk - we want something that we can set a monitor on but that we can hide away outside of work hours, as it will be in a family room rather than an office.
I know there are some pieces of furniture you can buy that fold out into a desk and then fold away into a sideboard or similar, but they all seem really pricey, and I'm sure there are some creative people out there who have come up with cheap and effective alternatives.
Any ideas?