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New baby moving into 'home office' - where do I put all my stuff?

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morningpaper · 09/09/2005 11:23

Arrival no. 2 is arriving in about a month, and in a few months will be moving into the spare bedroom/home office.

Where should I put all my home office stuff? There is no obvious spare room (no dining room or extra bedroom or anything) so it's either our bedroom or the lounge.

How have other people fitted their home offices into their houses?

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Gameboy · 09/09/2005 11:38

Summer house in garden or loft convesrion!

Rowlers · 09/09/2005 11:40

Chuck it all away and don't work at home.

morningpaper · 09/09/2005 11:44

Summer house in garden not really possible because the temperature fluctuates too much which is no good for computing equipment (which I need for my job!). Also it's very expensive!

Loft conversion is no good because the house is ex-council and we did have an engineer in to look at it but basically the house is made from cheese and wouldn't take the weight.

It's bedroom or lounge....

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hoppybird · 09/09/2005 21:48

We live in a two bedroom flat and have our home office spread between the living room and the bedroom, and boy is it a squeeze!

The bedroom contains the filing in a four-drawer A4 filing cabinet, and the living room (17 x 10 feet) contains both our PC's, as well as usual living room type stuff. We don't have a separate dining room, so there's a dining table in there too.

My dh built a special unit to cope with it all. It's not the most attractive thing, being made of 80s retro black ash, but it's functional and matches the video/DVD shelves (from dh's bachelor days) which feature prominently in our living room!

The unit stretches two thirds of one side of the room. It accommodates a TV in the middle, with printer, DVD, amp etc underneath, flanked either side by a three drawer unit with monitor on top and tower PC underneath. The keyboards are on slide-out drawers. There's a fax phone and a scanner squeezed into the equation too! The PCs are networked to each other and both are connected to the amp and main speakers, which is great for playing MP3s!

It is possible to do, but saying that, we're actually planning to move to somewhere bigger, as it is rather irritating being crammed into a tiny place with no room to swing the proverbial cat. No room to have any pets anyway, so any potential cat-swinging wouldn't even be an option .

Chandra · 09/09/2005 22:15

IKEA sells a couple of desks that look like a wardrobe or bureau when clossed (and fits in most alcoves), they also have a desktop (with a drawer for the keyboard) that can be installed inside a pax wardrobe. Sure, not as much space for storage as in a full bedroom but a good compromise if you really want to hide the computer away.

Chandra · 09/09/2005 22:18

PS, they are named ALVE Workspace series

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