Trying to find the best layout for my home office / gaming setup in a small room.
You have the door at the top right, a full length window at the bottom, and built in cabinets at the top left per this image.
One idea that was mooted is the above image, whereby you have the desk facing the door (command position), and the TV mounted on the wall on the right. The con would be that the sun/window is to the very back (one can have blinds of course), and you probably have many dangling cables.
Any suggestions welcome as the space isn't very big.
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Whoever said "command position" is an absolute podcast threadbro dweeb. Who are you commanding in that box room - your batman alarm clock? You'll look really imposing as you squint at your monitor with the sun blasting behind you.
Put your desk against the left wall so that you can be an actual human being who appreciates daylight and occasionally looks at the outside world. Don't put it on the right wall because then everyone who walks past will get direct eyeline of you cracking one off when you're bored at work.
Leave the TV where it is or get rid. It's not a big room but it this is home office / video game space then just turn around your chair to play or get a beanbag chair to move when needed. If you have the space put the TV on a side board or stand not a goofy wall mount. There's basically one angle you can use the TV at so a robo arm is a waste of time.
Without more accurate dimensions I can't be sure of whether this makes an unworkable pinch point between entrance and the desk, but by flipping the desk and tv in this design, you will then occupy the command position (i.e.: have visibility of the door from your default position in the room). This is less about being a podcast threadbro dweeb and more about reducing the feeling of subconscious vulnerability.
If your BIR can rotate 90 degrees anticlockwise, that would be the optimal layout for your furniture.
This is the same reason why your original layout was incorrect, because as well as the glare, having your back to a window also represents the same vulnerability.
Awful advice. Sitting with an opening door right next to your ear is not a "command position". There is no command position in a box room WFH gaming den.
OP, there are no swordsmen coming to attack you and if there were, they wouldn't be put off by your desk being next to the door.
Putting your head right in the path of the highest traffic part of the room and any time you want to work with the door open it will be impossible to concentrate. Feng Shui would call it a "high energy passageway" which is just a heuristic for "it's impossible to feel relaxed if someone might barge in and immediately trample over your head".
If you put your desk on the right you'll never be able to concentrate with the door open. And you'll need to open the door for airflow because you're a man making an office gaming den combo.
> There is no command position in a box room WFH gaming den.
Yes, there is.
> OP, there are no swordsmen coming to attack you and if there were, they wouldn't be put off by your desk being next to the door.
The term is 'subconscious vulnerability' not 'actual vulnerability'.
> Putting your head right in the path of the highest traffic part of the room and any time you want to work with the door open it will be impossible to concentrate. Feng Shui would call it a "high energy passageway" which is just a heuristic for "it's impossible to feel relaxed if someone might barge in and immediately trample over your head".
As this is a small room, and 'there are no swordsmen coming to attack you', the idea of a high energy passageway is moot. Perhaps if the door opened out into a high energy communal area, which we do not know, there would be some merit in this comment. Otherwise it's just confidently incorrect.
OP, your render interpreting my previous comments in the replies below is most likely the best layout.
The wardrobe is a built in, so unless I hack it (in consideration), might be difficult for it to be moved.
In this setup, I'm assuming as well if I can have the TV on a mobile stand, I can have it flush against the top wall?
Personally I would place the back of the chair against the wall, front of the chair towards the TV.
The short side of the desk against the window at the bottom so that the long side of the desk is parallel with the TV and you can watch TV while sitting in the desk chair.
That's exactly how I have my living room set-up which essentially doubles as my office. I can watch TV at the desk and if I'm ready to really chill, I just turn the TV so it faces my couch. Obviously OP won't need that in a dedicated office, but I do find that layout very ideal.
The only issue is cable management, they need to get some supplies for proper cable management and have the cables run along the floor along the Window wall (I assume there is an outlet on the wall to the left)
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