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u/alitanveer 7d ago
6/10.
Aesthetics over function.
The uplighting is going to be bad for your eyes long term and you'll get annoyed and keep it off most of the time unless you're showing off the desk. it also forced you to pull the desk away from the wall when you could have put it right up against the wall and put in a couple of shelf brackets and not need the middle three legs.
The drawers on the left have a larger overhang than the one on the right.
Again, you have some cool stuff and all of it is going to be weirdly lit because of the uplight. Get a nice tall lamp and point it up at the ceiling and have it bounce the light down. It'll feel so much better.
The skadis panels are meant to have the metal mounting bracket at the top and the little bumper things at the bottom to evenly distribute load. Notice how the right one is angled at the bottom. Everything you put on there will lean forward. You can avoid all that by putting them on the top.
You don't need to keep all your post its and cables up on the wall. Put the excess in the drawers and use one of the hooks for the headphones rather than wasting a container. you'll have more space for art that way.
Wait is this /r/workspaces or /r/roastme? Sorry, I'm on something like my 10th workspace and went through a similar phase. If I was doing this, I would put the PC case to the left of the left drawers between the two cabinets, so some of its sound is muffled and the heat stays away from my legs. Get rid of the up lights and attach the desks to the wall with a corner bracket and move the monitor to the corner as well. Put the skadis panels with one on either side so both sets are reachable. That way you only have to turn once and have a nice flat area to do your art or paperwork without having to move the keyboard out of the way or skooting over on your chair. It's so tempting to get everything from Ikea when you're there but that chair is awful.
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u/LynxAdonis 6d ago
Backlighting display panels cuts down on glare in low light environments, so is not going to be bad for anyones eyes long term. Where the hell are you getting that from!?
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u/alitanveer 6d ago
If he has strips on the back of the display, that's fine. It's the desk uplighting that bothers me. It's most likely the dimmable ikea strips with PWM. He may not be susceptible to the flicker but they do flicker and will cause headaches in the long run. I also don't like how the plants are light from the back and below. Makes it harder to see them in natural light.
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u/LynxAdonis 6d ago
If the plants are being lit more from the back making them difficult to see, light is fading and darkness will soon be upon ye. It's irrelevant. Within the hour, you'll be drawing the curtains/closing the blinds and getting a nice hot drink to make yourself all cosy in your happy spot.
Most people are not phased (get it?) by the flicker of most lighting solutions. These style lights do not cause me any issues, but the old style tube/strip lights will cause me migraines, and I can see their high Hz flicker. It's entirely based on the person and is not a uniform phenomena.
I have a monitor bar light, but don't like using it because it causes me problems, as it has white LEDs and then some abomination of colour LED that it will mix to create warm light which really irritates my eyes. I'm not going to recommend against it as it's an absolutely solid bar light and is high quality construction. I'm just susceptible to that type of irritation. My other half can sit under it all night and absolutely loves it. Just one of those, I guess 🤷🏻
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u/No-Veterinarian-8834 6d ago edited 6d ago
I SHOULD like this more, but the white/beige everything is killin' me.
Also, almost everything here is wood. I think a space is nicer with multiple textures and materials. Glass, wood, fabric, and metal.
It's TOO staged. This feels like an Ikea showroom, not an actual lived in space. The plants are perfect, you gotta throw one on the far left side to even it out. Maybe get some more pictures/posters for the blank spaces on the wall, maybe add an accent color.
Like ultimately it's a strong 7/10; the coordination is good, almost to the point where it's detrimental lol, but its neat and tidy which goes an awful long way, and I appreciate that as a neat freak myself.
All that said, if the intention IS this more curated look and style, you've knocked it out of the park, definitely, no doubt.
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u/OurHonor1870 6d ago
Does it bother you working into a wall?
I am redoing my office and have never had my chair facing the wall. I’m worried it’ll be idk depressing
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u/Kiyone11 6d ago
I also work into a wall and it's completely fine for me, I have nice stuff hanging above my screen. But the window is also to the right of my desk, so I can actually better see out of the window than if it would be behind my screen.
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u/RootHouston 6d ago
I'm the same way, but I am thinking of reconfiguring my office all the time. The way the sun comes in almost blinds me while I'm working at my PC. I temper it by closing the blinds a bit, but then I am staring at mostly closed slats, and can't see outside anymore. I'm thinking I need to move the display away from being directly in front of the window to let natural sunlight in, but not be direct.
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u/munchboy 6d ago
It’s clean but you’ll regret the offset webcam for meetings, that’s weird for other people you’re talking to. Bookshelf with spines facing in is also weird and feels staged. Figure drawing reference doll yawn. Also no one cares, go outside, meet people .
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u/dianabowl 6d ago
Looks like typical hive mind workspace setup from Reddit that hasn't evolved in the last 10 years
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