How's this for a challenge? Meg and her husband Will both run two separate businesses (their indie record label and Meg's fashion design company, Enderby) all from their home...not to mention needing a place to store equipment for Meg's web show, Decor It Yourself, and Will's band, Olde Ghost. Faced with this dilemma, they decided to revamp their home office with the goal of having the space "well-organized, multi-faceted, inspiring, and have a good energy flow."
Their record collection is stored in the ever-popular Expedit bookcase; and on the opposite wall, all the materials and suppled for Enderby is stored on wall-mounted floating shelves. The office originally had a computer desk in the corner facing the wall...
...but after replacing their computer desk with a vintage L-shaped one they found on Craigslist ($100!), they moved their work area to face the windows, offering a nice view during the workday. An added bonus? The L-shape configuration of their new desk allows them to keep both the computer and the sewing machine out.
Check out more of their shared office, and other inspiring posts over at Meg's blog, Nest.
(Images: Meg Allan Cole, Nest)
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I love Meg's show, she's the best
The crooked pictures on the wall are driving me nuts! I like the room, though :)
I'm amazed that two people can run two businesses from one computer and one desk.
i can barely stand to share a computer for checking email.
Must be two very patient people.
My records are too tall for the Expidit shelves. What am I doing wrong? Is there a different model somewhere?
I, too, want to adjust the frames! (virgo rising) They sound like amazing, busy people.
I guess most of the sewing done is of very small piecework? Because the second you have anything over a yard's worth of fabric, it's going to shove everything off the desk as it goes through the machine... or maybe it's used in reverse to how it's shown, and they've just posed it for the photograph? Just seems odd.
(Or maybe it's on my brain because I'm busy trying to come up with storage solutions for my father's 700sq-ft apt, including space for my step-mother's sewing area. Wah! Storage seems so easy until you realize just how much needs to fit in so little space...)
Needing picture frames level is a Virgo thing? I just used to work in a gallery. My goodness, straighten the grouping for the photo. I like the space, though.
gah!! Those frames! I can't get past that.
Plus I can't imagine 2 people working in that space at the same time.
I love the crooked frames! what I would love more is to have a job where I have to have my computer and my sewing machine next to each other within arm's reach!
Meg is so cool. I love her show, Enderby and blog.
Thanks for posting this project! And thank you for the compliments.
OCD commenters freaking out about crooked frames, I live above a subway. What a silly thing to focus on.