My Setup
I work from home and am fortunate to share a lovely office space with my wife.
We have two Floyd dining tables against one wall that we use for desks. They are incredibly sturdy, simple, and spacious and make for great desks.
In between the desks is a Husky Industrial 52” 9-drawer Tool Chest, which is probably the greatest storage item I have ever used. It is fitted with casters, making moving it around very easy. (I kind of wish all our lower kitchen cabinets were replaced with these.)
I’ll list a few things below in multiple places for categorical reasons.
On the Desk
- LG 32” UltraFine 4k HDR10 Ergo Display. I am using an Ergotron LX Single Monitor Arm rather than the stand it came with.
- Elgato Key Light
- Sure SM7B Microphone mounted on an Elgato Wave Mic Arm
- Sony A7C Full Frame Camera with Sony FE 35mm F1.4 GM lens mounted with a ULANZI Camera Desk Mount Stand
- Audioengine HD3 speakers
- the awesome lamp I made twenty years ago by duo-tac’ing a strip of wax paper onto an industrial plastic tube and placing a trash-picked light inside — it still holds up!
- only Stillman & Birn Epsilon Series hardcover sketchbooks will do
Computing
- Apple M1 Mac mini
- CalDigit Thunderbolt Station 4 hub
- DIY External SSDs — using ACASIS 40gbps Enclosures, WD 1TB NVMe SSD Solid State drives, and 4’ Thunderbolt 4 Cables
- LaCie 2big RAID 8TB External Hard Drive
- Epson Perfection V600 Photo Scanner
- CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD UPS System
Audio Equipment
- Sure SM7B Microphone mounted on an Elgato Wave Mic Arm
- Cloud Microphones Cloudlifter
- Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 audio interface
- Audioengine HD3 speakers
- Sony MXD-D40 (under the desk)
The Space
We really fitted this space out starting in 2020 when we were here all_the_time. It’s now a great space to spend most of the day. Even Lexie, our lovely teenage pup, agrees.
The office gets great sunlight from two directions, is a cozy guest room when it needs to be, and somehow houses hundreds of books and magazines, including my wife’s nearly twenty-year collection of New Yorkers on the shelves I built to the right of the door.
That Husky rolling storage chest is also a great surface for kid magnet play.