OFFICE SPACE.

Designing a desk cabinet :

Originally we wanted to have a cantilevered desk - similar to the design of Nigel Parish.

BUT...a cantilevered desk was a little too complicated. So that didn't happen. 
Instead, something like this is happening :

We built it out of 3/4" MDF, leaving a cut-out for the window we salvaged from Building REsources. Added a recessed light to match the rest. Since the depth of the cabinet is quite deep, and I hate dead and/or difficult space, we cut out some niches on the side for books. Everything else will be hidden inside the cabinet. Clutterfree livin'!

The sides of the cut-out we covered in cedar, so it reflects the cedar wall on the opposite wall & ties the room together. We Painted it in Benjamin Moore's "Simply White" [oil, not latex, which I'm not sure was such a good call, but we shall see].

Still need to bondo the screw holes and add another filler piece. 

Oh yeah, and then there's the desk, which fits right into the negative space under the drawers. It's on lockable castors, which are hidden. We were going to build a custom chair as well - like shown in the sketch; this way when everything's put together, it will just look like one shiny, glossy white wall with the cedar/window cut-out...but we're tired. 

The idea of the desk cabinet, is to hold all our stuff, printers, scanners, laptops, external HD's, EVERYTHING! I'm going to use the inside of the cabinet doors for the small stendig calendar, cork boards, and the grundtal magnetic spice rack with containers from ikea for paper clips, stamps etc. When we work from home, we'll have a proper home office, and when it's not in use, we can stow everything away, including the desk. Out of sight, out of mind!


STORAGE RULES!

UPPER RIGHT CABINET :  Mail slots to hold laptops, kindle & future iPads. Above is a deep shelf with  pull-out pantry thingy we cut down from IKEA. And a shallower shelf on top.

LOWER RIGHT CABINET : 2 shelves. First uses an IKEA plastic pull-out for mini shredder. Second uses same pull-out with 2 bins -> trash & recycling. [Love finding hidden places for trash bins].

UPPER LEFT CABINET :  Will house our printer on bottom shelf on IKEA kitchen pantry pull-out. Above is drawer for paper etc., Second shelf will include a mounted lockable cabinet (not pictured) and another shelf to hold file binders.

LOWER LEFT CABINET : Two shelves with IKEA kitchen pantry pull-outs re-configured to hold horizontal hanging files.

DRAWERS : There are two drawers in the middle. And two more cabinets at the very top. That's where all the blueprints of the house will fit in nicely. We couldn't make 2 big ones on top, so the middle piece is a filler, but no dead space!


Here's how it came together :
Diagonal wall of bathroom on far right. Sink next to it. We had to build a wall to the left of the sink for the heating radiator, so we decided to use that NOOK by the window on far left for our desk cabinet project.

Our window with no view. We will add a Flora Grubb vertical living wall on the fence
outside, so we get some green.   

How much is that doggie in the window? (woof! woof!). The one with the waggley tail How much is that doggie in the window? (woof! woof!). I do hope that doggie's for sale

And now for the finale.... 
 [almost]