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Hey everyone, new here! My cable management needs some serious work but this is my newer station. Recently purchased Uplift desk since I secured a WFH job.
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Very clean! Welcome to EHW!
This is "Project Kevdog" Just came online tonight.
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What did you DO? o.0
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Stuff.
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Widescreen shot of mine with the Asus ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming Wifi and my MSI RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio (before my card died and we sent it in for rma)
Also with my custom GMMK v2 full size with Filco Sakura PBT keycaps.
Project kevdog looks insane. I'm baffled on that one as to what is going on lol
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I cleaned up the room a bit to get some photos of the office/gaming space as well as a few specific A/V components. There are still some peripherals and cables laying around connected to the old rig in the white Montech case next to the console table since I still haven't migrated all my old Steam game installations and saved games/records from it. Whenever I get that done, all that extra cable, peripheral, and case clutter will go away.
I have a perfectly sized floating mount, magnetic, tempered glass whiteboard on the wall above the sofa. It's exactly the width between the wall outlet plates. I knew I had to buy it despite being the most expensive tempered glass whiteboard available for sale. I also got a couple of roller storage bins to put under the sofa for convenience and decluttering. The whiteboard and sofa were my first two big purchases for this room in March 2021 when I started planning my home office in the midst of the pandemic.
The colors in the room were very intentional once I realized I could pull it off. For the fabrics, it started with the sofa. Then came the window curtains on the other side of the room. I later found the stools next to the desk with a similarly matching fabric on Overstock, and the bottom shelf on those was a huge selling point too. When it came to finding some organizers for the console table shelf, when I saw those navy velvet baskets with the rope handles, there was no way I wasn't going to buy them. After that came the Steelcase Leap office chair which I've mentioned in other threads. Even that door stopper is a heavy ball wound with navy-colored rope, not to be confused for the actual mini basketball that's beside the Montech case.
I've had this desk since 2003. It's not that great ergonomically nor very noteworthy since it's an inexpensive Bush furniture desk from one of the big box office stores, but it's sufficiently sturdy. I've been generally careful with it and it's survived two moves. it worked out well for this room because of the two attic access doors that would have been very annoying to position furniture around otherwise. The golden oak color led me to picking out the industrial and vaguely steampunk-styled ceiling fan, the console table, and also played a factor in getting the bamboo chair mat recently over getting another polycarbonate chair mat that would crack in another 3-5 years.
An unintended bonus of the the bamboo mat is that it also goes well with the basketball hoop. They're nowhere near each other in the room and I can't really shoot the ball from anywhere on the mat other than the front corner because of the ceiling fan, but it ties the room together better than the Dude's rug.
Above are all the black glass and piano black surfaces for the speakers, speaker stands, and subwoofer. The microfiber cloth is there so my footprints aren't all over the top of the subwoofer since I also use it as a footrest. My monitor stand's base is also black glass, which I'll go over below.
The monitor stand is from my old Dell 2707WFP monitor years ago. I had to assemble a custom mount to adapt it to the 38" LG UltraGear monitor and set the bottom edge of the monitor to be perfectly aligned with the bottom edge of the 55" Samsung QN85A TV. I used long M4 screws, washers, and spacers to attach the monitor to slotted mending plates to allow for extra vertical height adjustment beyond the monitor arm's range, then used M4 bolts, nuts, and spacers to attach the mending plates to the cantilevered arm.
The monitor arm base and sides being silver/chrome do a really nice job of reflecting the ARGB light ring from the back of the UltraGear monitor, adding to the ambient light effect. The glass stand is such a beautiful showpiece that, even beyond keeping it to match the aesthetic I wanted, I wouldn't have discarded it regardless after the 2707WFP became obsolete. It's more than a part of the monitor. It's closer to a piece of A/V furniture.
Dell was on something back in 2007-08 putting this much effort into the monitor presentation for the 2707WFP and 3008WFP considering that these days, you often get a flimsy plastic stand with no panning and limited tilt and vertical adjustments. This stand even has a user-adjustable tensioner screw to tweak the arm's tension for raising/lowering the display.
The wall mount for the TV is a dual-arm mount with a 36" max wall extension, which was one of the longest I found since many of them stopped at 19-20". This unit had the most versatile mounting options among all the mounts I looked at, and the backplate hole spacing gave me some offset options across two wall studs. I then mounted the TV onto it offset a bit more so the TV would be horizontally centered on the wall with the arms collapsed. For reference, the wire concealer is dead center along the wall.
These days, I usually keep the mount extended to use the TV as a second monitor, but it goes against the wall to watch movies, play controller-based games, or access the upper attic door.
This is perhaps my favorite original decorating idea. When the house was built, I had the builder install a cabinet knob for the attic door handle because I didn't have any other ideas back then. After all, who would? Nobody thinks about this stuff. I've seen the string and plastic pull handle that almost everyone has (and doesn't give a second thought about), and I've seen an eye hook on the door that used a wooden table/chair leg with a stainless hook screwed in as a pull handle.
I wanted to do something more creative. As a nod to being a casual aviation enthusiast, this is a NAS1756-12 spec coated nylon canvas Remove Before Flight streamer attached to a carabiner attached to a cabinet pull ring on the door.
At a later date after my upstairs Ethernet project is done, I'll probably make another post about some of the considerations for wiring up this room as well as show the fourth wall.
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DOOM 2016 or DOOM Eternal theme (could also be Fire Strike):
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Got some new posters, to replace the old Intel ones I gave to Avacado.
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EHW desk mat, I love it.
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