As previously noted, our new apartment has two bedrooms, one of which I use as an office right now. We're going to turn it into a office for the both of us, as well as a guest room, because the second bedroom also has a bathroom attached to it, making it perfect for our guests to have a little privacy.
Here is the floorplan of what that room looks like now.
Basically, during the main point of the year, the desk is the focal point. But once we unleash the sleeper sofa, it becomes a functional guest room, complete with sitting area!
Each of our desks measures 73 inches long, and 24 inches wide, which is perfect for a large desk area to hold a lot of items. We'd also been discussing storage solutions, and though the wooden boxes at Target are fairly priced, we decided that if we are going to build a desk, we might as well build the storage as well. To conserve on much needed space, it's being built as part of the desk unit. A really poorly drawn image of our idea is below!
Here is the floorplan of what that room looks like now.
As you can see, there are a number of ill placed doors and windows in this room, and overall, it's not a huge room. When thinking about the function of the room, while we feel like we might have guests overnight 2-3 times per year, we have to use it as an office all of the time. So the question became, how do we create an amazing desk, that has room for all Si's computer items, as well as all my craft stuff, and still leaves room for me to function at work?
Basically, we decide that the best way to do that was to build a desk along the left hand wall, and then basically seal off the storage closet, at the same time adding a sleeper sofa and some club chairs. The first stage of course was to figure out what it would look like before we committed. I used floorplanner.com to map out our walls and doors (all done to scale!!!), and then they also gave me the ability to add furniture (still a little clunky, but you can measure your furniture and also make it to scale). Here is our finished idea:
Each of our desks measures 73 inches long, and 24 inches wide, which is perfect for a large desk area to hold a lot of items. We'd also been discussing storage solutions, and though the wooden boxes at Target are fairly priced, we decided that if we are going to build a desk, we might as well build the storage as well. To conserve on much needed space, it's being built as part of the desk unit. A really poorly drawn image of our idea is below!
I'll update this weekend as we complete the project, but it's always helpful to have a beginning post for a project this size. We're very excited about making this happen!
[Update - Sunday, June 12, 2011 - We finished it! Check out part 2 here, and part 3 here!
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