The working from home thread: tips and advice

OK, 3 Ikea Flysta shelving units ordered to make a 6x4 cube wall in the home office, that should free up space on the desk and tidy a load of crap away. Can also move a load of books from the bottom of a bookcase elsewhere and make space there.

(Wanted the Flysta as they're not as deep as the Kallax and the room is only 194cm wide so with the 80cm deep desk there's only 114cm to play with. With ~40cm of Kallax sticking out it doesn't leave much space for my fat gut and my chair)

Also got a 2x2 Kallax to put the printer and shredder on. Printer is currently on top of an old bedside table and the shredder is on the floor. Can now put the contents of the bedside table (printer paper, cartridges, writable CDs/DVDs, etc) in the Kallax cubes, and the bedside table can go to local freecycle[1]). The NAS can go in one of the cubes too to get it off the desk.

November I'll look at getting one of those Flexispot EC1 electric sit/stand desk frames and move the current Ikea Bekant desk top onto it, or I may just go for a smaller desk top, will see how it goes once I get the desk mostly clear of crap. Probably easier to sell on the current Ikea desk as a whole thing rather than just the base.

Then if I see the 43" 4K monitor going cheap again (missed it last time it was £430, it's back up to £530) to replace the dual 23" 1920x1080 monitor setup. But I think the moneygun.gif would have mostly run out by then.

1. The bin area in the estate opposite. Carried an old chest of drawers over there a few minutes ago and we hadn't even put it down before one resident asked if it was going spare.