How do you have your office set up?

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Okay, I admit it… my office is an absolute mess. Since my wife and I have lived together, I have always dedicated a room as an office in the house. I help friends and do some other repair work so I often need a place to work. Since we have had our second child, my office became the place for the guest bed to go. We had a guest room before that, now it’s an office with a guest. Or is it a guest room with a lot of junk in it? Not sure.

So my dilemma is how to maximize my space. I have half, if not less room than I used to and it seems that I end up with parts everywhere. The bed is all too convenient to put something on for “just a moment” while I do something. Something inevitably takes a long time and whatever was left there stays there.

Some of my problem is the fact that I have old furniture in the room that used to work when it was a dedicated office. I used to also host my own web space, run my own domain with a dedicated domain controller and run a computer based router instead of a Linksys router. Most of that was in a rack in the corner and all it holds now is the router and a laser printer.

I think it’s time for some spring cleaning. Going to throw out some of the old parts that are obsolete and get rid of the rack. Then maybe I can build myself a test bench to work on computers and store some stuff under it.

I am curious though; how do you set up your office? Is there something you couldn’t live without? Maybe I can steal your ideas