New Office Reveal (Ooo, Ahhh)

Finally, I’ve spent long years writing at the kitchen table or at a desk crammed into the corner of my bedroom or in cafés or libraries. This means that I always have to pack up after every writing session and spend good long whiles looking for notes and trying to find things and put up with other noises and interruptions and everything. It’s not very conducive. Now, finally, I have a place that’s just mine, that I don’t need to keep tidy, where I keep everything to do with writing and I can just walk in, write and leave. Psychologically it’s so nice to just keep the kitchen for cooking and not worrying about oil splattering all over my notes, to leave the sitting room for TV and gaming and keep it as purely a relaxing place. It also means when I’m in my office I write, rather than messing around with other stuff. It’s great! Let the creation of masterpieces commence!

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The hub of the whole operation: desk, chair with decent back support, speakers for music, a bin for the disposal of rejected ideas and my fluffy blue thinking cap

Blackboard wall with Samuel Beckett Quote

The thing I was most excited about is my blackboard wall. Great for planning and brainstorming. Since I can’t reach the top, even on a chair, I put one of my favourite quotes on it rather than waste space (I had to use a ladder to write it). Handy DIY tip from someone who’s been there: don’t test your new blackboard wall by drawing lewd pictures, it might turn out that the paint you got is subpar and might be stuck there for all to see until you cover it with at least 4 more coats

My bookshelvesI greatly underestimated how many bookshelves I would need. The shelves in the rest of the house are overflowing with books and it didn’t take me long to fill these.

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Extra desk, which is useful for organising and separating writing stuff from work stuff, along with my stationary drawers, my exercise ball that I pretend to use, and the all important lava lamp and alcohol related motivational poster.

Before we began this was just a tiny junk room, that contained no less than 1 bed, 4 wardrobes, 2 coffee tables, 2 dressers, horrible mouldy yellow wallpaper and curtains and 1 concrete floor. Fixing it up was a big job, but totally worth it. Let the creation of heartbreaking works of staggering genius commence!