After re-doing my home office closet and documenting it for my blog and newsletter. And then writing another article and newsletter on the Buddha’s lesson on burdens we choose to carry, and connecting this teaching to the clutter we carry through our lives , I thought I had run our of ideas.
Just in time I came across a humorous video by Yuvi Zaldow that puts idealized minimalist home offices in perspective.
Yuvi Zalkow’s Home Office
I laughed at his “solution” to organizing, but wanted to reach into the video and help him improve his home office.
Yuvi Zalkow Home Office “Makeover’
(Documentary evidence I can’t draw with a computer mouse.)
4 Simple Steps to Improve Yuvi’s Home Office:
- Get the books off the desk so Yuvi has room for big projects of his own. Perhaps a couple of short book cases against the knee wall to store his books.
- Move his fantastic big desk/table out of the corner and closer to the window, natural light and the higher ceiling.
- Sit on the “right side” of the desk – looking into the room and out the window. Get an adjustable desk chair rather than the current straight back chair that can only make his bad back worse.
- Place a lamp on his desk for eye-friendly lighting.
What would you change about Yuvi Zalkow’s home office, without trying to make it “minimalist”?
“Get the books off the desk so Yuvi has room for big projects of his own. Perhaps a couple of short book cases against the knee wall to store his books.”
A good solution for the book is some wall mounted shelving. There seems to be plenty of space on those walls.
A good website/company that provides this is: http://www.woodenyoushelving.com
IKEA now has a metal shelving unit that is designed to be mounted on a sloping ceiling and other slanted walls. Ekby Jarpen/Ekby Riset IKEA item number 698.958.41 $18.99 in their 2012 catalogue.