Jennifer Brick: I've gotten so many questions
about my work from home setup, especially after I
posted my video about my work from home
essentials. So in today's video, I'm going to give
you a tour of my home office, I'm going to talk to
you about my work from home basics, my setup, my
desk, and all of that stuff that helps me be
successful when I work from home and how to stay
productive when working from home. And let's just
face that when you're working from home, it you
need to be comfortable, and you need to be
productive. And everything that I have to show you
is really optimized towards those two things. So
if you are ready to see my home office tour, tap
that like button, and let's jump right into it.
One thing that you'll notice probably really
quickly is that I have a whole blank wall. And
that is because I actually intend to set up
another filming wall, I just haven't really
finalized what I want that to be yet. This isn't
the biggest space. So I am kind of constrained in
the amount of furniture and stuff that I can have
in this room. But I've got planets here. So if you
have any ideas or inspiration for me, drop them in
the comments down below. Let's start with the
first and most obvious thing that you need in your
home office. And that is a desk. No, I really like
my desk. It's not an expensive desk, but it's a
desk that works really well for me. And that is
because it is on wheels. Because I plan to
eventually set up a filming section on this out of
my office, I wanted something that would move. And
it is really easy to move. We actually had a flood
here last week, and I needed to move it into dry
land at the front of the house. And it was really
superduper Easy peasy. So I really like that. One
thing I did want to get a close up on to mention
to you guys as well is that this is actually a
plain white desk and I got some like contact
sticker or whatever to glue on artistic on top of
it rather, I really like it, but I didn't trim it
very well. So it doesn't look I mean from far
away, it looks great. I'm sure if you know what
you're doing, and you can put it on straight. That
is awesome. You know, overall, I actually like the
look of it. The next obvious thing in my home
office setup is my chair. Now I know that most
people tend to go for the highly ergonomic, really
expensive chair. I wanted one that looked nice,
because I mean it's not fully on camera ever. But
it does kind of show up a little bit. And I
thought that filming was eight ergonomic chair
would just look really weird, and I didn't want to
share with my office. So I got this one. One thing
I love about it is I think that it has memory
foam, it is really comfortable. It's more like a
lounge chair. So it's comfortable. I honestly tend
to get cozy when I'm working. So like I have my
legs up on the chair with me and stuff like that.
I personally like working from this, I tend not to
use the back of the chair, I tend to just sit up
straight as much as possible anyway. So the whole
ergonomic thing doesn't really bother me. But I
would just get like a pillow or something if it
did or if I felt like I needed a little bit more
support. And actually I'm going to talk to you
about not just my my chair but something else on I
got recently, I got one of these foot rests things
I know that like most office buildings have them.
I hadn't got one for myself, I love having my feet
up I just mentioned I like to have my feet on my
chair. That said working with my feet up on my
chair isn't probably the best thing in terms of
posture, and stuff like that. And something that
I've wanted for a really long time, which is one
of those foot stand things, you know, like most
office buildings have them. But I feel like we
don't always get them for our home office. But
this company was nice enough to reach out and
offer to send me one and it is one of my favorite
things in my office right now. So it is really
comfortable. It is made of memory foam, which
makes me absolutely obsessed with it, you can take
it apart and have it at different levels, it's
gonna be really loud for a second hold on. I
needed two shots. So you could actually have two
different pieces. I have been working with it
since they send it to me, not a sponsored video,
they just sent it to me for consideration for this
video, but I really like it. So I thought that I
would tell you guys about it. And of course
everything that I talked about is going to be
linked down below plus get to my actual desk
setup. So obviously with filming and editing, I
spend a lot of time at my desk and there's just a
few tools that we need. Now obviously I have my
laptop. I am not an apple person. Like I feel like
the whole world is at this point. But I'm a
Windows girl. So I have my HP laptop. It's a
Spectre I really really like this one. It's thin,
it's lightweight, and it gets the job done
especially with processing. I mentioned this in my
work from home essentials video underneath it is
my laptop prop stand thing whatever it's called.
I'm gonna put that down because I feel like I'm
going to drop it I don't I don't want to smash my
laptop. But yeah, so this actually helps like if I
adjust this but you can see it gets it up to like
a more level size with my actual monitor and I do
have a widescreen monitor. This one is an Acer I
have a different model upstairs. I really like
this one I find
that the color accuracy is really good on it. Or
esus sorry, I don't even know the brand names that
I'm working with. Because I mean the this monitor
I've had for quite some time. Especially for
things like video editing, where I want to be able
to zoom in and get close and do detailed stuff.
It's really helpful. But also when I'm having
meetings, I find that having two monitors isn't
essential, so that I can have, you know, the zoom
on one screen. And then everything I need on the
other screen or, let's face it, in some meetings,
multitasking stuff that you need to have no, I
have as well obviously a keyboard, I have a
separate one for my laptop, I actually like typing
on this thing high up. But this is obviously just
a little bit easier to work with. And then it has
a numerical pad. One thing that I was really
insistent on for my keyboard was that it was a
really thin and light because my upstairs office,
which I don't use very often anymore, it has a
drawer, but the drawer had a lot of stuff on it.
So I wanted to have a keyboard that would just
like easily go in and it was nice and light. So
this one is in our tack. I don't let's see. Can I
show you can I show you it isn't all films and B
roll. I'm not like a good product YouTuber, like,
I am so jealous of the beauty gurus who know how
to do this stuff. Anyways, I will do some B roll
and overlay it so that you can see what it
actually looks like. For my mouse, I have just
like a wireless mouse what is I don't even know
the brand on this one. It looks jacked at this
point. But it works well. And it's one of the
Bluetooth connectivities so that I don't have to
take up one of the ports on my laptop, because
that's annoying. I also do you have this, like the
wrist stand, I thought I find especially when I'm
doing editing work on for videos or for images. Or
if I'm just actually doing a lot of writing and
messing around edit and stuff like that, that my
risk gets really sore. So this, again, has memory
foam, I know there's like a theme to my office,
everything has to have memory foam when it can, it
just makes life better. But I really recommend if
you're not using one of these, you can get like
jelly ones are super cheap. But it makes a really
big difference. I personally have shoulder
problems from softball when I was younger. And so
it helps keep things in better alignment so that I
don't end up in pain. The other thing is
underneath it all I have my desk mat. Um, I think
if I had like a wood desk, I wouldn't necessarily
have this. But I have a metal desk and it's kind
of cold. And I find that it just like helps my
mouse run better without having a mouse pad. And
it's, you know, just nice to know that I don't
have to put like hot beverages and stuff onto the
actual metal surface with the sticker because I'm
afraid it's gonna bubble. I do have a coaster just
in case. What else do I have? What else do I have,
I have my headphones. These are some cheap
headphones that I have don't even know where
they're from. Definitely from Amazon. And let's
just face it, they're from Amazon, I have not been
using noise cancelling headphones, because my kids
are in virtual school for half the week. So when
they are in virtual school, I need to hear them.
And especially if they're like, you know, just
like hanging out in the front end of our office
area in our house. And out of my office, I need to
be able to like keep tabs on them. But if I still
need to be listening to something, I actually need
the noise to come through. That makes sense. Now
my Kindle is here, just because it's charging and
I have it plugged into let's actually see let's
let's get this thing unplugged and off. I'll show
you I'll show it to you if I can. There's just so
many plugs. I don't know. I don't know. So one of
the things because my laptop moves with me is I
wanted to have just a port where multiple things
can go in. So I have like my keyboard plugged in.
But this takes you know, my st is hard because
again filming. I can plug in my computer to my
monitor and all of that kind of stuff. So this one
is very handy. It's an anchor one. Let's see. Can
I do it? Can I do it? No. That YouTube? Oh,
finally, finally is going to work. Hello? No. I
don't know. Maybe I'll add to that. Maybe I'll
leave it in the video. I don't know. But yeah, so
I liked this one, I will do B roll shots again
because I can't show you anything. Now the other
thing that I like to keep handy especially now
that we're getting into winter months, we're
washing our hands way too much is I do keep just
some like hand cream because I'm one of those
people. My hands are really dry from Washington
all the time and it drives me a little bit crazy.
And then I also keep just like a caudalie face
spray. I got this like in a random What are you
gonna call it pharmacy in Paris last time I was
there. So it also just kind of reminds me of back
in the day when we were able to travel. But that's
not all of my office. Now the rest of this isn't
necessarily something that you have to have. But
I'm going to show you what else I have in my
office just to kind of keep it nice to set
the stage and actually there's a couple of things
that I use on a day to day basis. So let's head
over to my bookcase. So I know not everyone is
necessarily worried about staging for video shoots
are, you know their zoom background by I do think
it's handy if you do have an actual office space
to have a bookcase to keep things. So I have just
like one of the IKEA ones that I feel like
everyone has. I've owned this in multiple
departments and multiple cities over the course of
my life, but it works and it was inexpensive and
it was somewhat easy to assemble. So I got that
one because it does the trick. Now down below. Can
you see it in the shot here, let me actually just
move this so you guys can see it. I do have
storage boxes down there. And I keep like a whole
bunch of random stuff. So this one has actually
like gym clothes because I have my spinning bike.
This one has microphone equipment than I have
camera equipment. And then I think just random
cords. And I have the boxes because I hate seeing
stuff. You'll notice that I don't even have a lot
of stuff in these cubbies yet. I would like to get
some decorations for it, but I just haven't gotten
there yet. And because you can't see it in a
video. It just I didn't feel like it really made a
huge difference. Now this one, I do have some of
my art I meant to put it on the wall I meant to
again stage another filming area. So when I got
that you guys will see those paintings in my
videos. Then I keep my journals, and my notepads.
And most importantly, my planner, my planner is
something that I use on a day to day basis. I have
used in consult planners for the last three years
now, I believe three years and I have a video
plans where I talk to you more about my success
planning habits. So if you are interested in that,
check my channel subscribe. So you know that when
it comes out, I keep a couple of pens handy. And
then over yonder. For someone who reads a lie, I
have a surprisingly small book collection because
I basically only read on Kindle. But I have a
couple of books here. And you can actually see it
in my shot. But we'll talk about him. He says the
decoration but he's my my talking stick. I like to
keep him on my actual desk. But he doesn't really
fit on my desk right now. And it's a seek first to
understand then be understood. It's from when I
did a Stephen Covey seven, seven principles of
Highly Effective People training and it's just a
good reminder, actually, I'll put him here, he can
have his own spot. What else I have my big
microphone here, this is actually functional, but
it serves as a decoration. When I'm not actually
using it, I have my sign I actually really liked
the sign and it was really inexpensive. So if you
do want to just have like inspirational messages
to yourself, those are really cheap, and you can
get them in Amazon. And then I have just some
decorations and then a couple of life plans and a
couple of not like plants. So let me just do that.
Um, I have become a crazy plant person. I watched
puncher you know, all the time when I watched
YouTube. So I have a fake plant. I have a Cz
plant. I have a Chinese evergreen that I'm trying
in here. As you can tell, because I am
subterranean basement, I don't really get natural
light. So it's very hard for me to have live
plants. And then I have just like a little flower
decoration there. And then I have a candle and
another painting. So that my friends is my office
tour. You have seen it all you know my home office
setup. I would love to hear from you. What do you
have that you absolutely love that maybe I don't
have yet? Or do you have a desk or a chair that
you really love? Are you an ergonomic person? Do
you love memory foam the same way I do? Let me
know in the comments down below. Now if you
haven't already, I also have a few other work from
home essentials that I didn't mention in this home
office setup tour. So go and check out this video
right now and I'm going to walk you through a
couple of other things that I have in my office or
around my office that helped me stay productive
while I'm working from home. If this video helped
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always, thank you so much for watching. I will see
you in the next video. Bye for now.