hey everybody my name is Sam welcome back to Green acre homestead today
I've got a little bit of different video for you guys it's an update or an
introduction for those who are new to my home office that I built in my workshop
which is practically a storage shed so I'm standing my workshop right now and
for those who don't know I actually have another YouTube channel about doing
stuff down in here it's called Sam craft and there's a link in the description
below but what I want to show you today is a
little sneak peek of my work from home setup and take you into the cave it
really does look like a cave doesn't it let's go
welcome to the office I'll give you a quick nickel tour here coming right in
you'll see the chair and this back here is a cabinet just basic storage of like
junk like electrical stuff actually you know what I'll show you
so there's what's in that cabinet here on the wall is a neat little abstract
wall art piece I made I got a video on that I'm a woodworking channel I wanted
something to be a cool little backdrop as I'm sitting at my desk which is about
this level I think it's cool to have something behind me whether or not you
videos in here like I'm doing now or just for general work web conferencing
video chats it's something to look at it's prettier than just a white wall
over here is the junk shelf there's a lot of stuff in there that to be honest
it's a lot of things that I need to sell probably along eBay or something or to
get rid of there's a couple of books and things I want to keep but largely it's
just like a shelf it collects stuff you'll see here I've got my keyboard I
recently dusted that off and started playing again a little bit I used to
play piano a lot growing up nothing really really good but most
tinkering around with it with the thoughts of perhaps doing some of my own
music for my videos we'll see I don't know if I have enough time to do all
that but we'll see and then here this is a basket it doesn't normally stay here
but that is the items that I've made for craft shows and stuff and I have yet to
pack it back up when we left the show it fit in the crate and that's the way I
wrote home all right spinning around as best as I
can and you'll get to see the actual hub work part of this room I have my laptop
up here on a cheap plywood shelf that I threw up there and it connects to the
screen the keyboard in the mouse and there you go it's a computer over to the
right of the computer is a little fan and then a 3d printer that is old that I
actually built as a kit many many many years ago when 3d printers were new and
expensive but now it kind of just sits here I really need to get rid of it
spinning around to the other part of the desk you'll see I've got my microphone
here on that little arm this is a Samson meteor microphone it's really good for
what microphones - oh it's really good and I like it so whatever it works it's
really handy having this on a boom arm I can move around to talk to people at
work or talk to friends or shoot audio voiceovers for videos or whatever and
then rounding it out is my office phone and then my spare computer that doesn't
really work so it needs to get out of here and just general stuff up here on
top of the shelf is kind of more of the hardware I've got my laptop got my main
switch a POV switch my VPN box for work and then some random bits and pieces
here's a lamp I made out of a jigsaw that's pretty cool project and then here
is another lamp I made out of an old bicycle pump I've made those for craft
shows we used to do about last year I believe it was kind of like a vintage
flea market style event and I made a couple of those sold one and have kept
the rest because I never sold the dimensions of the office are 8 feet wide
and 8 feet long so it's a square and the roof goes from 8 feet on this side up to
probably I don't know 10 feet on that side there's a full playlist of the
build videos and they'll be linked below if you want to go check it out as you
can see this is very basic very minimal I did this on a very low budget because
honestly I just needed a quiet space that had some power had a little bit of
insulation and that I could work from it's nothing fancy it's not gonna win
any major awards but I've really liked it so far as far as things I would
change about the actual office itself there's really not that much it's the
perfect size for exactly what I wanted and what I do down here
which is pretty much have a place with a desk place for a chair and then some
random storage spot things for random storage stuff in the summertime it gets
pretty warm in here about the middle of the day so be nice to have an
air-conditioner in the wintertime like right now the electric heater that I
have doesn't do very well but I also don't let it run overnight I'm only in
my office during the week and for about 4 hours at a time so it doesn't make
sense to run that heater all the time instead I usually just layer up like you
see here sure over shirt and vest along with the
electric heater and I get my it's not super comfortable when it's really
really cold but I also have the flexibility to work
from home inside the house and I've done that a few times although it's not as
quiet and peaceful if I have to estimate the total cost of this entire project
bill as far as turning this storage spot into a home office it's probably 100
dollars or less most of the cost was in the lights and then small bits like
hardware the door for the office was a clearance deal I think I paid five bucks
for it I showed the video where I got it and converted it from a bifold fold in
the middle closet door to just a single door for regular door uses I don't know
and then just you know it's it's really low cost in here and my desk is the
closet door out of our house because we didn't have room for the closet door to
open and close because it's a small place so I took it out and turn it into
a desk here so that was free okay I guess if you want to include the
hardware like the computer and the monitor and you know my chair I'm in it
definitely breaks that hundred-dollar barrier but as far as actual
construction of the room it's pretty low well if you guys have any other
questions or things I didn't cover let me know in the comments below I'd love
to give much information as I can about this but that's about all I can think of
off the top of my head one other thing for any of you who are local to Western
North Carolina angela and i will be speaking at a homestead conference
tomorrow saturday november 16th it's in Burnsville North Carolina I'll
leave a link in the description below if you want to come see us we're one of
four YouTube channels speaking about homestead DIY slash what we do how we do
type stuff we pretty relate back it's low cost event we'd love to see you
there and love to meet some of you guys otherwise appreciate watching be sure
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