- Everyone, today I want to show you around my home office,
which is hiding behind the store right here.
I've made a few changes since the last time
I made an office tour,
which was, I think about two years ago.
So, I'm looking forward to showing you what I've changed,
how I've optimized this space for the way
that I work and create.
In case you knew around here, then.
Hi, I'm Charli. I'm a Creative Director
for a remote tech company.
And then on the side,
I make a lot of design content, on YouTube, on podcasts,
blog, writing, things like that.
So, I spend a lot of time in this room and I have very
carefully curated the space to make it something that is
really inspiring for me and also really functional.
So, let's go in and let me show you around.
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So, this is my home office. I share it with the cats.
This is Nora.
(bell ringing)
They don't work though. They mostly just sleep.
So, let me take you around the room,
and I guess we'll start over here.
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This right here is side one and like half of side two,
I guess, of my gallery wall.
I am a huge fan of gallery walls, actually can tell.
I love working surrounded by lots of art.
And I've done a whole video about this wall and about like,
arranging the prints, how I pick them, etcetera.
So, I'll leave that link on a card.
You can go check that out.
But, this is what ends up being in the background
of most of my zoom calls, you know, working remotely.
I do a lot of them, also in the background of my streams.
It makes for, yeah, just like a nice background.
This plant too ends up being quite
the star of any background.
Ooh, you've got a new leaf.
This monster has grown quite a lot
since I go to all insert a picture here
of what it looked like when I first brought it home.
So, I'm very proud of this because I don't have
very green thumbs and I've managed
to not only let this plant survive, but also thrive.
Also on the side of the room is
my electric piano, which doesn't get a lot of love.
I'll be honest.
It's been well quite a while now,
since I played it last, but that's okay.
I decided that I don't have to feel guilty about not like,
using it all the time. It's there.
If I ever do want to sit down and like learn
a new song or something.
And also it just looks cool in the background too.
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- This right here is a new addition to the home office.
I love it a lot.
This one is one that the Instagram ads got me with.
This is a tilcor, so, it's like a shelving system,
where you configure it yourself.
I started off playing with a little configuration tool
and making something like very structured,
like neat and nodly.
And then I was like, you know what?
Let's embrace it. And let's go for something more creative.
So we've got these like offset draws
and cupboards and things.
And of course, I chose to get it in pink.
There's like a charging station here for my laptop and iPad.
And also my camera batteries.
In here is where I keep all of
my camera filming equipment.
I've got like a draw of travel stuff here,
and all the drawers, like have this nice soft clothes,
which is really cool.
Yes.
I love having lots of storage,
lots of places to keep all the things.
I did try and do like, a big clear out
when I moved, moved into the tilcor.
But yeah, I still have way too much.
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Moving around a bit more beside the tilcor,
we have this palm, which is on its last legs.
This is the spare bed,
which has honestly only had one guest,
ever stay on it.
Because,
yeah,
we've been in a pandemic for two years,
and we haven't had guests.
I wish that I had made the decision to get a, like,
pull out sofa bed instead of this like, stackable day bed.
Situation that we have here,
because I think I would've got more use out of it.
As a sofa, especially over the last two years as is.
I really don't sit on this at all. It is not like,
I don't know, I don't have a back to it.
You end up like lying on the art.
So, it's not super comfortable to, you know,
sit on and read or anything like that. But the cats like it.
Don't you Nora?
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- She's obsessed with this pendleton blanket.
Like, any way you put it,
she will sit on it.
Apart from apparently right now,
when I'm trying to demonstrate that point.
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As we come around more though, we have my desk,
and also this like, little kitty window seat,
which Seb absolutely loves.
He's always here, basking in the sunshine.
I move my desk so I can have more depth behind me.
I really like having my desk in this position, in the room.
I've got the window right here,
to like, look out of every now and then,
because my optometry says,
that's what I should do more,
so that my eyes don't keep getting worse.
(laughing)
- I am going to do a whole separate video
that'll be coming next week about my workstation.
So, everything that's on my desk,
all the technology that I use to do my work,
and to create that'll be coming next week.
But for now, I'll just say that this is a standing desk,
which I really love.
And this is a Herman Miller Mirror chair,
which is very comfortable.
So, my desk can do this.
(desk adjusting up)
- And, then I just keep the standing mat
over here, in the corner to put down on the floor.
(mat throwing)
- Because it makes more comfortable to stand
for long periods of time, you know,
I do think like especially having the desk in this space,
in the room and also seeing everything that I have on it.
The desktop itself is probably a little bit too small,
but, it's a really nice like butcher block oak top,
and I'm finding it hard to part with.
So, we're keeping it for now,
but I bet that'll be a change that I make in the future.
I don't know if you can also see behind me too,
if I move this chair out the way.
Down here, we have this cat,
scratching thing.
Something else, I love about this desk area
in particular though, is this rug that I have under it.
I think the design is really pretty,
the color is really pretty.
Nora likes to scratch it sometimes.
So, that's less cool.
But I think it looks nice in the space,
even though it is on like a weird angle.
I think it actually kind of makes
the desk being in this position work.
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- Just moved you over so you can see kind of more of
what's behind my desk, which I guess.
Wait, where shall I stand?
Let me stand here.
(laughing)
I have this light panel in the corner that I originally
bought for like, setting up whenever I film the video,
but these days it just lives permanently in that corner.
And, I have it connected to a,
wow, my mind completely blanked for a second
to a smart plug, which is attached
to this little Philips Hue button.
And, so when I click this, it turns off the light,
it turns off my webcam.
It also turns off the purple LED lights that I have
running in the background as well
that I forgot to mention before.
These were in addition that I made around
the base board.
Kind of around the time I started streaming because
it's like, a streamer thing to have LED colorful lights
in the background, but they do look really cool,
especially in when it gets darker in the evenings.
Also back here, I have this shelf
that holds a few storage boxes.
It also has my second monitor that I use
whenever I'm going to stream some gameplay
on my Nintendo switch.
I just bring that out and put it on the desk.
Again, this is another reason why I think I need
a bigger desktop in the future,
because I would love to have a second desktop
like, permanently mounted to my desk.
Maybe one that goes vertical. I don't know.
But, right now there is just no room for it.
So, the streaming stuff is all back there as is a,
I mean a WiFi thing.
I don't know the correct term for this.
It's not a router, but, it's like a, it gives me internet.
And then that big brick you see is a UPS,
uninterrupted power source.
And that's what I power my computer through.
There was a few times when we first moved in
that the power would like flicker
and my iMac would shut down,
which isn't great.
And so, yeah, this is just a little bit
of extra safety so that I make
sure I don't lose any work or, you know,
hurt any of my devices.
Also what you see on the ground back there,
is a litter box for the cats.
I told you, there's a lot of cats stuff in here.
And maybe that seems a bit weird to have in my office,
but this is kind of like, their room
that they can come in too whenever they,
I don't know if there's a stranger in the house and they
want to feel safe.
So, it's really important for cats
to have like a base camp
with all of their stuff.
The food isn't here,
they've got water, they've got their little box.
That is one of the sacrifices I made
in becoming a cat parent.
Hello.
And then on this side of my desk,
as you can see the light streaming in right now,
this is a door out to our terrace.
So, I have like, light coming in on both sides of my desk,
which is really, really nice.
It gets such good natural light in this room.
Too much right now< I had to like, lower the blind a bit.
We put this like, screen door thing on too,
so that I can have the door open
to the terrace without letting the cats out.
Because you're not allowed out there.
Are you?
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- So, that my friends is my home office.
This is where I spend a lot of my time.
And I hope you enjoyed getting a tour around
showing you how I have it set up,
and the way that I've optimized
for the work that I do.
And the things that I create.
Coming up in next week's video,
will be that tour of my workspace.
I will link it on a card once it's live.
So, if you're watching this, like after the fact,
but please do click subscribe,
and stick around to see that I will go
into detail of all of the tech that is on my desk.
Please give the video your thumbs up,
if you enjoy the tour.
And I'd love to hear in the comments.
If you could take one part of my office,
and like, have it in your own home office,
which part would you take?
And why ?
I'm very interested to hear your answers.
And, I wonder how many of you are going to say,
the gallery wall, because that's what I feel like,
I hear a lot.
(laughing)
- All right.
Thanks for watching.
And, I'll see you in the next one.
Bye.
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