- Hey everyone, welcome to my home office.
If you're new to my channel, I'm Charli, I'm a web designer,
I've been working remote for a tech company
for about three years.
And about 8 months ago I moved from London to Spain,
so I've been working in this work space
for about 8 months now.
And I kept waiting for it to be finished to give a tour,
but then I kinda decided
that it's never really gonna be finished
and so I might as well just show you around now.
So, let me show you my workspace.
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If you saw my last home office tour, my one in London,
you would have seen the room was quite tiny.
This room as you can see, is nice and large.
So that's one of the perks of having moved to Spain.
I guess let's start with the most important part
of the room, the desk.
So I have my desk out here in the middle of the room.
When we first moved in,
I had it kind of like against the wall,
as I have with every other office I've had,
but then there was kind of just this like
huge empty space here which didn't make much sense.
And so I put it in the middle like this,
and it's really good because I work remote,
I'm on video calls for all of my meetings,
so I've got this lovely natural light
coming in through this window here
and then I also get to have this like wall
of gallery stuff behind me which I'll show you in a second.
So my desk is a standing desk, from Flexispot.
If I push this button here you'll see,
it can raise up to my standing height.
And then I just move my chair to the side
and get out this little like foam mat thing
that makes standing a lot more comfortable.
Before this I had a hand crank standing desk,
so this has been a lot nicer.
It's more expensive for sure,
but it means that I actually do move up and down more often
throughout the day because it's so much easier just to like,
hit the number right and then it's pre-set
to the heights that I wanna have it at.
So the frame is from Flexispot
but the desk top itself is a custom oak butcher block
that I had made.
I found this company that did like kitchen worktops,
where you can basically take a piece of wood
and get them to cut it to size.
So I got them to do things like round the corners
and then at the back here,
there is like a little hole for all my cords to go down.
So it's completely custom, the exact size
that I wanted to have it at.
And I just like the idea of having a wooden desktop,
better than the like plain MDF white
that I've always had in the past.
Best put this in here.
My chair is a Herman Miller Mirra chair
that I got second hand,
'cause these are very expensive brand new
so I wouldn't really recommend buying one brand new.
There's always offices like selling off used stock
when they change offices or whatever,
so I got this on eBay, I'm pretty sure.
And it's been a really great chair.
I would definitely highly recommend.
The computer that I work on is an iMac Pro
and then I have my external keyboard and track pad
with the little wrist rest.
I'm a big fan of the track pad rather than a mouse.
On my desk I, well honestly,
usually it's a lot messier than this.
I'll insert a clip of what it looks like on a regular day.
But I tidied up for this video.
I keep my iPad, my bullet journal near
because I use them pretty much every single day.
iPad for iPhoning, bullet journal for like to do lists
and notes and stuff like that.
And then this is a mini light box
that I got as conference swag.
It's one of the only pieces of conference swag
that I actually use.
And this keep going club is reference to a project
that my friend Isa runs where it's sort of about like,
keep going, keep creating, push through.
And I just find it really inspiring
so I have that sitting on my desk next to me.
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Over here next to my desk,
just so the desk wasn't like right up against the wall,
I put my drawers here.
And this is like miscellaneous office stuff.
I think we all have it like stationary,
and cords and things like that.
I dunno, somehow they just all got really full.
This giant thing is a UPS.
What does the U stand for?
- [Male] Uninterruptible.
Uninterruptible power supply,
because here in Spain the buildings are quite old
and we've found we kept having little power outages,
little power cuts which is obviously not good
when you're working on a desktop computer
because everything will just shut down.
So now my iMac is plugged into this
so when our power has like a little blip,
this takes over and it gives me time to like save everything
that I need and you know, keep working for a little bit
before I need to safely close the computer down
and wait for the power to come back on.
Keep a few candles here.
I don't light them all that often
but I love the way they look.
This is a little plaque that Nathan,
the CEO of our company, made for everyone.
It's like our company mission, and again,
I just like having it there, some decor.
So I have my little desk area all set on this rug
which is kind of like, like Turkish style I guess.
It's got like this like distressed look to it.
I really like it, I love the color,
I love that it gives the room a bit of a more cozy feel
and also it helps with the echo in here a little bit.
You can probably hear it, it's still quite echoey.
But this rug definitely helps a lot since I put this in.
Over here behind my desk I have my parlor palm,
which is rather large.
It's grown a lot since I got it.
I don't think I realized it would quite take up
this much floor space,
but it's nice to have a bit of greenery here in my office.
Also on this wall, this is my gallery wall,
where I keep all my prints.
I think it's really nice to have as a background
on video calls, when I'm filming a video,
but also I just love having art on my walls.
I've collected all these prints from artists that I love,
from small businesses and this is what I like to buy
when I'm traveling somewhere as a souvenir.
So like this one up here is the Chicago skyline
that I got when I did like a river tour of Chicago.
And then I got this one, these feathers, in Asheville,
when I was on a trip with some girlfriends.
So, yeah, it's like a nice wall of memories
and also inspiring art.
I've been thinking about expanding the gallery wall
onto this wall here as well,
'cause it's just like a big empty space.
And then I would be able to see it more
when I'm sitting at my desk.
I'm just like, I dunno, this is my workspace,
why not fill it with art if I want to,
'cause also I've got way more prints now
that are currently just sitting waiting for frames.
So, I dunno, let me know in the comments if you think
that sounds like a good idea.
Down here I also have my electric piano
which I usually keep covered up to keep the dust off it.
I don't play this all that often
but it is nice to have when I do feel like you know,
attempting to tinker around and play something.
I've been trying to relearn how to play it, so yeah,
this is just my little like fun corner of the office.
Let's move over to the other side.
So, we live in a three bedroom apartment,
which means we have like a bedroom obviously
and then both myself and my partner Mark,
both have an office.
Since mine is the bigger room,
we decided it would double as our guest room as well.
So we have this stackable bed here from Ikea.
So this expands out and becomes sort of like a,
I think it's like a king or queen sized bed.
But I also treat it as kind of like an office sofa.
I've thought about getting an actual pull out sofa
because it would look you know, nicer
and more normal I suppose, than having a bed in the room,
but it was really hard to find one
that's gonna be super comfortable.
We wanna be able to have our parents to stay
and my family lives in New Zealand,
so when they come they'll be coming for several weeks
at a time and so it's not nice to sleep on a mattress
that's that thick you know.
So, this does the job and according to our guests,
it is very comfortable.
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So I've got this lovely natural light coming in
through this window here,
and then also through these doors here
which lead out to our terrace.
So it's nice that I can just walk outside
whenever I feel like it.
Especially when the weather's nice
like it seems to be today.
This is the last like corner of my office
and this is where I do my podcasting from.
So I have these two Ikea Kallaz things
stacked on top of each other for a bit of storage,
'cause there's not much storage actually came
with our apartment and there's no like closet
in this room or anything.
And I put these doors and like shelf inserts on it
and I really like these leather door pulls.
And so in here I keep like my camera stuff
and just some like files and things.
And then there's a few like stuff on display
like my books arranged in rainbow order.
The few books that I do own.
I keep my podcasting mike on this arm here
because I wanna try and create like a little enclosed space
when I record to reduce that echo.
So usually what I do is open this door
and drape this pink blanket on top of it.
Sometimes put a pillow up here
and it makes like a little like slightly less echoey area.
This is a painting that I did the other weekend,
like doing like abstract stuff
and it kind of doubles as a bit of sound proofing,
echo reducing, whatever that word is, sound dampening.
It's a canvas with some towels like taped behind it.
So, it's both art and function, love it.
Yeah, so podcasting mike just sits on there
and I set my laptop up here whenever it's time to record.
Also up here we have my home pod
which is how I listen to music out loud in the office.
And this is another light box that I have.
Can you tell I really like light boxes.
This is like a reference to Dear Evan Hansen,
if you've seen or heard that then you'll know.
Then I guess the rest of the office
I have like my tripod that sits here for when I film videos.
Then up here I have my YouTube play button
sitting proudly alongside of this cabinet right here.
Then behind the skateboard
which I really wanna hang on the wall,
but like we can't drill into it
and I can't hang this up with command strips
like I have all my art, so I dunno,
just sits on the floor for now,
on this is where I keep my exercise equipment,
because this office also doubles as my home gym too.
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That is it for a tour of my home office.
I hope you enjoyed seeing it.
There'll be links to all of the stuff
that I can find mentioned down below in the description,
so check that out.
Got any questions let me know in the comments.
But, hope you enjoyed seeing it
and hope you have a good day.
Bye.
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