La Oficina - interior design for misfit roommates

In our house, there is only one room that we can use as an office/studio. It's a nice room facing a quiet street and there is a magificent rose bush just outside the window. Our prestigious name for these 12 square meters is "La Oficina" (or Campo de Guerra, depending on cleaning status), and in here, we have managed to squeeze in one company (mine) my husband's computer gadgets, a kind-of-workshop and a mobile photo studio.

The biggest challenge here is that me and my husband have to share this work space and that we are so different you ask yourself what we are doing on the same address. S is into IT (I have promised never to call him a nerd) and he would love to be confined into that room with blinds down, nonstop smoking, heavy metal in headphones and surrounded by all his IT/technical gear and Coke bottles, and preferably the walls would be painted black. (How on earth did we hook up - well, that's another story for another long post!)

My husband calls me a "Swedish Child of Nature", and I guess that's a good description, and I love fresh air, open windows, animals, nature, silence and generous space. You may sense conflict here and you are absolutely right.

So, how do you solve this roomateship between two persons that do not agree on one single thing? Easy - you build a cubicle!

I had this idea when we last rearranged the furniture, making new marks in the (ex) lovely wooden floor. I gently suggested that we could build in S's desk behind three book cases, so that he could have his own dark little cage. To my big surprise, he was very excited and he ran off to IKEA to buy some new BILLY book cases.

That evening, we finished the new office arrangement and an unexpected bonus was all the free space we had by not trippning over my book-keeping and tools that were previously spread on the floor.

This is how it turned out - no big deal, but so much better than the disaser before!

S workplace behind the book cases

Cheers,

Anna