Mancave Makeover
My room earlier this year (and way earlier)
The Context
Been a while since I last posted, today I'm gonna share some improvements I did for my personal project to do a complete makeover of my room and turn it into a mancave of sorts. All these years I just stood by and neglected to organize my workstation as stuff kept piling up, until one day some time last year, I realized I needed to do some general cleaning.
The Mess
From a simple desk receiving upgrades over the years, extra monitors, a surround sound system, prior video cards for mining on the side, for some reason I just got used to my workstation looking the same. As long as it's still working and my rig is well maintained, I didn't seem to care much about cleaning the whole area. But then, there was a time when I just had to neglect cleaning and organizing stuff due to busy working days, then came a time where some friends just really had to hang out at my place for a week, their side-comments started echoing for days - "man your room needs a makeover".
Grotesque pictures of scrap hardware and old desktops/consoles laying around, spaghetti wiring, large dustballs and etc. omitted
Yeah I know it's such a mess
The Plan
Rough sketch of what it should look like in the near future
I had initially drafted my vision of what my battlestation would look like, and came to a temporary layout as seen above. Since my table lacked in length, I had to go do some rounds at the home depot to procure a lot of DIY materials, specially a well-measured MDF (medium density fiberboard), and to gain some insights for interior design as well. Sadly I was too busy doing all these DIY stuff that I didn't have them documented apart from spray-painting these beams where the monitors will be mounted. The design might change in the near future though so stay tuned!
The Work In Progress
Lights on
It's still a work in progress but I believe a lot has improvement from before. My workspace gained a lot of space, and it isn't too cramped up unlike before. The wiring's not yet smoothed out since I still have to drill holes and plot mounting points, but I'm happy that the backside's much cleaner now. I still have a lot of plans for the lazy me - where to put the mini-fridge, speaker mounts and etc.
There's still way too much more to be done, but still, one day at a time!
Lights out!
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