Office Décor
 

In stark contrast to the "Why I hate my job thread".....


After a long stint as a lone wolf consultant I've been lured into a semi-full time position at a posh establishment with my own windowed office.

Given the time I'll be spending there I think it's worth putting some effort into swanking the place up a bit. As the IT guy of course the inclanation is to go all trekish with chrome and hard lines but I'm thinking of bucking the trend (with one exception) and going with an "antiuqities" theme. I have a really nice replica of the rosetta stone to start with but I need some more ideas. Should I stick with with Ancient Egypt or perhaps try for a very subtile Indiana Jones theme? Of course I'll have to find a way to weave in a hidden Mickey or two...

Trend bucker ;)

Go British Raj - then you can fill your space with classic furniture with odd antiquities. You'll certainly need an animal skin of some sort.

I've got this mental picture of a mental picture Anne Rice created for me in "The Vampire Lestat". There was a tobm where Marius kept the ancient Egyptian vampires that always sounded so very pretty and peaceful.

If you can't do that, just buy a giant sarcoghagus to store your office supplies in. ;)

Well, what do you expect at 1:30 am?

I was talking about this with a coworker not too long ago. We seemed to agree that whatever we put on our office walls made a huge statement about us. So, if I put up a picture of Shakespeare, then I'm a Shakespeare worshipper. If I put up a picture of Allen Ginsberg, I'm a beatnik. If I put up a picture of a flower, I'm boring. If I put up Disney-related anything, I'm a nerd and/or immediately identified as a non-native Floridian. If I don't put anything up, then I work at the place I work, and I'm too busy working to bother with decorating my office.

In reality, I'm just too lazy to care. I've been in my apartment for over 2 years. I just last month put pictures over my couch. I just earlier this summer bought a desk to put my computer on. (I still use a chair from my kitchen table at the desk.) I have not yet purchased a bedspread for my bed (doesn't get cold enough to need it).

So, tell me why I should decorate my office? ;)

But Moonliner--antiques are very cool. I just have random old office furniture.

Drat Drat Drat buggers!

Since I'm kinda new to the place I decided to take a walkabout today while nobody else was here and see what type of style the other office have. Just my stinking luck, the office RIGHT next to mine, that happens to belong to the overall top dog, is done up with an Egyptian theme. :mad:

So I guess I'll leave the Rosetta stone etc.. at home for now and go a different route. I thought about a series of historic document reproductions but they look bland on the wall. Sports ain't really my thing, Animals are not the way, guess I'm back to square one. Perhaps I'll go with maps...

But no matter what I do, these look way cool!

So why decorate at all? Several reasons:

1. I have to be here 8-hours a day. I might as well make the best of it.
2. Reputation - Co-workers judge you in part by your office. Is it a cubie, windowless, small, big etc? I negotiated a nice office during the hiring phase and now I really want to keep up the I'm not staff I'm management vibe. I need all the help I can get since I still have to occasionally crawl under peoples desks to install a PC or printer...

I had no clue people were going with actual themeing when decorating offices.

If I hadn't just paid a decent penny to frame a large reprint from my Bora Bora vacation for my office (which I haven't seen for a month :( ) I'd be VERY tempted to do have that company print and frame it, Moonliner.

Pick a city you love and go with it. The big Euro cities (and countryside) have plenty of iconography to choose from. I have a Parisean bathroom. But, Rome, Athens, Stonehenge, London, all have colors, icons, etc you could draw from.

Hummm, if I picked LA I could perhaps sneak in a satellite view to include a certain bermed park... :)