HRH picked up my new desk from Kino Kid last night. It’s new to me but previously used and loved by her, being the writing desk she had in storage. It has a lovely pine board surface, chunky slightly curved legs, and an antique stain… I love it. For almost eight years now I’ve been using the Ikea clear-varnished pine desk I found in the As-Is and while it’s perfectly serviceable, Kino Kid was looking to find new homes for some furniture and I’d been wishing I could have something less functional and more aesthetically pleasing. So we helped each other out.
My office looks huge. My desk looks tiny and neat and focused. I need a narrower low shelf unit to house my printer and provide a bit more storage, but other than that I’m very happy. A smaller desk means less clutter, and a happier me.
It occurs to me, however, that the cats aren’t going to be so happy now that there’s less room in which to writhe as they attempt to distract me from working. In fact, there’s not a lot of cat-friendly room once the keyboard is put in place. This is not necessarily a bad thing…
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Cheers!
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http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/
It’s a blog started by Katharine Kerr and written by many genre authors on What It Means To Write Genre and related topics.
You have a one year old *and* your desk is tidy. I’m so jealous. How do you do it? :) My desk is usually covered with oodles of papers and calendars, pens, paper clips and all sorts of rick rack, including a coffee mug and Canadian Tire money (presently) as that stuff is just so useful to me LOL. I did however reorganize my bookshelf in my bedroom yesterday and gave it a good dusting.
You didn’t see the “before” state of things! The two main stacks of paper (one of which is bills) just got moved to a bookcase because there’s no room on the new desk for them. :)
This means, of course, that I have to get around to filing and sorting and stuff. Piles breed more piles, and if there’s no room for a stack of paper on my desk, then it can’t breed.
Like I said yesterday… Most people would get BIGGER desks to fit their stuff. This is a wise, wise move on your part, as long as yes, filing and finding room for stuff happens!