Can someone help me design my room?
Following on from the revelation that Ikea are binning their Expedit line, I decided it was high time I finally sorted out my Office / DJ room. With that in mind, I am lost in how I can design / arrange it for maximum impact. So I ask if there is anyone on here who might be willing to offer up some suggestions? Ideally I'll be going for bright white walls, so would like nice dark furnishings. Looking at Ikea, and their Expedit line, I'd be inclined to go for the Black / Brown colour option. With that being said, it certainly doesn't HAVE to be Ikea furniture, however, the 5 x 5 Expedit units do look like the perfect solution for mass vinyl storage (I have in the region of ~3000 records, plus many hundreds CD's).
Ideally I would like 2 of the 5x5 Expedit units in here somewhere, as that would seem to be enough to cover my storage needs... But I can always add other storage units if they serve dual purposes.
Anyway, I will be ripping everything out of the room, and starting afresh. It'll get a fresh lick of paint, undecided about new carpet or whatever, but it it'll basically be a blank canvas. I would, ideally, like to keep the spend under around £500. The closer to £400 the better really, but I don't want to do this again, so if it goes over-budget slightly, I can live with that. The 2 5x5 Expedits should keep me sorted for actual storage space, as any spare slots I can fill with drawers or something. Suggestions for funky lighting are also welcome.
So what is to go into the room? Well, I have my pair of 1210's and DB4 with the Reloop contour controller. I would like the space to expand to CDJ's at some point too, but I don't mind if they are to be wall mounted or something to keep things relatively compact. To go with that is a small form desktop PC, with a single monitor just now, but I have multiple monitors I can use, so I could go double monitor on the DJ set-up for ease of use. I then have a NAD Stereo amplifier, and a couple bookshelf speakers to go with this. I'm not sure what speakers yet though, as I have a pair of Wharfedales, and a pair of B&W's, so I have some flexibility here.
The room is also my office though, so I need a reasonable amount of workspace for my Laptop, and monitor, printer (can be elsewhere in room as it is wireless), mouse and keyboard for this side of things. This set-up has a little 2.1 speaker set-up to go with it, but I guess I could plumb this into stereo I use for the decks if I had to. I also have a HP Microserver, which currently isn't in this room, but it might be nice to shift it in here too. A monitor would be nice for this too, as well as keyboard and mouse, but this can all be tucked away most of the time, could keep it all in a couple of the spare slots I'm likely to have with the 50 expedit slots I'm looking at, lol. Would just need a fold away worktop or something for the keyboard / mouse to sit on. Basically, I don't really want it in the way of my more often used PC / DJ space.
Beyond that, it would be nice to have some workspace left for all my electronic cigarette paraphernalia, but so long as I have a reasonable amount of office space, and a few drawers / slots available in the Expedit, I should be okay.
So, that's about it. I realise most of you people out there will be like, "screw you, use your own inspiration", but then there may be a couple, who like me, like to help spend other peoples money in such ways. I like doing it in other areas, like modding cars or whatever, but am looking for a little help here.
Here is a plan of the room :
Not great, I know. Only really had MS paint, so not to scale or anything, just drew boxes, and put in dimensions. There is a ledge on the narrower side of the room that comes up to 96cm in height. That can't be taken down. There are electrical sockets on there though, and my phone socket, sitting just above where the current table-top sits. And another electrical socket on the actual back wall. There is also the fuse board cut into the wall in the top left corner (as drawn), into the ledge, that needs access.
And a few pictures of how it currently sits. As you can probably see, there isn't really enough storage, and excuse the state of the place, it's an absolute tip...
From the Door :
Towards the Door :
Towards far wall, currently where DJ gear is set-up, 2 1210's have now been sold. Can see ledge and sockets.
Current Office (PC) space. Notice it sticks out into room. I don't mind repeating this set-up if I'm honest. Sticks out 200 cm from ledge :
Remaining Corner. Printer is there somewhere, and some records.
Records are currently scattered everywhere, as is pretty much everything if I'm honest. I just need to tidy the place up a bit, and increase storage. Particularly the records.
HELP...
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