Office decor - updates and a poll!
unse...@gothic.net
good, since my work deadlines just keep going. The current decor
includes:
- a yard-wide dark blue stripe going horizontally across all the walls,
filled in with iridescent white stars
- 3 of those paper star lamps hanging from the ceiling
- a comfy chair draped in black chiffon and velvet
- a silver tea service & a couple of tea cups (and I use these on a
*daily* basis)
- dried roses hung on the walls
- 2 stuffed, fanged bunnies (Cohorts of Clovis the Devilbunny)
- assorted framed photos of me & The Husband and me and Clovis)
For Christmas, my parents gave me one of those desktop fountains AND a
battery-operated aromatherapy diffuser fan. So now I have soothing
water noises and a nicely-scented office, too!
(now for the poll part)
Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
-Jilli,who really likes her fountain.
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>Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
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At my old job, I had my own office. I had a poster of Van Gogh's Starry
Night and a poster with an Einstein quote on it ("Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the
world."). I also had a large collection of Tina the Troubled Teen saying
various things.
Now I share workspace with several people, and I only work half-time, so I
don't feel comfortable decorating.
-- Bex
Bring me to the end and softly back again
Make the night as safe as you can keep
Tell me that you need something I can give
A better way to curl inside your skin
Make me me again ~Feisty, "Night"
diana cascioli
Sorta, but right now, it's complete crap. I've got a few pez dispensers,
a mini barbie, some wierdo halloween toys, cube lights (for my
cubicle!), some postcards & photographs, and a complete metric ton of
paperwork strewn over everything.
I'm moving to an office (with a door--hallelujah!) next week, so I'll
probably hang neato bits from the ceiling and make more of an effort to
make my desk look more like a desk and less like Hiroshima. :\
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> Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
I work at home nowadays, but when i used to work for a boss, NO, I wasn't
allowed to decorate or change anything!!! It was an offcie tho, but those
people were realllllyy oldfahioned and stuff :-(
tiffany luning
> From: unse...@gothic.net
> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:08:09 GMT
> Subject: Office decor - updates and a poll!
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> Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
Sadly, am I living la vida cubicle right now - in an extremely
corporately-designed building, despite how many record labels it houses. I
have tons of black metal stand-up file holders for my, er, files. Very
little "decoration". Press photos/stickers/posters of my artists, a map
complete with time zone division (like I can remember time differences when
trying to arrange interviews), a couple of REALLY amusing quotes from the
media re: my artists, and my special little favorite - a black-white-yellow
voodoo doll from my trip to New Orleans last year. And a leave-behind gift
from the coworker who left (I am now doing my job as well as his, thanks) -
a black magnet that reads "If you're going through hell, keep going". Speaks
volumes about the occasional atmosphere in this joint. ;)
So it's very minimal decoration, but I'm a minimal kind of gal.
Tiffany
who longs for the day she gets an office with a DOOR.
Melusine
Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
Since I am currently in someone else's cube, my decor is minimal:
--pictures of my partners which cheers me up
--Harley Quinn statuette
--(forthcoming) Spike and Drusilla picture
--tea tin from Tealuxe
...that's it for now....
Melusine
just is
"Bring the ones like sparks...ones with fine and strange ideas that spin and
shimmer on their open palms like gyroscopes."--Alan Moore
ninja
>Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
Well, since I quit my job today, I had the joy of
*undecorating* my corner of the office!
My desk was a U-shape, with the curve of the U facing out into
our triangular reception area. The wall to my left was all
windows; the wall behind me was pale yellow; the wall
opposite me was a lovely deep periwinkle-purple! I actually
had the nicest office-space of anyone in the company even
though I was just the admin assistant.
Since it was the official entrance to the office, I couldn't
impose my will too much, but it definitely had a certain
sp0o0o0oky flair.
I had clear spiderweb decals on one window.
On top of my monitor: black dragon & black kitty beanie
babies, a gargoyle that was a gift from a former coworker.
On my desk: Edward Scissorhands figurine, a clear crystal
ball/paperweight, one of those lucite wands filled with stars
and glitter and oil blobs, a gargoyle snowglobe, random Glade
scented candles, and a black cat candleholder. Black metal
office accessories!
I always had some kind of ambient/ethereal music going.
And the wallpaper on my monitor was almost always black
with a centered .jpg of some Pre-Raphaelite painting from
artmagick.com. My desk chair was huge & black cloth-covered.
I usually kept the overhead fluorescents off, in favor of
natural light and/or a small black halogen lamp.
- beth
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daisy chains & mary janes, fairy tales cannot fool me now.
elly, Eater of Souls & Darkwave Whore
I kind of have a weird area, because it's a big room that
contains not only my office space area thing but also the media
collection (it's a closed collection) of the library.
The building was built in the freakin' 70s, and so it's
-really- god damned ugly. I have concrete slab walls for two
of them. The other walls are darkly tinted glass. Weird, dunno.
They look out into the computer lab.
So I have a bulletin board in front of my desk on the
wall, and then concrete freakin' walls. Ew.
Because I work in a library, I finagled the library to
order me a couple of READ posters. :> One is Yoda, and the other
is Darth Vader. :D Nothing like Darth Vader commanding you to
read! On the bulletin board I have a picture of my frowny face
cookie (http://www.sushigoth.com/~elly/coookie.jpg) and a picture
of miss tamera in her supercuteashell pointy hat. It's not really
my OWN space, and there are people constantly in and out, so I
don't decorate a lot, for fear of things going missing. :/
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> Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you
done?
Excellent office, Jilli! At one point, I had a small fountain on my
home office desk, but the cats liked to play in it, getting water
everywhere, so I gave it to my father. I envy you!
I am allowed to decorate my office, as I work at home. :) Although we
rent, I can do anything short of paint or remove the decorative molding.
I have very high ceilings (I live in a huge 1845 house that's been
converted into apartments), and I have taken advantage of this to hang
some shelves next to my desk, which sits in a corner. My husband's home
computer desk is behind mine, so we make a little U on one side of the
bedroom. Under the shelves, I tacked a black velvet ribbon upon which
hangs cards and photos reminiscent of people I love or things I want to
think about, like a photo of Lisa & Jageeda, a postcard of the moon, a
piece of canvas that means something to me, etc.
Above the desk itself, I have a poster of Ranma, some bat lights from a
friend, and a bat with purple lights. Next to the computer, I have a
small altar-type area where I have candles, a jar of pretty stones and
crystals, a netsuke of Benten, an incense burner, and other items to
spur my creativity and support my piece of mind. There's also a tufted
pillow upon which my cats recline when I am trying to work (actually, we
all know that they want to stand on the keyboard, but allow me my
hopes), and various tools, like my dictionaries, etc. On the monitor
stand, I have my post-it notes and a foam-rubber head that says "Paxil"
(an anti-depressent) that a drug rep gave my husband when he worked for
a psychiatrist. It's great to squeeze, like a worry ball or a stress
toy.
I don't have very much room right now, and the whole area is so
cluttered that it makes me tense. I hope to have that taken care of
over the next week, making me more productive and generally easier to be
around. I need some more flat space--I'm using a converted 6' buffet
table as a desk, and it's covered up with my Mac, letter trays, and
stacks of "to-be-sorted" stuff.
I hope to get this controlled and have room for spreading books out,
etc., but also to provide a home for a plant or two and to move my CD
player closer to me where I write. I also need a wall calender. :p
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On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:08:09 GMT unse...@gothic.net wrote:
> Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
yup, and boy do I decorate! my space is very ungoth though. It houses about 1/2 of my keroppi collection (which is um, crowded in there, I have TONS of crap). little frogs EVERYWHERE. I am known at work as the girl with the bunny slippers (I refuse to wear shoes/boots all day when I have cute comfy slippers!) or the girl with all the damn japanese frogs on her desk.
hehe,
either way its fun!
Xanthia
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> Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
Yes, although I'm in a cube farm. I've got those little Richard Scarey (sp?)
figures from the Happy Meals they made with them in '95, Harem Xena, Scully,
and Mulder, and a random assortment of several hundred bugs (I went as the
bug-tracking database for Halloween), most of which are put away at the
moment as I took them down for the holidays. The wall decor is mostly cd
inserts-Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen-and the barhopping issue of the Weekly
with the Martini Cat on the cover, plus whatever visuals I need to get me
through the day (template specs, etc.)
My office at MS had a wall devoted to the whole Paul Schell "I'm not a wuss"
thing, and random fortunes from the RedWest cafeteria.
They keep talking about moving us, so I haven't had a real nesting
opportunity. If and when they do, however, I'm planning on an all-out run on
the Toys R Us accross the street.
-Lola
Luna
We're allowed ... but I'm afraid if I had nice decorations, they'd get
stolen or destroyed. Must be nice to work somewhere you don't need to worry
about that kind of thing. :/
The few things I have there now are:
- a tall, thin black ceramic cat pen-holder
- white, red & gold ceramic Maneki Neko bank
- little yellow plastic Pikachu on the corner of my computer case
- paper poster-scroll of Sailor Moon
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Sheila Marie
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> > Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
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that go up probably 5'6". On the left wall I have various pictures, 2 from
an old calendar some one brought in with me in mind specifically, one from
the current art exhibit my company is sponsoring, a few from a kitty
calendar a co-worker had, and a nice display of post cards from a swap I
ran over a year ago.
On the wall "in front" of me I have another larger poster from the art
exhibit my company is sponsoring, and a calendar, right now its a Gone With
the Wind still on Dec, but I just got a Frank Lloyd Wright one to replace it
(did GWTW 2 years in a row, need a change) On my desk right there is my
monitor with two boo beanies on top (ghost and bat) and various lil papers
stuck all around it, only a couple are work related, the rest are doodles
I've done.
To the right I have a high shelf, on top there is a silk plant, a Santa
ornament given to me by a co-worker last year, two headstone candles (one
says "Happy Halloween, forget what the other says), a large rubbery spider,
a pile of pearl Mardi Gras beads and a lil plastic spider on top. On the
shelf I have my binders with work related stuff, but there is still a lot of
unused space, so on the wall I've tacked up a TON of sleepy kitty pics from
a co-workers desk calendar (I have a pile that won't fit, but every time she
comes across one she brings it over). Under the shelf I have a few family
photos and various work related documents on the wall. On the actual PC I
have a collection of toys, two plush Eeyores (one of him in a pumpkin
costume), a lil plush vampire ghost from Hallmark, a rubber duck (gift from
co-worker), and a plush bat (I'm forgetting some things here, I know it).
I've also thrown in cupcake toppers from this past Halloween.
One last lil place I have stuff, the part of the shelf that faces the
offices behind me, I have a Scarlet O'Hara Fridge magnet, and a huge red
velvet bow from a gift last year, along with one of those lil bins for
sticking paperwork. Oh, I almost forgot about the cartoon I have there too,
its a cow sitting in the lotus position telling you "sometimes you just
have to stop and eat the roses"
Sheila Marie, who just realized that most of her decorations are gifts from
other places, my co-workers must understand me better then I think...
dyff...@my-deja.com
Currently I'm unemployed, but we were allowed decor at my old job. I
had three bulletin boards which I covered with swirly Victorian maroon
wrapping paper. I trimmed these in black duct tape / gaffer tape which
I mitered on the corners. It looked nice, actually; people didn't
realize it was duct tape, and it covered the nasty aluminum frame on
the corkboards. I used only clear pushpins or staples, which made the
boards look more uniform.
I had a silver dolphin mobile over my file cabinet. On the cabinet, I
kept a three-wick maroon candle in a black wrought-iron holder, a lot
of tins of tea, a mug I got in the Dollar Store Whore swap (two bored
cherubs on a white background), and a flower arrangement in a bronze-
look urn.
My bulletin boards were dotted with cards sent to me by my now-husband,
and various odds and ends like liberal bumper stickers, job
announcements, silk flowers, gift bows and a rubber gitd skeleton. I
had a rubber spider on top of my computer, and a green glass painted
bowl with handles on my desk to hold crap like rubber bands, post-its,
and staple remover. Beside my printer I had a tiny green glass
hurricane lantern and a book of matches(we had no windows in our
building and it was pitch black in offices if the power went out).
My calendar was English Gardens, and I had various pictures of family
members and my now-husband in pewter frames, as well as a Glade candle
(either apple cinnamon or strawberry and cream). I kept pens and
paperclips in metal floral-painted tins. Over my desk I had a framed
poster, a dark Kramskoy still life of flowers in a vase, and over my
printer hung an unframed acrylic painting done by my former roommate in
college. I also had a clock in a wood frame that (though cheap) had
belonged to my dead grandmother.
My computer monitor was rimmed in stickers and little Post-its. I
hacked my computer's (not very good) security using OSLock (yay
internet) so that I could put on a Plus! like freeware program (Desktop
Architect) and change the appearance of my desktop. Between that
program and tweaking the registry, I got it the way I wanted it. It
mattered to me that I didn't stare at the state seal on windows default
teal, 800x600, Flowerbox screensaver, all day. That helped my mental
health a lot, actually. I mostly used wallpaper of a dirt road winding
into a misty forest, with cool greens and greyed beiges and blacks for
my desktop colors. I still have that wallpaper. :)
Dyf
kalipriestess
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>> Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
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>yup, and boy do I decorate! my space is very ungoth though. It houses about 1/2 of my keroppi collection (which is um, crowded in there, I have TONS of crap). little frogs EVERYWHERE. I am known at work as the girl with the bunny slippers (I refuse to wear shoes/boots all day when I have cute comfy slippers!) or the girl with all the damn japanese frogs on her desk.
Yay Keroppi! He was the first Sanrio character I started collecting
(aside from a few Hello Kitty items in childhood). Frog is my totem
animal, so I collect frogs in general, and I was so thrilled when I
discovered a Sanrio frog. I also like Chococat and some of the Hello
Kitty lines (the Bangle line in particular). I just can't get into
Badtz-Maru for some reason. Maybe I'm too perky. :P
kalipriestess
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close together that they touch, and star-stuff flows between them.
I know of a world with a million moons.
I know of a sun the size of the Earth--and made of diamond."
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Velvet Frogg
>>On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:08:09 GMT unse...@gothic.net wrote:
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>>> Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
>>
>>yup, and boy do I decorate! my space is very ungoth though. It houses about
>1/2 of my keroppi collection (which is um, crowded in there, I have TONS of
>crap). little frogs EVERYWHERE. I am known at work as the girl with the bunny
>slippers (I refuse to wear shoes/boots all day when I have cute comfy
>slippers!) or the girl with all the damn japanese frogs on her desk.
>
>Yay Keroppi! He was the first Sanrio character I started collecting
>(aside from a few Hello Kitty items in childhood). Frog is my totem
>animal, so I collect frogs in general, and I was so thrilled when I
>discovered a Sanrio frog. I also like Chococat and some of the Hello
>Kitty lines (the Bangle line in particular). I just can't get into
>Badtz-Maru for some reason. Maybe I'm too perky. :P
I love frogs also! Hence the name Velvet Frogg. :) And the Sanrio Store in our
mall stopped carrying Keroppi.. And my friend said b/c Sanrio stopped making
the stuff. Is that true or did this store just stop carrying him?
~my sig~
Ice Princess
> Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you done?
Well, I don't have a workspace anymore :), but the one I had till Friday
was keen.
The previous tenants were in marketing and had gotten some kind of
crackpot advice about how to make the office more "sale-worthy" by
painting it a certain way. (Wasn't a feng shui thing, the placements
were all wrong.) The office was rectangular, with a bank of full-length
windows and a door looking out onto a deck on one side. The bits of
wall on the window side were painted dark garnet red (rest of the walls
were dull white). The light fixtures and the duct work were painted
metallic silver, and the ceiling was unfinished plank timber. Really a
pleasing combination. (And my boss had given me that particular office
*because* of the colors.) I shared it with the other content person,
but it was such a large space that we had no overlaps or clashes at all.
I got out of the habit of doing any major decorating after an experience
with a former job; I'd rather be able to pack up quickly and easily if
needed (which proved useful this time, though I did have to call a
friend to give me a hand, only because I was too sick to move all the
pieces on my own).
I'd put up two framed posters that went with the red color scheme; one
was for the Chow Yun-Fat movie _Full Contact_ (as I said once in a post
elsewhere, "All any office really needs is Chow Yun-Fat with a gun") and
the other was a print by famed Hawaiian artist Herb Kawainui Kane of
Madam Pele, her looking over her shoulder with her hair as the slope of
Kilauea, glowing with lava.
My bulletin board featured a Powerpuff Girls calendar; pin-ups of Chow
Yun-Fat (with shaved head and wearing a striped Armani suit) and Russell
Crowe (in costume for _Gladiator_); an Atomic Hyrax Games business card;
a little cheesy card describing people born in the Year of the Snake; a
Mr. Furious button (from _Mystery Men_); and two photos each of my boi
(one trying to shove cake in my mouth at a party, one with Mankind at
the Comic-Con) and of my kitty.
On top of my monitor I had a little stuffed spider finger puppet; a
purple velvet stuffed bat that Kendy gave me in the "care package" swap;
and a silly little wind-up bat that came in a package from Ronda. On
top of my CPU were a small ceramic maneki a neko (classic colors) and a
Lego samurai, and propped against it were birthday cards I liked from
the staff and from my boi. I also had a small squarish silver radio.
I'd also brought in a lot of my own office supplies and organizational
stuff--pen holder, little plastic trays, that sort of thing. On my desk
were several tins of green tea (I'm not sure why I had three different
kinds) and a mug that says "All stressed up and no one to choke." I
also had some chocolate stashed in the drawers.
Took me less than 10 minutes to take down and box up this stuff on
Friday afternoon. *sigh*
We had personalized nameplates outside the door, and mine was an
anime-style caricature that I had done at the Comic-Con in '99. It was
the last thing I grabbed before I left.
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> Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have you
> done?
I, like many others, work in cubicle hell, but I have the added joy of
sharing a cubicle. That's the standard in my warehouse sized office.
They really like their lines and whiteness here, so they're strict
about what we can do. No tape or tacks on the white painted part of
our cubes. Nothing on top of the walls. There's a bulletin board on
each far wall, but it's too far away for me to hang important info I
might need, so I have it decorated.
A signed photo of Casey Kasem, two postcards (one Snapple tattoos, one
Tanqueray, both clients), a printout of the Onion's "Madonna's Wedding"
infographic ("Ceremony to reflect Madonna's "total respect for Buddhism
and yoga and the Kabbalah and stuff"), and my half wall of Sarah
Michelle Gellar obsession, just to make people talk. I have a picture
cube that will record a sound, so it says "Moo" in my voice when you
push the button, a trophy from out office talent show, some random
candles someone at work gave me, and a Cat Dog toy I got with a Burger
King kid's meal in my first week on the job, almost two years ago.
Not very decorated; I like to be able to pick up and leave anytime, too.
Not that I have, of course. ;)
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oddlystrange
> Are you allowed to decorate your workspace? If so, what have
you done?
Our home office actually gives us a decorating budget to decorate
(paint, buy crap whatever). But I'm not in the home office so I have
to make due with a contractor's cube.
Which is "decorated" if you call "toy explosion" a decorating style :)
oddlystrange
(who got the bobble headed goth girl (raven) for christmas and
keeps forgetting to add it to her toy collection here)
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kalipriestess <kalipr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I also like Chococat and some of the Hello
> Kitty lines (the Bangle line in particular).
Yay! I'm glad I'm not the only chococat fan. He's my favorite.
Unfortunately there isn't a lot of chococat stuff.
I never did get into Keropi, but I do have a random few Batz Maru
thing, and a few of the sleepy kitty things.
oddlystrange
(who's actually wearing a hello kitty angel choaker right now)
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KAR5058
>Which is "decorated" if you call "toy explosion" a decorating style :)
>
>oddlystrange
>
>(who got the bobble headed goth girl (raven) for christmas and
>keeps forgetting to add it to her toy collection here)
::giggle:: That is about the dumbest looking toy I've ever seen-
so dumb it's great! :D
Kar,
Who has the equally dumb Death soft-sculpture doll
on her office desk- also a Christmas present!
KAR5058
you done?
Since I replied briefly to this I'd better list my entire office goffness:
*One black wall with: a poster of "The Gorey Details", a play
-some postcards of England and New York in the early 1900's
-a 6' paper chinese dragon (for Chinese New Year, a fave holiday)
*One white wall with: a print of Death from Sandman, lying on
her back looking at some stars and a crescent moon
-various stuffed toys on a shelf, Boris Badenov, Daffy Duck,
Death, a large hairy black spider-
-a gothy grapevine wreath with red silk roses and silver holly
*On and around the computer: colored Xmas lights,
a 3" wooden coffin made in India; open it and there's
a tiny dancing skeleton inside
-a snapshot from my wedding (OB gothfash!)
-a resin penholder with three seated skeletons
-Several rubber bats, monsters and skeletons
-a dried red rose arrangement in an antique silver sleigh
-3 beaded necklaces (left there but never remember to bring home)
-a plasticraft coffin that holds paperclips (made by Daednu,
from the midsummer Halloween swap!)
-my favorite coffee mug, Gorey art, reads "so many books,
so little time."
The list goes on, but it's all OT, of course!
Kar
"Love turns work into rest." Teresa Of Avila