It is time to get started on the Model My Home Office project. It has become even more compelling than it was when I initially conceived the project. And since I just spent a day and a half working from home and finding the current setup totally inefficient for including the additional work space occasionally required for my day job the need and desire to move things around is becoming ever more desperate.
It appears there is going to be a lot more outside the computer prep work needed for this project, or at least more time consuming prep work. And there will probably be some inside the computer prep work. I expected the outside the computer prep work, at least to some extent, I’m not sure about the in the computer stuff. Though I don’t think the in the computer work will be nearly as time consuming as the outside the computer work.
For in the computer I will need to set up my grid system and display both the horizontal and vertical. I’m not sure if I’m going to need it three sided yet or not. We’ll see.
The outside the computer prep work involves getting the dimensions of the room. You try this by yourself. I don’t know about you, my tape measure doesn’t always cooperate. No, I don’t have some fancy electronic measuring device. Just an old fashioned one inch wide auto stop 25
foot tape measure.
Adding to getting the basic room dimensions there are the niggling bits of where the outlets are along the wall, where on the wall the door is and how much of that space is taken up by the trim around the door, and where the window is and so on. Honestly, all of this would be so much easier if the room were totally empty. I could get to everything and have just those dimensions as well as all the height dimensions noted in probably 2 hours. Alas, no. My room is full and the walls are basically covered with furniture. Just to get the basic floor dimensions I had to snake the tape under a desk and I had to go behind a door. It’s going to be a challenge.
All of that so far is just going to be to get the room itself modeled. I still have stuff in the room. I need to get the dimensions on those things, even if they are rough dimensions. I have a lot of stuff. This is going to take a while.
Of course, trying to model enough of this stuff to rearrange the office may cause me to rethink the necessity or functionality of some of what I have. Then again…maybe not.
So at least things are starting to see progress.