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Office/Exercise room layout & design ideas

Tammy Kahler Johnson

3 years ago

This is a rough drawing of the room layout. It is roughly 150 sq ft. I need to put in an office with bookshelves and a desk and a filing cabinet (which I prefer to be part of the cabinetry) and also have my exercise equipment (weights & a treadmill). For my desk I do work from home full time and I need to have 2 24" monitors on my desk for my use as well as a docking station for my laptop.

FYI on the wall on the top of the drawing, the ceiling was lowered a bit cover some pipes and there was also a pipe that stuck out a bit from the wall so they has to build the wall out a bit also. I have 9' ceilings in my basement, so that lowered area is still about 8'.

Also we'd like to have a space for my husband to have a desk in this area also. Was thinking on the bottom wall?

Anyway, open to some ideas! Thanks!

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Patricia Colwell Consulting
3 years ago
Pretty small space for all that stuff. Could you post an actual to scale plan and pictures if you have them too. My husband and I share an office 16x 14 ‘ and I have no idea how my treadmill and weight bench could really go in there .Hubby has 3 monitors on a corner type desk and I have a fairly large desk one Mac and some good space for my work area as I am a designer. I also have a drafting table , foldable, that I use often. I need to see an aactul scaled drawing All the doors in your space also create issues.
Tammy Kahler Johnson
Original Author
3 years ago
It’s all getting Sheetrock right now but I know what you are saying. I may need to put my workout area somewhere else in the basement. Will try to add more pics and scale later
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