Homemaking Tips 🌷 15: Home office & Homeschool setups

  Homemaking Tips 🌷 15: Home office & Homeschool setups

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In 2020, the pandemic hit. It was unexpected, unpredictable, and unimaginable. 

Suddenly, for those of us who worked and attended school outside of our homes, had to now do everything from home.

Were our homes ready for this? Even with the help of the internet, maybe over 99% of the time, we weren't ready. 

Our homes were probably very already congested, and where were we going to place our laptops, equipment, books, and all other work/school supplies?

It was a tough year for the mankind.

However, this transition could really have done us either extreme bad or good, depending on how we decided to manage it all.

There might not have been anything we could've done in terms of health conditions, but for those who were and are still healthy from then til now, we have a choice to take this as an advantage to make it work.

It was an opportunity for us to make our homes even more practical, useful, and comfortable, to support our needs, ever more than before.

This is my home office, 2021 version.

It's probably like nothing you've expected to see.

I needed the help of green/nature theme to help create a fun visual effect, and reduce stress. 

I customized my home office to standing style, situating the laptop and keyboard on top of a drawer cabinet.

Link to laptop raiser for standing work

Link to stand up desks

Link to laptop skins

There are 2 reasons I decided to work standing, and no chair: 

(1) I have young kids so the chair is hazardous when they run around.

(2) I knew I wasn't going to burn enough energy throughout the day if I kept sitting, for an entire year. Also, I discovered that human posture is the most natural when we stand straight up, and it was right, standing style no longer made my upper body ache with joint pains. 

If you're fit to stand, I suggest work standing, and sit when you need to. The longer we sit, the more health problems we'll have.

I don't use a desk because everything is done inside my laptop, and rarely do I even use pens and papers.

The stand is handmade, by taping 2 cardboard boxes, and I wrapped them with wood design wallpaper so it kind of goes with the nature-ish theme I have around it.

The table on the right side is my kids' home school station. 

Here's a better view of it.

This picture was taken some time before the picture above, so there's a piano instead of my work stand.

But the main focus of this image below is my kids' home school area.

I kept it really simple, only the things they need to do remote learning.

All their supplies are in their book bags, so when they are learning, I take them out from the school bags, and when they're done, I tuck them away back in the school bags.

I've shared the in-session and off-session images in my very first post of this homemaking series.

Homemaking 🌷 1: First and Foremost

The desk is actually a coffee table I repurposed.

I also applied wallpaper on it, and added another layer of waterproof sheet for easy cleaning.

Link to wooden wallpapers

Link to houseplant arts

Link to electronic upright pianos

Link to coffee tables

Link to waterproof protector rolls

And just for fun, here're the 2020 versions of my home office and remote learning stations.

You can see that the setups are more entry level, because it was our first attempt, just like the rest of the world all experienced.

There was no theme yet at this point, just very plain layout, so the nature theme was added gradually later on. 

Link to customizable wooden signs

Link to Pothos plants

Link to electronic pencil sharpeners

Link to white printers

Being able to simplify the setups was the best method to make work and school from home possible, in our case.

I want to emphasize again, that standing is really beneficial to our health and body alignment, so if you're still working from home, see if you can modify your setup to stand up style as well. 

Stay tuned for more inspirations! 

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