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A guy at the library on Clark St said my desk setup looked like a hospital waiting room, and he was right
I had a plain white desk, a silver lamp, and a grey chair in my spare room, and I thought it looked clean and simple until a guy at the library on Clark St glanced at a photo on my phone and said it looked like a hospital waiting room. I swapped the white shade for a warm bulb, added a $15 woven runner from a flea market, and put a small trailing plant on the corner, and the whole thing finally feels like a place I want to sit. What is the one small thing that made your space feel less like an office and more like a corner you actually like?
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the_miles14d ago
The "hospital waiting room" thing is real and it usually comes from overhead light hitting a bare wall, not the furniture itself. One thing that fixes that cheap is putting something on the wall behind the desk, like a cork board or a framed poster, so your eyes land on something instead of blank paint. It costs almost nothing and does more than swapping out lamps.
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