Mine is a goddamn mess by my standards:
My roommates moved out while I was on holiday. We want to convert their bedroom into our home office, and they were supposed to paint it all white and remove all their crap, but they didn't because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. So now I'm in Minty Ocher land with a temporary desk. (The wall behind me is painted in the middle yellow color. Blegh.)
But at least I have a separate work room. It is good to have plenty of space these days.
I heard her saying to nobody in particular (even though I'm the only one in earshot), "Man, I really need a decent mouse pad." If she comes for mine it's every man for himself. I bought the Sayl because I was too chicken to spend the money on an Aeron. I don't regret it, per se, because it's a nice chair, but I also wish I would have just bought the thing I really wanted. You made a good choice.
Not sure if it's still an option, but you can have mouse pads printed, for example with the text "I want my Sayl back". The Aeron was an expensive purchase, but when I thought of it as "purchase to not kill my back, which is already weak AF from sitting in shitty office chairs since I was 8, any longer" it made more sense. I went for a refurbished one and can reccomend it. As good as new, lots of spare parts and they last forever anyway, at like 1/3rd the price.
Aerons are 100% essential to living. Yeah, I said it. I spend my life on my ass. We don't have aerons at work (RIP) and it sucked. When my sister was an architect at a multinational they bought ten of every single ergonomic chair and shipped them from office to office for everyone to try out. After six months they bought 1100 Aeron chairs.
That will make it all the easier to buy some aeron chairs when this thing is over. They're 100% made in the USA and about 95% recyclable. Not only that but every single part is available individually at a retail level, from Herman Miller, eBay and a number of other vendors. It is easier maintaining the health of an Aeron chair than it is maintaining the health of a Honda lawnmower.
Not all of us are working from home :( I still have to go in. Am enjoying seeing everyone's set-up though.
Just finished setting up my desk last week, actually! It's a bit thrown-together, but overall I'm pretty happy with the space :) Featuring journals (I'm infamous for taking detailed notes during even mundane meetings), grow lights (I have no idea if these are actually helping my plants grow or not), a salt lamp (from a hippy ex-girlfriend who wanted to remove ions from the air or something), a guitar (for playing), books (for reading), dice (for rolling), and plants (for admiring)! Deadass had my credit card lying out on my desk, hence the box of REDACTED
For quite some time now! Here's a pic from the Before Time two years ago. It's not super necessary since I prefer to stare at my monitor, but I easily get neck cramps so everything to reduce strain on my neck helps, including raising my laptop screen closer to eye level.
That ridiculous picture of mine has two Humanscale M/Flex dual monitor arms and a Humanscale M8 holding up the laptop. All of which talk to a 4x2 KVM. It's a ridiculous setup. But hot diggity damn is it lush. I inflicted dual monitors on an M/Flex on the receptionists at the birth center. They love it. Remember: buy used. Daytraders, Bloombergers and techbros are big into Humanscale so they buy them, blow themselves up and their shit gets swept up by vultures who promptly post it on eBay. They're like Aeron chairs in the dot com era except any schlub can sit in a chair. Monitor arms? Those require, like, a screwdriver.
Ebay is a whole order of magnitude cheaper than Amazon. Used it is. You've done your receptionists a huge service. I've pestered every single one of my desktop-using roommates to get dual monitors. No one comes back to single monitors from two. Yah, that set up is a dream. The TV monitor to top it off is [rainbow barf]. BUT, how the heck are you and veen gucci with no floor padding to protect the wood from wheel scuffs/scratches?
All you people and your fancy setups. You can't even see my desk underneath the rats nest of cables and notes to myself, so let's see if this image from a random website embeds: Mine doesn't have the drawers on the left side and is smaller because of it. And it's more beat up because I got it from a neighbor who got it from an inlaw who got it from Raytheon when they threw it out. Also it's a worse yellowy brown color. On top I've got my work laptop, on to of my personal laptop, a cheap gateway monitor from 8 years ago, and a keyboard and mouse from who knows where.
For the longest time my "desk" was actually an ex-Boeing workbench. It was made out of 3/4" and 1.5" MDF, covered in ESD melamine, with a 1/2" copper ground bar running across the top in front of the plug strip, which was attached to a hospital plug. There was also a 220 outlet. I bought it out of Boeing Surplus for $50 and got it home. I opened the drawer and found a manual marked "sensitive" describing procedures for testing the detonation circuits of the SRAM-II nuclear air to surface missile. I still have that manual somewhere. Looking back on it I'm undecided if someone was just not paying attention or if someone wanted to give a schmuck like me a thrill.