ARCHITECT REDESIGNS - A Tiny Office Desk Setup - 3.6sqm/39sqft

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⏱ Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:24 The Office
01:43 The Model
02:51 The Changes
06:56 The Design

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This is not design advice, nor can I give you design advice. Everything in this video is conceptual and is for entertainment purposes only and not for the purpose of providing design advice. Nothing in this video should be construed to form an architect client relationship. You should contact your own architect to obtain advice regarding any particular project.

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[DylanOB]

If this is a series, I'd love if you could include follow ups from people who take the advice and update their setups based on your advice.

[pvndavibes]

If he ends up remodeling the space hopefully he shares the photos with you. Would love to see it when it's finished!

[paddygalloway]

This was unbelievable, wow, just wow.

[Elizabeth-mptr]

I love the way you describe perceptions such as "calm in one's peripheral vision". So true.

[tomr]

Blown away by how you seem to generate these renders so easily. Incredible.

[aldwinfuntanilla]

Wow congratulations to the lucky one who got selected for the makeover concept! Great video Daniel!

[amirwashere]

You completely transformed the room. It's giving me a lot of inspiration for my own set up, keep it up Daniel!

[walker_]

I'm absolutely speechless. What a wonderful minimalist design. Thanks for sharing.

[TenshiR]

This gives me motivation to try this. My wife and I share a room on the ground floor of our house as an office. I don't even use my half anymore because we have so much of her stuff taking over the whole room. The house has NO storage at all except under the stairs.

[kenk]

I'm a fan of the before with the wood tones and character. It felt used with a sense of purpose.

[silverlinedheart]

An excellent start to this new series! Love it.
As well as these design mock-up videos, it would to cool to have a bonus ep a few months down the line to follow up with some of the folks submitting these photos and see how their redesigns went (if they happened), practically speaking.
Maybe also a total estimated budget at the end, totaling all the prices in the screenshots for the various IKEA/amazon items you mentioned. Unless there was one and I missed it.

[DipityS]

You always surprise me with what can be done with such small, well used, fully packed little spaces - as I always begin by thinking not much can be done and then you end up with a lovely welcoming and efficient space. I’m very much enjoying your work.

[kkenny]

This is probably my favorite series of yours. Super inspiring to see how rooms can be transformed so functionally and aesthetically!

[karinaki]

This was so fun to watch! Would love to see more videos like this. Maybe he will actually transform his room.

[stacykrett]

I like that you walk us through your thought process including the "back to the drawing board" moments.

[HaruhiXFujioka]

This was such a beautiful transformation! I really hate the small box rooms in our houses, but this really shows how much you can make use of it :) Excited for this series!

[chandlerainsley]

Daniel, this was absolutely fantastic. I can't imagine the amount of time this took to do, but I sure hope we see more of these in the future!

[Gsyncro]

Getting rid of useless storage space is a huge one!! I moved in with my girlfriend just before things got crazy and suddenly I needed space for an office. I took some unused space in the basement and finished the walls. She gave me this old desk/table/cabinet type of thing that doesn't seem to know what it wants to be and is good at neither of those things. The room is 7' wide and the desk thing was only 6' wide so there were gaps and tons of clutter on that thing and it was a horrible place to work from.

I took care of this last fall when a local wood supplier got the perfect piece I wanted... It's a maple slab 2 1/2" thick roughly 25" wide. I took it to work on our CNC router to flatten the top and cut 3 edges to the precise dimension of the back of the room, including the out of squareness of the walls. I flipped it over and cut relief pockets on each side of the new desktop. Back home I anchored pieces of angle iron to the wall studs and dropped the desktop in place. The angle supports hide in the pockets so it just looks like this massive shelf that's levitating in the back of the room. I screwed a length of low profile cable trough under along the back edge to hide all the wires into. It looks super clean and the slab's live edge with it's slight curve and wavyness feels like it wraps around you and is super comfy to work on. Last detail, in order not to hide the fabulous wood grain, my mousepad is just a circle of glass from an old broken clock.

[ICJimmycakes]

This was fascinating, I definitely have a new appreciation for architects and their creativity! I imagine that a lot of poor designs are people just trying to save a quick dollar

[saharshparodkar]

I am in high school and I like forward to pursue in....
But this series is already so inspiring...thank u for creating this