This might seem a strange follow-up to our good news, but we have a lot going on, and sometimes I just need to get it out. Mo said recently that she wouldn't recommend what we've done in the last six months to anyone. In the course of half a year I quit my job, we bought and built a house, and we had a baby. We didn't plan it to go down this way, it just did. Certainly it wasn't ideally timed. We moved in on a Saturday and the baby was born the following Monday after day of intense unpacking. Apparently we unpacked the baby.
这似乎是对我们的好消息的奇怪跟进，但是我们正在进行很多工作，有时我只需要把它弄清楚。 莫最近表示，她不会向任何人推荐过去六个月中我们所做的事情。 在半年的时间里，我辞职了，我们买了房子并盖了房子，并有了孩子。 我们并没有计划它以这种方式下降，它只是这样做了。 当然不是理想的时机。 我们搬进了一个星期六，婴儿经过激烈的拆箱后的第二个星期一出生。 显然我们打开了婴儿的包装。
My parental leave officially starts December 1, so I have to work this next week and tidy up a few things before take entire month of December off to focus on babies. Before I work, I really need my space to be organized so I can think; that's just how I'm wired. Since we designed the entire house starting with a base plan and working with an architect, there was always a plan for a home office.
我的育儿假将于12月1日正式开始，因此我必须在下周工作，整理一些事情，然后再休整整个12个月的时间来专注于婴儿。 在工作之前，我真的需要组织我的空间，这样我才能思考； 这就是我的接线方式。 由于我们从基本计划开始设计整个房屋，并与建筑师合作，因此总会有家庭办公室的计划。
I've been able to work on finishing the home office an hour here and an hour there, mostly late at night. I finished it on Wednesday after we brought the baby home and the whole house was asleep. I needed to finish it now if I was going to be productive in my final week, and if it didn't happen soon, it'd never happen. The wife backed me up 100%. Now I'm prepared to put in my final work week of the year in a home office I can think in.
我已经能够在这里一个小时和那里一个小时完成家庭办公室的工作，大部分时间是在深夜。 我把婴儿带回家后，我在周三完成了，整个房子都睡着了。 如果我要在最后一周提高工作效率，我需要立即完成此工作，并且如果它不会很快发生，那就永远不会发生。 妻子支持我100％。 现在，我准备将一年中的最后一周工作放在我可以考虑的家庭办公室中。
Here are my requirements and what I came up with. I think they are a pretty decent set of things to think about when designing your own home office or "think space."
这是我的要求以及我的想法。 我认为在设计自己的家庭办公室或“思考空间”时，需要考虑很多类似的事情。
色彩 (Colors)
Color is huge when designing a space that you're going to spend 10 hours a day in. When I started the Microsoft job just 8 weeks ago, I was doing the work in a spare bedroom with white walls and a cheesy random desk. My son's room was next door and I could hear him pounding for me to come out and play. It was not only a bummer but totally not a place in which I could get into the zone. The WHITE whiteness of the WHITE walls was hospital-like and medicinal. Not in the good way. It was stark and glaring.
设计每天要花10个小时的空间时，色彩是巨大的。八周前，当我开始Microsoft工作时，我正在一间空旷的卧室里工作，那里有白色的墙壁和一张随意的桌子。 我儿子的房间在隔壁，我能听到他为我跳出来踢球的声音。 这不仅是一个令人毛骨悚然的地方，而且完全不是我可以进入该区域的地方。 白墙的白度呈医院样且具有药用价值。 不好。 那是鲜明而刺眼的。
In the new office I took a totally different tack, one that I was teased about by a number of friends and family. I painted the office a deep dark chocolate brown. I like to think about it as "Library Brown." It's the kind of color The Highlander would paint his secret sanctum sanctorum.
在新办公室里，我采取了完全不同的方针，许多朋友和家人都嘲笑我。 我给办公室涂了深巧克力黑。 我喜欢将其视为“图书馆布朗”。 汉兰达会用这种颜色画他秘密的圣所。
Turns out that the color really works, and that the room almost hugs you with the depth of the color. It also distinctly and dramatically sets them apart from other rooms in the house as there's no other room like it.
事实证明，颜色确实有效，并且房间几乎可以用颜色的深度来拥抱您。 由于没有其他类似的房间，这也将它们与房子中的其他房间区分开来。
艺术 (Art)
Why is Art second on my list? Because just like Color, I believe that Art can really set the tone in a room. It's the difference between slapping a computer up in a random room and calling it "Office" and really putting some thought into your space and what you want to be surrounded with. If your surround yourself with crap, you're more likely to produce crap. We have a pile of Art in the house, maybe I'll share it with you some day. It's not expensive art, it's just what we like. Sure, there's a poster here and there, but most of it has been collected over the better part of a decade of wandering around the world and getting local art from local artists.
为什么Art在我的名单上第二？ 因为就像色彩一样，我相信艺术可以真正设定房间的基调。 这是将一台计算机拍成随机的房间并称其为“办公室”，然后在您的空间和您想要包围的东西中真正投入一些想法之间的区别。 如果您周围有垃圾，那么您更有可能产生垃圾。 我们房子里有一堆艺术品，也许有一天我会和你分享。 这不是昂贵的艺术品，而是我们喜欢的艺术品。 当然，这里到处都有一张海报，但是大部分海报是在十年间漫游世界的大部分时间里收集的，并从当地艺术家那里获得当地艺术品。
However in my office, I surround myself with two kinds of wall hanging, the first is info-diagrams. Since part of my job is making complex things simpler (or at least make them seem simpler) I like to explore different visualization techniques. I've got some clever visualizations up, like Tufte's favorite Napoleon's March as seen in the picture above, as well as the Death and Taxes Poster, a large representational graph of the US Federal Budget. Might seem weird to you, but these are the things that can inspire. Find yours.
但是，在我的办公室里，我周围有两种壁挂，第一种是信息图。 由于我的工作之一就是使复杂的事情变得更简单(或者至少使它们看起来更简单)，所以我喜欢探索不同的可视化技术。 我有了一些巧妙的可视化效果，例如上图所示的塔夫特最喜欢的拿破仑三月，以及《死亡与税收》海报，这是美国联邦预算的大型代表图。 对您来说可能看起来很奇怪，但是这些都是可以激发灵感的。 找到你的。
The second is pictures that motivate. Pictures of the wife, the kids, folks I've met, folks I want to meet. The kinds of pictures that make you happy to wake up and happy to work towards a goal. Each carefully chosen. No negativity in the Home Office.
第二是激发动力的图片。 妻子，孩子，我认识的人，我想认识的人的照片。 可以使您高兴地醒来并为实现目标而高兴的图片。 每个精心挑选。 内政部没有消极情绪。
家庭办公室/家庭分离 (Home Office/Home Separation)
The room is on the first floor, away from the other bedrooms and the boy's playroom. It's off in a far corner of the house, near the garage and has it's own full bathroom. It's set aside such that it's even easy to miss and forget about as a room.
房间位于二楼，远离其他卧室和男孩的游戏室。 它在房子的一个角落，在车库附近，有自己的完整浴室。 它被搁置一旁，甚至很容易遗忘和遗忘。
It was really important to Mo and I that this room be separate, both for us and for the kids. When Daddy's at the office he's at the office. I tell my son "I'm going to work now!" and he says "work work work!" and signs work.
对于Mo和我来说，这间房间对于我们和孩子们都是分开的，这真的很重要。 爸爸在办公室时，他在办公室。 我告诉儿子“我现在要去工作！” 他说：“工作工作吧！” 和标志工作。
We're thinking of putting up an LED or light of some kind that lets the kids know when I'm recording a show or on a call. I was thinking of getting a vintage Radio "On Air" Light, perhaps cheap on ebay.
我们正在考虑安装某种LED或灯光，以便在我正在录制节目或正在通话时让孩子知道。 我当时想买一台老式的广播电台“ On Air”灯，在ebay上可能很便宜。
连接性 (Connectivity)
Making it easy to connect was very important. I planned out where to put the network ports (I'm not a wireless fan, you just can't compare 54Mbs to 1Gbs) and put eight just at my feet and other four in the bookshelf. I'm not a fan of local hubs and switches, instead preferring to put those in the wiring closet.
使其易于连接非常重要。 我计划在哪里放置网络端口(我不是无线风扇，您不能将54Mbs与1Gbs进行比较)，然后将8个放在我的脚下，将另外4个放在书架上。 我不是本地集线器和交换机的粉丝，而是更喜欢将它们放在配线柜中。
I use Verizon Fios and have been very happy with them. They turned on option for 15Mbs downstream and 15Mbs UPSTREAM on the 19th of this month for just a little extra, so now I'm running symmetric. This makes uploading the podcast less of a chore.
我使用Verizon Fios ，对此感到非常满意。 他们在本月19日为下游15Mbs和15Mbs UPSTREAM启用了选件，仅需多花一点钱，所以现在我在对称运行。 这样一来，上传播客的工作就不那么麻烦了。
台 (Desk)
There's just no good way to take a picture of a computer desk and have it look nice...or even close to what it looks like in person. It always looks like a pile of cables and goo.
没有什么好方法可以给电脑桌拍照，让它看起来很漂亮……甚至接近亲眼所见的样子。 它总是看起来像一堆电缆和粘胶。
That said, I'm happy with mine. An interesting aside about this table is that it was mean to be built as an "L" but I never did it. I've had the desk (it's brushed steel and glass) for years but I took the corner piece and put it in the closet in the old house where it sat for literally years. But I didn't throw that piece away. When it came time to think about a desk for the new office, I was thinking to buy a new one. Then I remembered the extra piece. The bolts and hardware were long gone, but I took the parts to Home Depot and found bolts that would fit, including the corner piece. I put the desk together in the new office, and it was like having a brand-new desk. It was 25% larger, fit the corner perfectly and it was the desk I'd dreamed of. Never throw "extra" parts away of a larger thing.
也就是说，我对我感到满意。 关于此表的一个有趣的地方是，它是作为“ L”构建的，但我从未这样做过。 我已经把桌子(拉丝的钢和玻璃)放在桌子上好多年了，但是我拿了转角把它放进了老房子的壁橱里，在那里坐了好几年。 但是我没有把那块扔掉。 当需要考虑为新办公室使用书桌时，我正在考虑购买新的书桌。 然后我想起了多余的一块。 螺栓和五金件早已不复存在，但我将零件带到了Home Depot ，发现适合的螺栓，包括角件。 我把桌子放到新办公室里，就像拥有一张崭新的桌子一样。 它大了25％，完全适合角落，那是我梦dream以求的桌子。 切勿将“多余”的部分丢掉。
It was funny, I tried dozens of desks and the one I wanted was always with me, just put together wrong. A good desk has lots of horizontal space, natch, and a clear and viable cable management strategy.
这很有趣，我尝试了几十张桌子，而我一直想要的那个一直在我身边，只是放错了地方。 一张好的办公桌要有很多水平空间，小空间以及清晰可行的电缆管理策略。
电缆管理 (Cable Management)
I'm not obsessive about cable management, but I like my things tidy. I strongly recommend cable ties. Just buy a bin of hundreds and put it in the closet. If you have an unlimited supply you're more likely to use them and not treat them like a precious commodity.
我对电缆管理不是很着迷，但是我喜欢整洁的东西。 我强烈建议使用扎带。 只需购买几百个垃圾箱，然后将其放入壁橱即可。 如果您有无限的供应，则您更有可能使用它们，而不会将它们视为珍贵的商品。
Use cable ties like they are going out of style. Think through where each cable goes and with what other cable it can go "along for the ride."
请使用束线带，以免它们过时。 考虑一下每条电缆的走线位置以及可以和其他电缆一起走的路线。
I also keep every USB cable I've ever had, every power brick, and just put them in a large box. When work is by the hour, you need that special cable right now. Cable management is not just tying up loose cables, but also being able to find them when you need them.
我还保留了所有的USB电缆，每块电源砖，然后将它们放在一个大盒子里。 当按小时工作时，您现在需要专用电缆。 电缆管理不仅可以捆扎松散的电缆，还可以在需要时找到它们。
监控器 (Monitors)
You just can't have enough screen space. Any space in front of your face that isn't a working monitor but is still in your field of view is a waste if it's not conveying information. I've got four monitors on the main machine, the MacBook Running Vista the left and the ThinkPad T60p on the right. Keep them all working. Screw Virtual Desktops, use real ones. I usually focus on three main monitors and use the other three for "scratch paper," full screen remote desktop sessions, Outlook email or calendar, or Virtual Machines. Seriously. Spend the money and add a monitor. It'll change your life.
您只是没有足够的屏幕空间。 如果不能传达信息，则面部前面的任何不是有效的显示器，但仍在您的视野中的空间都是浪费。 我在主机上有四个显示器，左侧是运行Vista的MacBook，右侧是ThinkPad T60p。 保持它们全部运转。 拧紧虚拟桌面，使用真实桌面。 我通常专注于三个主要监视器，而其他三个则用于“草稿纸”，全屏远程桌面会话，Outlook电子邮件或日历或虚拟机。 说真的花钱并添加监视器。 它会改变你的生活。
搁板 (Shelving)
I'm officially now a fan of shelving systems. Greg turned me on to the Billy Shelving System at IKEA and I picked up five pieces plus lights and two doors. They are infinitely configurable, incredibly cheap and rather nice looking. I was able to create a system that almost looks like a built-in for just over $300. Finally all my books and reference materials are easily accessible.
我现在正式是架子系统的粉丝。 格雷格(Greg)将我带到宜家的比利货架系统，我拿起了五件加灯和两扇门。 它们是无限可配置的，价格便宜得令人难以置信，而且外观漂亮。 我能够用300美元以上的价格创建一个几乎内置的系统。 最后，我所有的书籍和参考资料都可以轻松获得。
The one on the left with the doors is just Office Supplies. There's three 36" shelves, one 18" and one shorty 36" on the right. I was able to pick the lights I wanted, doors, shelves and colors and assembled the whole thing by myself in about 3 hours. Amazing. They are bolted to the wall for safety as well. Get shelves. They are happy things.
左侧带门的只是办公用品。 右边有三个36英寸的架子，一个18英寸，一个矮的36英寸。我能够挑选想要的灯，门，架子和颜色，并由我自己在大约3个小时内完成了整个组装过程。为了安全起见，也要放到架子上，这是件快乐的事。
人机工程学 (Ergonomics)
Take the 15 minutes it'll take and measure your desk and chair and monitor according to an ergonomic chart. My chair was too high and my monitor too low. My chair arms were also too low. It is one of those things that we always have on our list but never do. Your butt will thank you.
花费15分钟，即可根据人体工程学图表测量您的桌椅和显示器。 我的椅子太高，显示器太低。 我的椅子扶手也太低了。 这是我们始终存在但从未做到的事情之一。 你的屁股会谢谢你的。
舒适地头脑风暴 (Brainstorming in Comfort)
I was surprised when I visited the Microsoft campus how many folks had deeply customized their offices. Most had at least couches. Many were unconventional. Don Box had just a few hipster chairs and a 42" plasma. It was a Voodoo Lounge more than an office.
当我参观微软园区时，令我感到惊讶的是，有很多人深刻地定制了他们的办公室。 大多数都至少有沙发。 许多是非常规的。 Don Box只有几个时髦的椅子和一个42英寸的等离子。这是一个Voodoo休息室，而不仅仅是办公室。
And that's cool. If you're going to be somewhere for many hours, why not make it comfortable? This led me to bring in a couch and pillows into my office. Rather than buying a couch (I'm cheap, more on that later) I just bought a slipcover (the greatest thing, slipcovers) and covered a random nasty couch we'd been thinking to get rid of. I threw some matching pillows on top and now it fits the room it looks like it has always been there.
那很酷。 如果您要在某个地方呆多个小时，为什么不舒服呢？ 这导致我把沙发和枕头带进我的办公室。 我没有买沙发(我很便宜，以后再说)，我只是买了一个沙发套(最棒的东西，沙发套)，盖了我们一直想摆脱的一个肮脏的沙发。 我在上面放了一些匹配的枕头，现在它看起来像以前一样适合房间。
Find comfort things that help you brainstorm. I've got my couch and XM Radio Boombox (no TV's in the Home Office) and a whiteboard. I really recommend that Home Offices have whiteboards. Basically, be sure to have a "second seat" for you when you just need to be somewhere else, but leaving the office would mess up your flow.
寻找可以帮助您集思广益的舒适事物。 我有沙发和XM Radio Boombox(内政部没有电视)和白板。 我真的建议内政部有白板。 基本上，当您只需要在其他地方时，一定要为您提供“第二个座位”，但是离开办公室会打乱您的流程。
耗材 (Supplies)
I dedicated one of the shelves to Office Supplies and put some doors on it. I really feel if you have an office you need all the typical supplies you never think you'll need, so I got a stapler, tape, pens, everything you'd have in a regular office. All this required was the will to do it and a big trip to an office supply shop. The goal is to never be blocked in some task because of a missing staple or paper.
我将其中一个架子专用于办公用品，并在上面放了几扇门。 我真的觉得，如果您有办公室，则需要所有您从未想过的典型耗材，因此，我得到了订书机，胶带，钢笔以及常规办公室中的所有物品。 所需要做的就是做到这一点以及前往办公用品店的一次大旅行。 目标是永远不要因为缺少钉书钉或纸张而被阻挡在某些任务中。
特殊需求 (Special Needs)
I've got bad hands and probably always will. Consequently I use a combination of the keyboard and Vista Speech Recognition.
我的手不好，也许永远都会。 因此，我将键盘和Vista语音识别结合使用。
If you've thought about using Speech Recognition, seriously, get a decent microphone and a microphone stand. Not one of those cheap USB Headset Microphones, a real one, like a Samson USB C01U Studio Condenser Microphone. I often record podcasts with it, and I've got it sitting in front of my mouth on a professional microphone stand. If you are getting 90% recognition, a good quality microphone will get you that extra 5-7%.
如果您已经考虑过使用语音识别，请认真购买一个像样的麦克风和一个麦克风支架。 没有哪一种便宜的USB头戴式麦克风是真正的产品，例如Samson USB C01U Studio电容式麦克风。 我经常用它录制播客，并且已经将它放在专业麦克风支架上，放在嘴里。 如果您获得90％的识别率，那么优质的麦克风将为您带来额外的5-7％。
If you have special needs, acknowledge them, plan for them, and take action on them.
如果您有特殊需要，请确认他们，为它们计划并采取行动。
小细节 (Little Details)
Where's your beverages? Your snacks? Your notebook or scratch paper? Do you have a whiteboard? I put each of these in a specific place so that nothing would be wanting when I'm in the "zone."
你的饮料在哪里？ 你的零食？ 您的笔记本或草稿纸？ 你有白板吗？ 我将它们分别放在一个特定的位置，这样当我在“区域”中时就不会想要任何东西。
To be clear, I'm not saying that one should just put a catheter in and never leave the room. I leave all the time and hug the kids and hang out, do lunch, etc. What I'm proposing is that you should make sure that everything you need when you're in The Zone so that one item missing doesn't become a "speed bump" that jerks you out of the frame of positive, productive thought.
明确地说，我并不是说应该只插入一根导管，而不要离开房间。 我一直无休止地拥抱孩子们，出去玩，吃午餐，等等。我的建议是，当您进入“区域”时，请确保您需要的所有东西都不会丢失。 “减速带”使您脱离积极的，富有成效的思想。
备份/逃生策略 (Backup/Getaway Strategy)
I posted about my family backup strategy before and I encourage you to have one when you are running a home office.
我之前发布过有关家庭备份策略的信息，并鼓励您在运行家庭办公室时拥有一个。
Do you use imaging software? Since I'm my own IT department (since I work remotely for Microsoft) I need to be able to bring any of my machines back to live in an emergency.
您使用成像软件吗？ 由于我是我自己的IT部门(因为我在Microsoft进行远程工作)，因此我需要能够将我的任何计算机恢复到紧急状态。
I've got:
我有：
Offline Sync'ed Backups of Important Stuff via FolderShare.
通过FolderShare对重要资料进行脱机同步备份。
- Windows Home Server backing up every machine in the house daily. Windows Home Server每天备份房屋中的每台计算机。
SyncBack SE (one of my advertisers, coincidentally) moving files from primary to secondary storage daily as well as backing up this blog.
SyncBack SE (恰好是我的广告商之一)每天将文件从主存储移动到辅助存储，并备份此博客。
- Mozy.com backing up everything to the cloud. Mozy.com将所有内容备份到云。
And I have a getaway drive. That's the one disk that you grab in the case of a fire.
而且我有一个逍遥游。 那是您在发生火灾时抓取的一个磁盘。
成本和成本/收益策略 (Cost and Cost/Benefit Strategy)
I'm frugal to say the least and even though I'm working for Microsoft remotely, they didn't pay for any of this. They only pay my monthly Internet bill because I negotiated it up front. The office was my own thing, so I needed to do it on the cheap.
至少可以说我节俭，尽管我正在为Microsoft远程工作，但他们并没有为此付费。 他们只付我每月的互联网账单，因为我是事先协商的。 办公室是我自己的，所以我需要便宜地做。
- Paint - $40 油漆-40美元
- Shelves, Doors and Lights - $310 架子，门和灯-$ 310
- Desk - Already had 桌子-已经有
- Sofa Slipcover - $60 on sale 沙发套-特价$ 60
- Art - Got piles lying around, rotating it every six months 艺术-堆成一堆，每六个月旋转一次
- Office Supplies - $100 办公用品-$ 100
- Thought and Planning - Priceless ;) 思想与计划-无价；)
I can't tell you how great it feels to have my little space complete, especially since it was put together from empty room on Saturday to complete office on Weds night. Thank goodness for Electric Screwdrivers.
我无法告诉您完整的小空间给我带来多大的感觉，尤其是因为它是从星期六的空房间放到晚上的Wedding晚上完成的。 谢天谢地，电动螺丝刀。
翻译自: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/new-job-new-house-new-baby-and-designing-a-totally-new-home-office
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