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WFH Setup for My Wife and I (Bonus Room Above Garage)
Album in the Imgur link – multiple photos

My wife and I recently moved into a new house and had this bonus room above the garage that we decided to turn into a shared work-from-home space.

While planning the room I tried to find inspiration from other couples’ desk setups, but honestly there weren’t many examples out there. I pulled ideas from a few different builds and tried to design something that would work well for both of us while keeping the room clean and functional.

Behind the TV is a closet that runs the full length of the wall. Inside it I installed a 24U rack that houses all of my networking gear along with my Flashforge 3D printer. All the network cables run through a cable raceway around the closet and then through the wall to keep everything hidden.

Room / Desk Setup

  • 65" TCL Mini-LED TV (Black Friday pickup – $350)
  • 8ft butcher block from Lowes ($174 on sale) with white legs from Amazon ($90)
  • Main desks: Topsky sit-stand desk frames with 6ft butcher block tops from Lowes ($124 each on sale)

Desk frame:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08C2CFNT2

  • Footrests: Costco – $40 each
  • File cabinets: Amazon

My Setup

Displays

  • 2 × 34" ultrawide monitors (Dell 60Hz + MSI 144Hz)
  • 1 × 27" Samsung (60Hz)

Peripherals

  • Razer BlackWidow keyboard (Green switches)
  • Razer Basilisk V4 mouse
  • Audio-Technica AT2020 microphone

PC

  • Ryzen 5800X
  • 64GB RAM
  • EVGA RTX 3070 Ti
  • 2 × 1TB NVMe
  • Lian Li O11 case

All the cables run about 15 feet so the PC can stay off to the side while still allowing the sit-stand desk to move freely.

Cable Management

Used J-channel raceways mounted to the back and underside of the desks to keep everything clean and out of sight.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QTY5JXS

Networking / Homelab

  • Ubiquiti Dream Machine Special Edition
  • U6-LR Access Point
  • U6-Pro Access Point
  • 48-port Cisco switch (for PoE cameras)
  • Ubiquiti UNAS Pro 7-bay
  • Ubiquiti Flex 2.5 (testing)
  • 6 Strands of Single Mode Fiber running the length of the house
  • 2 Cat6a cables running the length of the house
  • 1 new Coax line running from the other end of the house.

Eventually I’ll swap the Cisco switch out for a Ubiquiti switch so everything is in the same ecosystem, but I wasn’t ready to drop the money on that upgrade yet.

Wife’s Setup

  • Samsung 43" Smart TV with USB-C so she can plug her MacBook Air directly in for work
  • https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZHQ93VJ
  • Color laser printer lives in the closet to keep the room looking clean