"Man cave" / Home office / Lab / Photo-studio

nobody@flickr.com (Dan Tidswell) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:18:11 -0700

OMG made it onto Lifehacker - my favorite website - that was totally unexpected.

View in 3D here (thanks for the link Luzer)

Note to sea sick viewers, click here for a less dramatic non-pano version.

I had an unusually quiet afternoon in my home office yesterday so I decided to do that spring clean I promised myself back in March.

This was originally a double garage built into my house. I fitted it out with several inches of sound proof insulation, installed an air-con unit to heat and cool then painted it white to emphasise the light. Fitting it from scratch allowed me to get the wiring all hidden away, I have CAT5 everywhere, Oxygen Free speaker cable in the ceiling and coax for various purposes all linked into a large patch panel.

The room serves several purposes, I work from home so it's my office, I love movies so it's my home cinema room, I'm passionate about photography so it's my photo studio and I like to built / hack stuff so it's my lab.

Much of the equipment was salvaged and repaired, like the HD projector and 24U rack cabinet. The 27" and 26" dual head display is the only real extravagance, I'm a sucker for big screens :-)

8 image pano shot with Nodal Ninja 3, Sigma 12-24 and Canon 5D Mark II. Stitched in Realviz.

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"Man cave" / Home office / Lab / Photo-studio