Allergic to overhead lighting

semicolin_ is a software engineer, and this room is where the personal projects happen after work. It is also where the day gets unwound. Nothing on the ceiling is lit: the owner is allergic to overhead lighting and loves a lamp. A floor lamp with two glass globes stands by the window, a shaded lamp sits on the shelf above the desk, and strips behind the screens and under the shelf take the rest. All of it lands purple.

The ultrawide sits at eye level and the speakers sit at ear level, and both are deliberate. The Definitive Technology Demand D9s cost a hundred and twenty dollars for the pair, against about eight hundred and fifty new. A subwoofer hides under the desk on a receiver.

The second screen is turned side on at the right. It holds what the owner wants near but does not read often, and it is the display for the Nintendo Switch. Six to eight windows at once is the working habit. One 32:9 screen would replace the pair one day, but not before the RTX 2080 Super goes. It still plays everything at 1440p ultrawide and 120Hz, and a wider screen would drop that too far.

The corner by the window is the other half of the room. The armchair and the footstool are the IKEA Oskarshamn, big, with a high back and a headrest, because the owner will not have a lounge chair that leaves the head unsupported. The task chair at the desk arrived the day before the photo and is a large upgrade on the last one. The mirrored drawers beside the desk are the CB2 Hudson, now discontinued, found on Facebook Marketplace for about a hundred and fifty dollars after some back and forth. The rug took a long time to find: an irregular shape, a pattern the owner liked, and a price the owner agreed with, from Lany Space.

The wall above the desk carries small framed art, record sleeves and a few sealed Playboy issues from the early eighties, picked up at a consignment exchange. The portrait on the left is of the owner's girlfriend, painted by a local artist. The clock on the right spells the time out in letters, and the little television on the shelf by the window is a LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System. The room is tidied every day, and a robot vacuum runs a few times a week.