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Build your own work space
I have spent the last few weeks researching all my options for a comfortable, elegant, efficiently designed, LARGE video editing work station. I don’t want to feel cramped or like my monitors and mixers are crowded together in a tight place. I want to have enough flat space to be able to put a phone, a coffee cup, a notebook – all the stuff you use when you edit in real life (as opposed to in a furniture catalog). I have plenty of room in my basement to spread out, so space isn’t really a limiting factor. My research indicates that I can either (a) spend thousands of dollars to get one of the high-end editing consoles; (b) buy a cheapo product at Ikea like the Galant; or (c) put together my own.
A is out of the question. For one thing, it’s much more than I want to spend. It also doesn’t generally give me a huge amount of real estate to work with, unless I spend many thousands of dollars. And for the most part the designs generally seem too modern/techno for my taste.
B gives me the willies. The Galant system looks like I could put together the kind of workspace I want. But it is VERY important to me that the station be ROCK SOLID stable and well built. And I know, from long past experience, that IKEA furniture is rarely that.
Which brings me to C.
I am not a carpenter or woodworker, so I’m not going to be building fine furniture. But I have run out of other options.
In a perfect world, I would be able to buy SHAPED tabletops, either the kidney shaped top that editors love or some other non-rectangular shaped or angled tabletop, add some height-adjustable (this is important) sturdy legs, a riser or two for monitors and speakers, a second extension table to the left for the mixer, and a third extension table to the right for other stuff. That would be ideal. Spacious, sturdy and relatively inexpensive.
However, we do not live in a perfect world. What I think I have access to from Home Depot is a selection of wooden doors (rectangular) that I can rest on / screw to legs. And for my two other tables, well, I guess I can use some smaller wooden doors and some legs, and create a modified “C” shape with my chair in the middle. Obviously, when you work with rectangles, you waste a lot of space.
Here is my question: Has any other non-carpenter type put together an editing workstation they really like, that’s spacious, ergonomically acceptable, STURDY, and suited to the editing life? And if so, do you have any suggestions on design, materials, and sources for materials (keeping in mind my criteria laid out above)?
Thanks a million.
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