{"id":46007,"date":"2018-07-23T22:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T02:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46007"},"modified":"2020-08-07T22:42:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T02:42:45","slug":"office-space-ing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46007","title":{"rendered":"Office Space-ing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s only been a year and chance since I moved into my house, but I haven\u2019t really done anything with my office.\u00a0 Sure, I made and installed my wall of belts, and hung a few frames on the walls, in addition to positioning the futon and setting up a space for my computer.\u00a0 But I still had a lot of boxes sitting in the closet along with general ideas for lots of little trinkets and nerdy figurines that I had imagined displaying in whatever room I\u2019d designate as my office, that I simply never bothered really getting to.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another thing I decided to do while mythical gf was out of the country was to finally do something with my office space, and get it to a point beyond where it was just a whole bunch of boxes stacked in a corner with just a computer and a wall of wrestling belts.\u00a0 A few posts ago, I touched on the hanging wall shelves that I had put together, which are in place and I\u2019m generally happy with, even though I underestimated a little bit just how many Rito figures that I had and how much space they\u2019d take up.<\/span><\/p>\n

So among the things not making the cut of the above picture are two shelves that I purchased and installed; neither are particularly impressive things, but more like essentials in order to get a degree of organization for all my various personal effects.\u00a0 The obstacle I faced with my primary shelf was that I had some general dimensions that I did not want to exceed in any capacity so that I could retain as much open floor space as possible but still be able to have a place to hold some shit.<\/span><\/p>\n

At first, I had resigned myself that storage cubes would be the most logical shelving solution for what I had in mind, but after a lot of digging on various sites, it was Amazon of all places where I found this shelf<\/a> that fit into my dimensional parameters, and definitely looked like it had way more character than the cubes that just about everyone in my generation has from Ikea, Target or Walmart.\u00a0 Not to mention I loved the faux-incomplete half edges on opposite ends that definitely gives it some personality as well flexibility in case something is a little wider than the surface area.<\/span><\/p>\n

I only needed one row and the top to display stuff like nice figures and photo frames, and I didn\u2019t have a lot of printed materials that exceeded the smaller shelf spaces, that didn\u2019t quite fit into my library shelf elsewhere, so that left the entire bottom row available for general storage.\u00a0 I got these storage bins<\/a> to store shit like camera equipment, electronic peripherals and art supplies, but also looking a little bit nicer than the army of cardboard printer paper boxes they\u2019d all been sitting in previously.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Also not pictured is this wall shelf<\/a> that I hung to the wall in a narrow space, as a place to fit a variety of smaller figurines and collectible things, that I don\u2019t have the space to put them on my current desk table.\u00a0 I like how dynamic it looked, and it has a Pieter Mondrian<\/a>-like inspiration to it that jived with my tastes for this space.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now to those people who aren\u2019t really wrestling fans and aren\u2019t immediately drawn to the belt wall might not notice, but the wall is actually different than the last time I ever posted a photograph of it; there are more belts on it.\u00a0 A long time ago, after I secured an ECW Tag Team Championship replica, I told myself that ten belts was a nice round number, and that I should probably stop.\u00a0 The belts are definitely not at all cheap, and it\u2019s not lost on me that as much as I love them, they\u2019re really kind of worthless overall.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then over the last few years in particular, I\u2019ve grown quite fond of NXT as well as much of New Japan Pro Wrestling as I can get without having to pay for it.\u00a0 I remember watching the Johnny Gargano vs. Andrade Cien Almas<\/a> match back at TakeOver: Philadelphia and immediately telling myself that I should get an NXT championship replica.\u00a0 And as much as I\u2019ve grown to resent Bullet Club today, I\u2019m not going to deny that I think Kenny Omega is a pretty incredible performer and his trifecta of matches with Kazuchika Okada over the IWGP World Championship made it very easy to be inspired to want to add that belt to my collection as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Long story short, I got replicas of both.\u00a0 I did some freelance a while back so that I could have some actual fuck-you-money to do whatever the hell I wanted to with it, and ultimately I wanted something tangible and something I would enjoy as long as possible, and I\u2019m a pretty simple person so the answer was obviously moar belts.\u00a0 So I got replicas of both belts, and they\u2019re now up on the wall as well; I had to take all of the belts down to reconfigure, but I got them up and they\u2019re all fairly reasonably spaced to look consistent and deliberate.<\/span><\/p>\n

The biggest thing is obviously the gigantic Jinx on the wall, but that\u2019s naturally the point.\u00a0 I had thought about what I wanted to put on that particular wall and frankly it had stumped me for a while.\u00a0 I debated on getting some oversized portraits of like cityscapes of like Atlanta, or Seoul or any place that I could have some relation with, but one, I couldn\u2019t find any that I really liked, and two, even if I had, they would\u2019ve been balls expensive.\u00a0 And then I thought that I didn\u2019t want any more framed stuff on the wall, because I already had a ton, and the cost of frames was getting expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think it was seeing David Choe<\/a> on Ugly Delicious<\/em> that made me start thinking mural, and then I couldn\u2019t get the idea out of my head.\u00a0 A mural would definitely be something that was different; but then I remembered that I don\u2019t have a lot of confidence in my traditional illustrative and painting abilities, and that committing to trying to do my own mural seemed like a gargantuan undertaking.\u00a0 I also don\u2019t exactly have Facebook stock or any form of lucrative compensation to offer someone to do it for me, either so the idea was starting to lose steam.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then I thought about large scale adhesive printing.\u00a0 I could then pick something<\/em> that looked cool, not have to<\/em> design, draw and color it myself, have it printed, and then simply slap it onto the wall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, this itself took a considerable amount of time because I\u2019m sometimes indecisive and overthink things, and I analyze things a million times to make sure that my opinions don\u2019t change too much over time.\u00a0 But looking through folders of saved images throughout the years, I came across this picture of Jinx that I always loved, because it was like a perfect blend of a character I still love, colors, sass and personality; not to mention that the general proportions of the image appeared to fit in the space I wanted to have a graphic for.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t take long for me to simply pull the trigger on this image, but naturally it took a little longer to pick a company that could print in this size and not sexually assault my wallet in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I will say that I\u2019m not 100% satisfied with the quality of my graphic, as even after just the first day, the adhesion quality is definitely not up to satisfaction.\u00a0 I did have a fix for it that is working, but this is probably what I get for being swayed by cost, although there\u2019s no guarantee that any other company would\u2019ve done any better.\u00a0 But for that reason, I\u2019m not going to link to them, because I don\u2019t really wish to support them any further beyond my original business.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, I am happy with how the overall product looks when it\u2019s at its best.\u00a0 It fills the wall space as perfect as I had measured it, and it\u2019s colorful and sassy and it has a lot of personality all wrapped into a character I\u2019ve always enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a whole, I\u2019m happy to have worked on my office some, and I\u2019m generally very pleased with how it looks now.\u00a0 The only thing left is to find some sort of shelving solutions for the closet in the room, so that I can have an efficient place to store actual work and important papers, as well as all the other things that are meant to go into closets and not be on display.\u00a0 But I did spend a little bit of coin on doing this much, and I\u2019m going to have to wait a little bit before going forward with the closet.\u00a0 Hopefully, that won\u2019t take another year before I decide to get to it, but then again this is my house; what\u2019s the rush?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s only been a year and chance since I moved into my house, but I haven\u2019t really done anything with my office.\u00a0 Sure, I made and installed my wall of belts, and hung a few frames on the walls, in addition to positioning the futon and setting up a space for my computer.\u00a0 But I … Continue reading Office Space-ing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,151,76,121,91,25],"class_list":["post-46007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-art","tag-blets","tag-geeks","tag-homeownership","tag-pf","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46009,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46007\/revisions\/46009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}