I spend a hellova lot of time working from home. When I worked in an office the only thing I had to be concerned about was how many colourful pens were in my penpot, or how many snacks I had stashed away in my drawer, but when you start working from home suddenly your surrounding environment makes all the difference. For the last (nearly) five years I've focused on keeping my office clean and tidy, but paid little other attention to what was going on around me; my furniture was mis-matched, there was no colour scheme to be had and often the room turned into a dumping ground for everything else I didn't want lingering around the flat. When we moved last year everything just got put away to help create some level of order as soon as possible, so I spent little to no time actually organising my working environment into what I wanted it to be; skipping forward a few months and it started to become a place I was actively avoiding spending time in.
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