How to rearrange furniture in bedroom/home office

[Anonymous]

My bedroom is my home office. The way I have it arranged now, the desk and cabinet that holds office stuff and printer are along one wall. It fits well, but if I don’t blurr my background, you can see my bed. That’s not working out for me. Can you tell me ideas for how to rearrange a square room to make more separation between bed and desk or to at least make it so that you can’t see the bed on a zoom?

[Anonymous]

What size bed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What size bed?

Full.

[Anonymous]

Can you place your desk where you now have a nightstand? This would avoid the bed showing on camera.

[Anonymous]

Folding screen?

[Anonymous]

Can you place your desk in the middle of the room but beside your bed into the room with the chair against the wall beside the bed and the desk in front of it

Or

Desk at foot end of bed and chair facing bed so camera will face wall

[Anonymous]

Room dimensions approx and what furniture is all there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you place your desk where you now have a nightstand? This would avoid the bed showing on camera.

This is OP. I think this is what I need to do. I dislike the idea of sleeping so close to work, but I suppose that’s silly. I’ve been sleeping looking at my work computer for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can you place your desk where you now have a nightstand? This would avoid the bed showing on camera.

This is OP. I think this is what I need to do. I dislike the idea of sleeping so close to work, but I suppose that’s silly. I’ve been sleeping looking at my work computer for years.

NP and I was going to suggest same. And yes you probably stare at your work area more now from your bed than you will sleeping next to it, but you could stick a plant on the corner of your desk adjacent to your bed to “screen” your desk when in bed.

[Anonymous]

Replace your bed with a Murphy bed. You can get Murphy beds that fold up and have a pop-up desk on the underside. You have some clearance, so as long as you don't have a lot of tall items on your desk, you can leave things on the desk and fold down the Murphy bed and when you open it up again, you can pick up where you left off. These are a bit on the pricy side (most are over $2K).

Alternatively, you can get standalone Murphy beds for under $1K (I've seen some under $500) that just fold up and look like a cabinet. You can have the same layout you currently have and when you know you have a meeting, you just fold up the bed and it looks like a cabinet on the wall.

[Anonymous]

I don't blame you for not wanting to have your office in your bedroom. It's very bad Feng Shui. Can you use a corner in your living or dining space? Maybe pick up your laptop and walk into a different room for Zoom calls? The bedroom is very important, and I would avoid arranging it for work if at all possible.