My new coin office - updated with finished photos

coppercoins

For months my wife has been complaining about my "coin room" and how messy it has become due to all the work I've been doing on the site, coins, web development in general, etc. Working from a single 4 foot wide computer table with a single hutch cabinet with a few shelves built into a closet, it's no wonder I couldn't find room to fit over half a million coins.

Well, this past month I finally got a butt load of her chatter and told her to put up or shut up. So she asked me how much I would need to completely organize my operation. I told her, designed what I wanted, and started building it. Now remember, I started with about 4 feet of table space and about 10 feet of shelving. After careful consideration, design work, and a lot of labor in the wood shop, I ended up with a desk that's 9 1/2 feet long with six drawers measuring 30x18x6 or greater, and 21 linear feet of cabinet shelf space. WHOA! I don't do anything half-arsed.

I built this in about two weeks, painted the room to match my taste (red ochre with faux dappling of bronze and brown), and installed it Tuesday. The following photos were taken when the project was completed and I had just started moving into it. I still have yet to complete another 10 linear feet of shelving to sit on the back third of the desktops (for books, etc.), but this is what it looked like when it was first installed.

my new desk

I also have track lighting to install in the room and cabinet-flush lighting to install - in other words, it's not complete, but you get the idea of what I've got going here.

Don't I have a nice wife? LOL!

ksteelheader

I like. That is really nice Chuck. I will admit that the colors are much nicer than I imagined from your color description.........Ken

satootoko

Even if they are all copper pennies, you have at least $5,000 face value, and we all know the real value is a whole bunch more - which explains my sincere hope that (1) you don't keep them all in that office and (2) you never, never, never reveal enough about where you live to let someone figure out your exact address.

VonZipper

Really nice, I like it!

FC57Coins

Gee Copper - straight lines, right angles - whew! how... pedestrian!!! Now real furniture hasn't been made since Louis XIV!!!

Sorry - couldn't resist! Great office!

TheNumish

It looks so nice and clean right now. Show us a picture of it in six months after you have all your coins piled up all over the place. Then I'll feel right at home.

LucyBop

Wow!!! Just think of all the Frankies you can have on that big ol desk!!!!

coppercoins

Satootoko - I'm covered. Not only can you not see the floor safe I'm standing in front of but you can't see the other larger safe in my garage. You also can't see the nice doggie. All of the "better" stuff is locked and bolted, as is anything I borrow from anyone else.

The lower cabinets are used to store "current" searching stock - rolls that are generally worth less than $3 each on a good day, and many of them are simply face value worth. Frankly it's more or less stuff that people would waste time and break their back trying to take for what it's worth. I doubt a burglar would have a clue what to do with what they found in my house, if they got past the alarm and the doggie.

Secondarily, I don't use my home address for anything related to my coins. I have a PO box for that.

The many upper cabinets are to take care of printer paper, storage media (discs, diskettes), office supplies, coin supplies, and my business ledgers. Yes, I need that much space.

Edited to add: This office will also be used for my web development business and to write, print, and distribute my book (and possibly others to come in the future)...so it's not just a place to collect and store coins.

airplanenut

May I suggest a big cushy chair, as well?

coppercoins

Sorry, that's another thing I didn't mention. I hastily took those pics the day I installed the cabinets....basically the office isn't set up yet. I have a different chair for the occasion, that one is there to test the desk height....the step ladder doesn't stay either. It's gone now, I had it there to finish up some trim work on the painting.

Dog97

Ohhhhhh decorater light switch......
It looks really snazzy like what my cabinet man does in the custom homes I build.
My own workstation is a used 7' kitchen bar top I snagged from a remodel I did for somebody set on a base cabinet I built from 2x4s and covered with used paneling I snagged from a remodel. Mine looks like it came from the landfill including the pile of junk on it piled high as my tower.
Great job!!!

stman

<< <i>Ohhhhhh decorater light switch...... >>




LMAO

coppercoins

Sorry guys...the switch goes when I install the dimmer for the track lighting coming next week. The track lighting will have five 20W halogen bulbs. As you can tell, I rather like dark places with warm, comfortable colors. I guess it comes from 20 years of working in the sanitary lighting condition of mainframe computer rooms. Fluorescent lights everywhere and all beige, white, or blue equipment...I wanted my home office to be a stark contrast to what I have to deal with at my regular job daily.

fantasiize

If there was ever a good reason for empty nest/marriage of a child and moving out, it would be my coin room. It is in the planning, with my current project plan spanning 2 to 12 years (remembering the line from Animal House "... damn, 10 years of College, down the drain ...").

My close friend is a cabinet maker, so I may opt for something radical like Corian tops with a built in safe and multiple, glass enclosed drawers to show-off some collections.

coppercoins

<< <i>If there was ever a good reason for empty nest/marriage of a child and moving out, it would be my coin room. It is in the planning, with my current project plan spanning 2 to 12 years (remembering the line from Animal House "... damn, 10 years of College, down the drain ...").

My close friend is a cabinet maker, so I may opt for something radical like Corian tops with a built in safe and multiple, glass enclosed drawers to show-off some collections. >>



Now that would way outdo my endeavor, but I was building on a budget. Even what you see (along with the painting, lighting (to come), and shelving (to come)) is an all-told $800-$900....not cheap by my standards. What you are describing would cost double that, at least.

fantasiize

Two key comments 2 to 12 years (plenty of time to plan/save) and close friend will build it (wholesale prices, not retail) AND I won't help him (he usually charges me more when I help him).

coppercoins

Yes, definately key comments there. Mine was designed, built, finished, walls painted, (and future) lights installed, shelving completed, in four weeks time. Much different story completely, but I have constraints of a continuing business that needed the room fast. Perhaps sometime in the future I will expand the idea and rebuild with much more money, but like your project, that will take time.

One thing I am intending on doing is building a cabinet for 2.5 inch drawers for my inventory. It will be 36 inches wide, 24 inches deep, and around 50 inches high. Basically like a chest of drawers or a library card file cabinet, only this one will have around 15 drawers and the capability of holding 6,120 linear inches of flipped or 2x2 holdered coins. Yes, I need that much, just for the cheap stuff.

Bear

Great desk and office, makes my corner of the house look like a garbage dump.

Way to go. Of course if I ever redid my coin room, instead of panaled walls,

I probably would have padded walls. Hurts less when you bang your head against them.

aeast236

after looking at that i am almost embarrased about the space that I have...I couldn't possibly show a pic of this mess. I have ample room for all that I do in my office...however I am told that my office will be moving downstairs. Apparently the office that I have now will be becoming the baby room in the future.
Very nice work on your office. I love the colors (makes sense with the area of your expertise).

-Aaron

airplanenut

My coins are in my room... no coin room yet We'll just wait until I have my own home

coppercoins

Check the link again - I have the finished project photos done. If necessary, reload the page to see them. Enjoy - I know I do!

cosmicdebris

Awesome desk and setup you got there.

One of these days I want to buy this one: