Currently my home workspace is a dining room table! Looking for home office inspo, but it can be hard with Chicago Apt sizes and layouts. Who wants to share or show off their setup?

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8 months at the kitchen table gang checking in ✊🏼

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How have you survived 8 months at the dining table? Just buy an autonomous desk and a $200 monitor and put it in your office/room and call it done.

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I am in 600sqft apt in Chicago as well, here is my set up, frankly I don’t have tv, so my desk is in that corner in my living room!

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8 months at the kitchen table 🙋🏼‍♀️ just bought a two bedroom condo... Now to furnish the office!

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I have survived 8 months at my kitchen table.

I am a survivor and will continue to be unless someone drops some real "small apartment/tiny home" suggestions up in here.

They sell all kinds of desks- how small do you need it to be?

Do you have another space you’re looking at carving out? Or are you wanting to turn your dining room into an office? And does that mean get rid of table or use it as a desk but with a better setup, chair etc.? (Some dining room tables make great desks, add a rolling cart for work supplies, etc.

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