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L-shaped Desk Setup in Essex, UK

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    • July 18, 2021
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    L-shaped Desk Setup in Essex, UK
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    Name: Ben Garratt

    Location: Westcliff-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom

    Occupation: Digital Product Designer, Co-Founder of Fare Studio

    Room size: 4,95 m² (53,28 ft²)

    Cost of the setup: $2,5K — without tech (desk, peripherals, paint, chair etc.), £11,2K — with tech (PC, Mac, Hifi + the above).

    Social media: Instagram, Twitter

    Hey, Ben! Tell us a bit about yourself

    Hey, I’m Ben, I am a digital product designer who's recently moved from East London to Westcliff-On-Sea in Essex.

    Leaving London was something we had never considered until remote working became much more normal for people in the tech/design world.

    I feel really lucky that it worked out that way for us.

    London is a great city but after nearly ten years of renting, we wanted a space to call our own.

    Being able to afford that in London would have required a lot of borrowing and a big mortgage, which is all a bit scary and would have had me tied to the sort of jobs I was doing before.

    There is a lot of natural light coming through the window. “I enjoy being able to peer over the top of my monitor to the outside world”
    There is a lot of natural light coming through the window. “I enjoy being able to peer over the top of my monitor to the outside world”

    Until recently, I was the Head of Design at a fintech app called Cleo, but about two months ago I joined up with a mate of mine to launch our agency, Fare Studio. We work on all sorts of things, including app and website design and branding projects mainly.

    I’m a big coffee enthusiast. There are a couple of hints at that in my space! We have a Sage dual boiler espresso machine and a Niche Zero grinder and use that to make either flat whites or long blacks or pour-over from a V60.

    We drink mainly lighter roasted speciality coffee from all sorts of roasters around the UK and Europe. Some favourites include Square Mile, Workshop, Bailies, Coffee Collective, Colonna and Barn.

    I’ve been documenting some of the great coffee we have been enjoying specifically during the lockdown last year.

    Ben’s space features industrial-inspired shelving and lighting. The room is decorated with personal items such as posters, prints, and figures

    I play tennis regularly and I’m ageing but still an enthusiastic PC gamer. I enjoy a wide range of games from competitive esports titles like CS: GO and Valorant through to Football manager.

    I’m also a keen but average photographer, you can check out some photos over on Unsplash.

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    Item Model
    Monitor Dell
    Monitor light bar BenQ ScreenBar
    Laptop MacBook
    Mouse Apple Magic Mouse
    Keyboard Logitech MX Keys
    Desk mat Logitech MX Keys
    Speakers DALI - Oberon 1
    Amplifier Cambridge Audio AXA35
    Analogue converter Cambridge Audio DacMagic 100
    Chair Humanscale Liberty Task Chair
    Table top Worktop Express
    Table legs IKEA OLOV
    Drawers IKEA ALEX
    Pegboard IKEA SKÅDIS
    Desktop computer
    Case NZXT H710i
    Motherboard ASUS ROG Strix Z490-E
    CPU i7-10700K
    GPU ASUS TUF RTX 3080
    RAM 32GB G.Skill Trident Z 3600
    SSD 2× Samsung 1TB 970 EVO
    Cooler NZXT Kraken Z73

    We moved into our Edwardian arts and crafts period terrace house in Westcliff-On-Sea back in April 2021.

    The house is small, but for us, the increase in space has been pretty wild. I’d started planning what I would do with the small third bedroom at the front of the house a while before we moved.

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