Name: HL (Thoughtworthy Co)

Location: Singapore

Occupation: Content Creator

Room size: 13,6 m² (146 ft²)

Cost of the setup: ~$1,5K

Social media: Instagram, YouTube

Hello! Tell us a bit about yourself

Hi! My name is HL, and I’m from sunny Singapore.

My husband, Glo, and I run the YouTube channel Thoughtworthy Co.

Glo was actually the one who started Thoughtworthy Co back around 2015. Our goal has always been to spread the message of health and happiness.

Back then, the company looked very different.

For a few years, we did fitness and nutrition coaching, but it wasn’t until 2019 when we started creating content on YouTube, that we finally caught a break, which helped to solidify our vision and identity.

A shared home office setup featuring a floor desk and floor chair
“On top of designing a minimalist workspace that’s aesthetic and productive, why not make sure that it’s helping us to take care of our body at the same time?” say HL and Glo

My side of the story is that I’ve never been the entrepreneurial type.

I studied hard, graduated with a degree, and worked in sales and marketing for a number of years.

I used to imagine my life would be smooth-sailing and without too many surprises. But then things got really exhausting, and both my physical and mental health suffered.

It was around then that Glo enticed me into joining his passion project.

Feeling jaded, with my guard down and the beautiful image of being my own boss, I accepted the offer under the assumption that he knew what he was doing.

My life has been a roller-coaster ever since.

In all seriousness though, in Glo’s defence, you can never know what you’re doing when it comes to entrepreneurship. A roller-coaster isn’t too bad either.

It has still been exhausting with plenty of ups and downs, but my physical and mental health has never been better.

I would never even have imagined being an entrepreneur or content creator if I didn’t have a reliable, adaptable partner at the helm.

Take us through your setup

Item Model
Monitor Samsung S24F350
Mini PC Minisforum EliteMini HM90
Keyboard NuPhy TES68, AKKO CS Ocean Blue switches, 9009 PBT keycaps
Mouse Logitech M590
Desk mat Grovemade Leather Desk Pad
Speakers IKEA Eneby Portable Bluetooth Speaker
Tablet XP-Pen Artist 12 Pro
Foldable riser Generic from Amazon
Vertical laptop stand Generic from Amazon
Desk organiser MUJI ½ File Box
Floor desk IKEA Lisabo Coffee Table
Floor chair MUJI Floor Chair

We live in a 65 m², two-bedroom apartment.

We use the larger room (about 13,4 m²) as our home office.

Typically in Singapore, this room is the master bedroom. But we chose to squeeze our bed and wardrobe into the smaller bedroom since we spend most of the time in that room unconscious anyway.

Perhaps, the most striking feature of our setups is that we use floor desks and chairs.

We explain the reasons why in a couple of our videos on our channel.

A furniture-free home office
Both HL and her husband Glo aim to practice furniture-free living

It was difficult to find a desk that was the height we wanted, so what we did was shorten the legs of an IKEA coffee table. It turned out quite well.

The main seating is a floor chair from Muji. But we switch around a lot, and sometimes, we’ll just sit on a mat or a yoga block.

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The rest of the setup got a small makeover recently with the help of my tech support. (Which is Glo. Any technical information/explanation from here on out, I got from him!)

The idea was to have some contrast between our desks to reflect our different personalities.

So while he has a mostly-black setup, my new setup was to have a slightly more vibrant colour palette.