Allocating storage

We've had the desk area installed in Gracie for a couple of years but have felt that we were not effectively using the storage capabilities under the desk... when we were working on inventorying some of the items in the storage bays underneath, we remembered how we had used a metal storage shelving unit in two pieces, and decided to try to do the same under the desk.

We got the shelving unit from Home Depot, and decided to try putting it under the desk. In doing so, we realized that we had issues with various cords that are present under the desk that we needed to deal with. We ordered an under-desk basket that we decided to install...

It is hard to work under the desk as it is not quite tall enough to sit up under. It does have the ability to raise the desk with just the push of a button, so we raised it a little, but were limited by the valences around the windows on how high it could go. Here you can see the basket under the desk with the power supply in it, but the cords to plug into the power supply are not yet connected.

Laying down on the job, coiling up cords and getting components plugged in...

Here you can see most of the cords plugged in, but at this point we had decided to move the NAS (Network Attached Storage) device to the floor (it had been on the desk) and Carl was now under the desk doing the hookups for that.

We still have some additional tasks to do -- getting storage boxes that fit onto the shelving units -- but we feel that we have more options in what we can put there and keeping it more organized!