Ok, I’ll admit it: my work cubes have gotten downright boring. Compared to Cube 1.0, with it’s crazy plant life and magnets all over the places, my latest cube was about as bland as it could be.

So after moving to the downtown office to take on a new job within MP, I knew I wanted to come up with something different… something to push the envelope a bit…

And with that, I give you Cube 3.0:

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4 Responses To “Pimp My Cube!”

1. Raymond   2008.11.17, 10:23 am
   

   Ha ha. I absolutely love it. I am simultaneously impressed by the ingenuity and concerned for your status among the rank and file! I’m interested in hearing the reaction. Hope this series continues.

2. randi   2008.11.17, 2:54 pm
   

   Looks nice, but I think you have too much time on your hands. :)

3. Soland   2008.11.17, 10:11 pm
   

   I noticed you used interlocking closet floor planks. By any chance are those cedar? Good work on the craftsmanship. I bet you could hire yourself out on weekends to renovate other people’s cubicles in the greater downtown area. Hopefully you don’t need a contractor’s license ;)

   You’ve almost got a hunting lodge theme going on. Got any game trophies to put on the wall? Since it’s a small lodge, you should have appropriately small trophies… like a few perch or a jackalope. Also, you could give your desktop a wood grain look with some contact paper.

4. nhelder   2008.11.18, 10:00 am
   

   So far, the reaction has been universally good - lots of requests for similar remodels to be done to other’s cubes, though I suspect most of those are in jest. ;-)

   The paneling used is called “Pacific Knotty Cedar” - it’s pretty thin and the knots aren’t entirely smooth, so I’m not sure that it’s intended for flooring, but probably would work just fine in a closet (assuming you don’t walk around in your closet a lot).

   A jackalope mount would be pretty funny. Other suggestions have included parquet flooring, a throw rug, a corner electric fireplace, and a sheet of poly to drape over the top of the cube and turn it in to a sauna. So we’ll have to see, maybe somewhere down the line there will be other additions. :-)

   (Hindsight: it would have been really funny if I had done all this to someone _else’s_ cube!)

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