G'day Ozbies!
Just got offered a newish role at work and have been set aside a $500 budget to kit out a small office.
Basically just need a desk and chair, but I'm wanting the money to go far, also having a little leftover for extras would be a bonus. It'd be sweet also to support some smaller, Melbourne based business instead of going to a chain like Officeworks. Defo up for second hand stuff too!
Any and all advice would be super duper appreciated ✌️
Ryan
It's at work, so an office office I guess.. It'll be used for maybe 4-5 hours a week max, in a dusty little space in a flour mill. So definitely doesn't need to be fancy haha
Flour mill, sounds rustic.
A decent office chair is going to cost close if not more than $500
Doesn't need to be decent, plenty online that I can see between $200-300..?
If you have a long sitting job, don't cheap out on chair. Long term impacts of bad sitting is very high.
If my work offer this, i would use the money for a good chair. Rest everything can be bought cheaply from fb marketplace.
As bargainhunteroz said a chair is one thing you never want to cheap out on. If you do you will end up spending triple as much on a chiropractor every couple of weeks.
look on FB Marketplace
Midnight Servo raid for milk crate seating.
Local electrical wholesaler for spare unwanted giant cable drum for table.
Local construction site for 6 cinder blocks meant for kids hospital , repurposed for shelving when combined with some plywood sheets swiped from kurbside pickup.
Meat pie and farmers union iced coffee because all the run around deserves a good smoko feed.
Pocket the $490 and feel good about saving the world with recycling/reusing/repurposing.
IKEA desk of choice and one of their $200 chair. Simples.
This.
Plus a can of spray adhesive and tub of glitter.
I would also suggest a laptop stand (which consequently means a keyboard and mouse) if you don't have a second screen.
Home office, or office office?