Life Hackery

The workstation is an extension of your personality. You can arrange your cubicle depending on your interests or how you want other people to picture you as an individual.

Designing your workstation can be fun, much like customizing a corner of your room or setting a cool theme for your car. Remember, you can have it your way when designing your workstation as long as you do not violate any of your company’s policies. Get started today. Here are 13 cool ideas you can try to customize your office workstation:

1. Toy Gallery – For toy collectors, you can bring some of your action figures in the office and arrange them on your workstation. Line them up around your computer to make your cubicle look like a toy gallery. Put the small toys on top of your computer monitor to promote the theme even further. Feel free to recreate your favorite scenes from a movie or TV cartoon series.

2. Collage – People usually keep snapshots of important people in their lives to keep them inspired while working. Level up by making a collage out of your pictures. You can manually paste the arrangements yourself or you can use programs like Adobe Photoshop to experiment on your collage. If you are the artistic type, you can cut words or letters from magazines and paste them on your collage to form unique and striking statements and messages.

3. The Music Fan Shrine – Hardcore music fans usually go gaga over their favorite artists. Take that hyped feeling with you to the office by decorating your cubicle with small posters and pictures of rock bands and singers. You can also stick blank CDs on the walls of your cubicle. When your coworkers see your station, they will immediately know that you are the office’s ultimate music geek.

4. Car-Themed Cubicle – Car-themed cubicles are popular, given that most people love automobiles. Display your car models on select corners and affix posters of supercars on cubicle walls.

5. Cigarette Case Collection – Adventurous smokers are known to try different brands of cigarettes just to satisfy their curiosities. Instead of throwing their used packs of cigarettes, they stack the colorful cartons on their desks. Most cigarette cases are well-styled, enhancing the aesthetics of their workstations. If you are a smoker, you are welcome to follow suit.

6. As Simple as a Picture Frame – The picture frame may be a cliché in styling office cubicles, but just like any other cliché, its appeal is timeless. Bring several picture frames for your pictures and neatly align them on your desk. To increase its appeal, you can bring four sets of frames. One is solely dedicated to your pictures, a second one for your family, a third for your friends and the last one will be for your romantic partner.

7. The Game Cube – Game boards are fun things to have in the office. Turn your workstation into an office game room by bringing various game boards in your cubicle. Stack them neatly behind your computer and bring them out whenever your team is bored with office work.

8. Mini-Office Theater – Home theaters are cool because they recreate the cinematic feel of movie theaters in your home. You can do the same with your office cubicle. Jack up the speakers of your computer then scatter the surround sound units on the far ends of the workstation. Of course, you can only use this option if your company permits moderately loud sounds. Then again, after 5PM, you can probably do whatever you want in the office.

9. Biker Base – What happens if you combine a biker’s helmet, bike posters, and red bandannas to a nice wooden desk? You’d probably get one of the coolest workstations in the office. With such a cubicle, you have every excuse to walk around the office with a swagger. You should know that every biker is a bad arse at heart.

10. The Oriental Corner – Oriental theme lovers rejoice! You can style your cubicle like a Japanese home by bringing small items made from bamboo. Place your pictures in bamboo frames and arrange tiny bamboo structures on your desk. Add several origami, bonsai plants and perhaps a small artificial fountain if your cubicle is spacious.

11. Shrine for Crushable Celebrities – Are you in love with a certain celebrity? You might as well make your cubicle your personal swooning post. Post the sexiest pictures of your crush on top of the monitor and throughout your desk. Whenever you feel tired, all you need to do is focus on those pictures. You will instantly feel recharged. Just switch sets when your celebrity crush finds a romantic partner.

12. Superhero Gallery – If you are a graphic novel enthusiast, you can stack your collection in one corner of your cubicle. Place a few superhero action figures on your computer monitor, then print the pictures of your favorite superheroes. Surround your workstation with those pictures and place a stack of superhero trading cards in a visible area. Every comic book fan in the office will worship your workstation in no time.

13. Star Wars Station – Every office has at least one Star Wars freak. If you are the office’s self proclaimed Jedi Master, you might as well place Star Wars action figures and vehicles on your workstation. Dedicate a corner for your collection of Star Wars novels. Now, reserve the section beside your computer keyboard for your very own light saber. Your colleagues will then recognize that the force is with you.

As they say, you can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can certainly judge office workers just by looking at their workstations. You might as well make a good impression on everyone by giving more personality to your work space.