the best way to place a desk in a home offices of different sizes according to Feng shui 

I was watching this video at my desk but I got attacked by birds, a monkey stole my laptop and I got shot by a sniper. I’m definitely moving my desk!

"Snipers, very famous" is an all time line 😂

As an IT specialist who has been working in home office ever since the first lockdown, I'm really happy that none of your suggestions violate the most important rule for desk ergonomics: Never sit directly facing the window. Having the window to the side is ideal. I was really curious and on the fense about whether you (/Feng Shui) would respect that rule and I'm pleasantly surprised that it is compatible! 👍

I had a lot of trouble with snipers before, so this video comes in handy. And now you know!

Love the different size room options you provided ! Let's see a bedroom version of this! And living room!

It is magic I think. I put my desk in the command position in January, and since then my life has come more and more together one thing at a time. This has been the coolest year of my life so far. :)

every time you talk about having your back to the door and having things and people attack you from behind, i always took it metaphorically. But i just realized that I currently sit with my back to the door and my girlfriend constantly will tiptoe into the room to try and scare me while im working

I was so happy when he demonstrated an even smaller room organization at 4:45! My room is like that

This video came in handy! I’ve been trying to re-arrange my sewing room for ages and nothing felt like it was working. I decided to try command position for my machine table and IT WORKS. From a purely practical perspective, I now get light from the window directly on my work instead of my face but on a feeling perspective, it makes the room feel more anchored despite a large table being in the middle of the room. Here’s to hoping it will up my creativity and production!

can we also appreciate how the lighting is exactly like it should be from the windows? amazing. will definitely keep these concepts in mind when doing my new home office soon

My desk is in a great place, but I spend all my time watching videos like this on RU-vid, so I'm broke

I just re-did my office this weekend and it works this way. It is SO much better. I now have a view of the window and of the door. I feel safer. We will do a guest murphy bed in bottom right corner and desk is in comand position over by window

You have a great sense of humor! Your videos are not only informative, but very enjoyable!

It is very helpful, thank you! Actually, there are ridiculous valiants of the desk position in "open offices". I'm glad to hear that this trend is coming to an end, but still in countries where trends come in slowly, there is still that idiotic placing of furniture that only one or two workers are actually in a command position and the rest are completely not capable of working because of distractions and feeling vulnerable. Also about the windows. Yes, historically windows in China had no glass and anything agile could potentially came in. But now the biggest concern is the feeling of security and privacy. If you sit back to window, you just don't know who is watching or filming the stuff you do in your browser) I would much appreciate if you make a video about cafes and coworkings, how to place chairs and tables (in one big room with door and big windows on the facade, and the barista's table on the side), so as many people as possible could feel themselves comfortable and secure. I know it seems impossible, but somehow people love work in the cafes.

man, I had no idea that having my desk facing the window (with me looking out of it) was such a bad choice! Might have to rearrange my room a little... Update: rearranged my room so it's not in front of the window anymore and a few other things, and the energy of the room feels more comfortable and concentrated!! Thank you for the advice!

For the mid size room, I think there is one even better option: keep the desk in the command position but move it up against the window wall, so that the chair is in the corner opposite the door. This creates a bit of a nook, but it's still freely accessible from one side and it gives you a great view of both the door and the window. You also have a solid wall in the back.

Thank you for validating my everpresent urge to place the desk facing the room instead of a wall or window! I've hated this standard since I can remember. :D

Thank you for this video! My sons are 12 and 9 and both want to rearrange their rooms. I am happy to help them do it, as it will mean we have to tidy up, too. I am trying to find the best spots for their desks and seeing all the options really helps!

It doesn't matter how I arrange my home office because I just bring my laptop to the kitchen island and work close to the fridge. 😂😂😂

Thank you! I'm about to build a complete living space in a 6 foot x 8 foot trailer (with two medium/large dogs!) and all your tips for small spaces have really helped me figure out how I want to make things work! (A tip for anyone else doing something like this -- if you want a bed that doesn't take much space, but which doesn't take a bunch of steps to set up either, try a hammock! I'm too ADHD and have low willpower at night so if my bed isn't available I'll have trouble going to bed at all because I'll be too tired to set it up, but with a hammock I can just tie the middle of it up to the rafters during the day, and then to go to bed I just undo one tie and bam I have a bed!)

Your videos have been so helpful for me! When I moved into my new studio apartment I couldn't decide where to place my desk and skeptically placed it in the command position like how you suggest. I've always had my desk up against a wall so it felt unintuitive but it is such a better setup!! I love having my back to the wall and being able to look around my apartment and out the windows :))

I really like this video! I was rearranging my small office and have had the desk in multiple places, it is really true what you say about what ‘feels wrong’ in placement. In the end i arranged it just like you advise here so now its no longer just a feeling what is better but I know why it feels better as well :) Thank you so much for all these kind of weird but super helpfull videos!

love this! super needed this! I've been struggling to place my desk in a 10x10ft room for the last couple of years, it has the same layout as the room that you showed so this is super helpful. The other challenge I have is placing other things in the room (a sleeper sofa and a 6ft wide bookshelf) while also having 4ft wide closet doors on the south wall to the right, which I ideally still need to access I'll be looking out if you ever do a similar video but with a closet in the room 😉

I've been watching these like a hawk because I'll be moving from a very large master suite into a small studio apartment. Right now I have my work and living spaces very well separated out with a corner desk which, instead of putting both corners against a wall, one separates the desk space from the rest of the room. But who can take up that much space in a small studio! So I'm constantly on the hunt for how to make my work space, well... work... in such a tiny living space.

Your videos helped me design my first apartment (living room and work area is a joint space). I still don't get work done cos im just lazy 🤣

thanks for the subtitles! i always have them on and just having it built into the video makes it easier for me to listen.

01:58 Ah yes, everyone knows that snipers can only shoot you when you're not looking in their direction. And monkey and sniper attacks are super common here in Europe as well, so it's best to stay safe!

Thank you for adding the variations...I have an office and guest room combo and this was the exact layout of the room

Love this. I work, exercise, and watch tv in my room. Your ideas help.

Cliff, I have a work space for my soap and fabric dying in the laundry room. I was looking at your desk command position videos today so this is right on time. I get started easily when I'm in deep focus on my work.

I like your theory... one question is that: if I put the desk in the middle of the room (i.e. not touching the wall) how do people usually deal with the power cords etc. for their monitors/computers?

I just love the way you explain these concepts! I learn so much and could listen all day. 😊

My home office is like this but in addition to the window on the back wall, I also have one on the right wall. And then I also have a large closet on the left wall. So I end up having my desk on the same wall as the door because it's the only place I feel comfortable with my back not facing the door, and my back not facing the window on the right which is the one that faces my neighbor's house. End up having my back to the window that faces the backyard and it's the best I can figure out 😅

You really know your stuff, Cliff, aces. These simple explanations bring me a sense of calm

This is the zaniest presentation on this topic that I've ever seen. Having said this, it is very informative so, thank you!

Lately I am helping a friend rearrange and declutter her apartment to improve her mental health and these videos have been super helpful!

Thank you so much for walking us thru all the different scenarios! Now I know how to position my work desk that has to be placed in our guest bedroom.

Thanks for this video! I am currently planning my office and my room is similar to the first option. Since I already watched a lot of your videos, my guess for the command position was right. But it's nice to get confirmation

I've watched your tips enough to already know, and that is the exact setup of my office since last October! By July, I'd earned a promotion. 😎🤑 Thanks for sharing!

Thaaanks!!! I bought an antique desk for my homw office which looks just like your last example and I have been thinking about this and what you would recommend. This is perfect timing!

Ha! My home office is in the exact configuration of your list example (narrow, long room, with two openings, one on the corridor of the apartment, the other to the balcony door from which I can have natural light and air when in summer). I have more space on the left side so I pushed a long desk to the wall and put as much stuff I could on high tablets or wall units. From the corridor, you can barely see the desk, just wide space…. An artist friend came to do a soft mural. I love this space now!

You simply answered the question to my headache…. Having a small office and at the same time a RU-vid studio 😅 Thank you!!!! ❤ Now I know😊

I love your videos. You don't only do the magic, you explain it too

I've been waiting for something like this for a while! awesome!

Oh my gosh, this really inspires me to move my desk when I get back to work. The only available options in both rooms were with my back directly to the door facing busy hallways, and I always felt so tense and distracted. I think I will move some equipment and make my own space in a less stressful part of the room! It's not just me! 😂

Love the long form! Great tips

My office is like the last one. I was meaning to ask about a situation like this so I'm glad I got my answer 😊

What a fabulously helpful video, thank you so much

I adore and appreciate this content so much 😊

Just what I needed! ^_^ Yup, I have the last layout, but with a 45° door. I'll put the desk on the wall closest to the door, so I can see when the cat enter and exit the room, with bookcases on the opposite wall.

Last example is my exact situation and I’m happy I picked the best spot. Now I know!

I hate all the furniture in my room and how it fits so I'm only going to leave the bed and desk... So in a way this is perfect advice

These videos pair so well with your book.

I always use the area rug trick. I've moved 17 times in 20yrs. I have the same rugs I take with me everywhere because they are SO helpful in situations like this. And pictures and curtains. I bet the gypsies knew some about feng shui 😉

This totally helped me with the positoning for my desk. I have a room, like the mid sized room. Door and window has the exact same Position. And i have to say, i kind of have a naturally feng shui😂 i make so much things right🎉

Perfectly timed episode!

When I designed my office 1 year ago, I did the last scenario, with the two desks! I also had space for a bookshelf behind and it's the perfect office. I'm glad it's the best design for the space. I hope it makes the 💸💸 flow 😂

Those pesky snipers!

Man I'd love to see your take on feng shui in a camper van, love the channel!

My office is like the bed situation that he shared. But I've chosen to have my back to the door and my desk facing the window because I really like looking outside while I work! Not the best but I really like the view.

Architecture digest actially has a vidoe of 3 people doing up closet offices and seeing this makes me feel glad about which one was my favorite design 😁

"snipers, very dangerous" 😂😂😂 I feel like if snipers is a concern, your room's feng shui is the last of your worries haha

I like your videos. ❤

The short content is very entertaining. This more in depth stuff satiates my brain tho 😊

Thank you, this was very helpful!! :D

the first example is basically my room, thank you a lot.

Just watching the room shrink over and over again gave me such chills. Can't explain why.

0:49 mans attacked that paper with his spit lmao

You, my friend, perform the best! ❤

Ok, now I know my current setup is quite bad. But we are moving! I thought this command position would be impossible in my future room but I played with the plans and it actually looks good! I never considered this arrangement and the one I've decided on before was again quite bad: facing the wall away from the window and almost facing my back to the door.

This is so helpful! I need to check if there's a video for "student" room general tips as in: bed, desk and closet combo, maybe with an extra little shelf

One thing I found most interesting here - almost all of the points you talk about here from a Feng Shui perspective are also what I naturally gravitate towards/strongly feel like I need from my own neurodivergent perspective (ADHD and autism)! I wonder if there’s a common underlying root to all of this… maybe neurodivergent people somehow have an inherent sense of something like the flow of qi in FS… or maybe it’s the other way around, and what we now refer to as “neurodivergent” brains were present right back at the early developmental stages of FS and were instrumental to how it developed?! That’s ore of an idle thought than anything else though 😊 When I used to go into the office, my first desk was in the exact wrong position and a lot like your first bad examples - directly inside the office room and close to the (open) door, which was either directly to my right or behind me, depending on which way I positioned myself on the L-shaped desk in the corner. And both ways were terrible! One way, I was so frequently disturbed and distracted by the hectic goings-on in the adjoining office (busy IT helpdesk team always on the phone and having drop-in visitors with their IT probs), plus I could see and hear every single thing that went on in both that main open area of the office, and all the people going to and from the other connecting smaller offices… and the other way people would literally sneak up behind me (just by walking quietly, especially if I had headphones on or was really concentrating hard!) and nearly give me a heart attack. Things got moved around and I was then in the diagonal opposite corner - nobody behind me and just a desk opposite mine, with the others way over to the right separated by a walkway, and since the office itself was slightly L shaped, my desk was tucked away a little bit from the open doorway, which was amazing for sound insulation! Plus I could see anyone who came in to our little office room (so no sneaking up), without it being a constant visual/auditory distraction, and with me being far enough from the door with other desks in the way that it never ended up being my “job” to deal with people who came in looking for someone, unless there was literally no one else there, so I could mentally switch off that bit of being on “high alert”. It was so amazing and like a huge weight had been lifted, and I was immediately so much more productive and less stressed! 😍 It all went downhill a couple of years later though, because Management(tm) were convinced we needed to switch rooms in order to get a bit more space for our growing team, and it was like being transported into literal hell for my brain and wellbeing, and also for Feng Shui reasons too, it turns out! I was then in a room with a fully glass wall (and almost permanently open door 😫) that connected on to that busy IT helpdesk area, with a decent sized window on the opposite side where the noise distractions came from tourists and other people walking/boating down the canal right outside, an incredibly annoying very bad busker with a guitar and no musical talents, and some of the loudest and most annoying birds in the world (geese that would walk up and down right outside or swim along honking, flocks of these green parakeets we have in London (which have also followed me to my home now, and they come and squawk at me from the tree outside my window! 😂😆), shrill screeching swifts, etc!). I drew out a floorplan to try and illustrate the problem to my manager because I was struggling to find the words (after I did say in advance it was going to be a nightmare and we shouldn’t do it!), with lots of hectic arrows and annotations like “NOISE!” and “VISUAL COMMOTION!” with sad 😢😭 and worried 😫😩😣 faces drawn in… and I’m just struck by how similar it all is from both neurodivergent and Feng Shui perspectives 😊 (that manager was nice and got it, and shuffled us around in the nightmare room a bit so it was less awful… and we eventually moved back to our proper room, and my proper desk location! Turns out we could absolutely fit all the people in with just a bit of planning, so we could have saved that entire period of trauma 😤😒) I’m coming up on 4 years totally WFH in early Mar 24 (apart from occasional all-hands meetings/events back in the office) and currently fighting like hell not to be forced to go back in to the office one day a week, because that way is madness and stacked against any actual sanity or productivity! I’d definitely rather be at home and struggling with my greenhouse-effect west facing windows (I just went on about this in another comment 😅) than go back to all the commute drama and mental-energy-sapping office environment challenges… and what I should actually be doing is brushing up my CV and finding another job with less rubbish (the office is actually the least of it, but that’s definitely another story!)… but this has been cathartic, thank you 😆😌

I have a slightly silly smaller office room, but I'm still in the command position because I have closets along the wall with the door :) Never been happier!!

I wirk from home in an efficiency apt. My desk is like example #3 with a window to the left of door. To my left is my couch and behind me is my coffee table and then kitchen area. I made my arrangement work by placing flowers on my porch and bird feeders. I can easily open the door, see the hummingbirds and red cardinals and watch my flowers bloom.

I love your videos!

Love this guy!

I work in a room which is very similar to the second-smallest room you show, but the door is in the middle of the wall and a two person bed, which makes placement even more weird. After trying a lot of things, I've found that sitting with my back to the door, window in front, bed in the middle of the room is the best position for me. However, had we had 20cm of extra space the desk would definitely be flipped so it's facing the right wall!

My office has built-in cabinets on two sides, windows on the third, and the only wall is to the right of the door. Consequently, I can pretty much only have my desk sideways to the door, backing the door (facing the window), or backing the window (facing the door). I chose the first because I need to be able to look out both the door and the window to do reception. Alas! Hardly perfect from a feng shui perspective, but as good as I can do, given the cirumstances.

Although I agree with this, and I did follow that logic when I lived with my parents, now I do completely the oposite. As I live alone with my partner there is nobody looking or entering from behind, so I actually have the main door behind me. I also do this because I can concentrate better like this. Even if someone is doing something behind me (like my cat xD) y just throw in some headphones and have a nice calm and static view in front of me. Much easier to work like that than if I could see all movement behind my screen. It's true that it's a pain for videocall backdrops, but I use a filter and thats it.

I'm struggling with re-arranging my home office right now and trying to apply principals of Feng shui. I used to have my back to the door and moving my desk helped my productivity but now I'm in a spot where I have a weird walk around to my desk, bookshelves cutting into the window space, and staring at my office door which is at the top of the stairs. The awkward middle of the room desk is exactly what I'm fighting due to an awkward tiny closet that I don't even use. I made a mock up of my floor space and furniture and am moving them around to see what works, here's hoping I figure out something better soon.

oh nice to know that my desk is actually in the right place! My office room is exactly like the middle size one that you showed ;D

What if you live alone and you can keep the door closed so no one will come and distract you?

This brought back memories of how I've had my desk in different rooms over the years.

I want to send a video or picture of my living room for your advice! I'm in an apartment and limited on options because of the design layout. I'm pretty sure I arranged everything in the best (and somewhat only) way, but seeing your videos now has me questioning! 😂

Great video!

It doesn't really matter how you name system, which you are using for design. Main thing is - common sense in its basic. Great video, thank you!

I love this man

Lol! These videos have me thinking I need to do something with my combination Bedroom, remote work from home office, art studio and personal office.

I have a space I'm gonna be using like an office and the room looks similar. Glad tue wall I picked to sit waa the right one.

I moved my desk around after watching this. My back was initially to the door and I was facing a window. I could not articulate why it did not feel right. Now I am facing the door, with a wall at my back, and window to the side, and it feels much more “protected” as you said. The room feels much more conducive to focusing

He attacked the room with a bit of his spit 0:50 😂

I always thought of feng shui as some old people bullshit. But with your explanation, now I understand that there is also fact and logical way to explain things. It all makes so much sense!

Finally, the sniper returns but it brought new friends : monkey and birds!

Him saying about the kids coming in when you’re on a meeting reminded me of that video of the guy who’s kids walked in while he was doing a news interview and his wife came in and pulled them out. It did make him quite famous though and he even went on a Korean tv show about celebrity dads (and sometimes mums) looking after their kids.

Thank you so much! That last scenario is one I'm moving into in about three months. My study is TINY, and is, actually, the vertical mirror opposite of the room you showed at the end, with the door at the bottom on the right. There's also a closet at the bottom on the left, and a window: center, top. I was going to place the desk facing the wall on the right, but you've convinced me to place it facing the wall on the left. I'm still putting the shelving OVER the desk (on the left) however, and putting waist-high filing cabinets on the right, so that I can have a nice backdrop for zoom calls. Any other suggestions? How about window treatments?

Very informative thank you! I’m actually setting up my office in my new house today. I have an elliptical machine that I want in my office also, any advice?

I have really been enjoying your videos. Thank you very much! I'm soon to be moving from the UK to Canada and our new house has a rather unusual feature that we were looking to turn into an office. Its like a mezzanine landing area that is largely awkward and unusable otherwise as it serves as the hall way for the guest bedroom and bathroom. but we thought we could turn into a shared office space which overlooks the kitchen/dining/living space below. But after watching this im wondering if our plan may actually work :S The threat from flying monkeys and snipers is real!

Hi! I love your videos and always learn something new. Thank you! I’m currently planning renovations in my house and I thought that small 3D printed models of furniture (beds, wardrobes, etc.) would really help in construction (and visualization). Could you tell me what they are called please? I searched the Internet in my native language and found nothing, and I don't know how to call it in English

thank you for the informative video! I'm about to set up a home office for myself and my partner and we've been having trouble in positioning the tables given that our room is quite small - do you have any tips for a set up for two tables? would you recommend us to face the walls away from the door and the window with our backs against each other?

I love this! We have the door on the right hand wall, windows same as shown and a wall of cupboards on the left. Trying to fit two desks has been a nightmare 😭