It feels like it’s been forever since I’ve posted recent photos of my desk / collection, so it’s time for a desk diary! I’ve made a few changes here and there over the past few months, as my collection continues to grow it’s always a challenge to find more room to display all my figures in one place. Most of the changes I’ve made are adding new additional shelving, as well as getting rid of some old stuff to make some room for more figures ^^.
Looking back, here’s what my desk looked like as of February of last year. You can see the full post of last year’s desk diary here.
In order to make enough room for my growing collection, it took a bit of re-organizing and pairing down of some of my items. One of the biggest changes which you might be able to see is that I got rid of my stereo system. As much as I loved the sound from my 5″ studio monitors, the whole setup took up way too much room. I decided to get rid of my speakers + the rack in order to make the room feel more spacious.
One thing I also did to make more room was to get rid of some of the boxes I was saving, for some reason I felt the need to save ever single box for every single figure I ever owned. That includes puchi and trading figures ^^;;. Getting rid of the unnessisary boxes proved more room for storing my nendoroid boxes, some of which I’ve stashed behind my manga collection as you can see in the above pic.
With more room for boxes, it’s time to add another shelve above the desk! Kongou helps to install the LED lighting underneath the wooden shelve.
No more stereo system means less cables! But there’s still a ton of wires from all the lighting and computer accessories on my desk, so cable management is a must. I’m using some velcro straps which I’ve screwed into the wall, it works great for keeping the cables out of sight and it keeps them nice and orderly.
Incase you haven’t noticed, I’m a huge nendoroid fan ^^. Lots of shelves for lots of nendoroids.
Love this Senbonzakura Miku nendoroid, look forward to some photos featuring her in the near future!
homu homu
I’ve been getting into making dioramas for my nendoroids as of late. I’m really starting to enjoy the process of making dioramas, they’re great for photography but also are great ways to display your figures! Above you can see a diorama I constructed for my Kancolle nendoroids.
Had fun making this little school room as well.
Complete Wagnaria playset, with some other nendoroids thrown in as well.
Loving the extra shelve above my desk so far, I think it really makes the setup look complete!
Even though I mostly collect nendoroids, I do love PVC figures as well. I can always appreciate the amount of detail and craftsmanship that goes into them.
Still one of my all time favorite figures, Suzuha is one of those figures I can never get tired of photographing. So far I’ve also managed to break her bike in multiple spots ^^;
Also a big fan of this VN02 Miku figure
Above my desk I also have my SnK figmas hanging by a thread, which ended up looking pretty cool. I just hope the wires on their 3DMG don’t come lose!
Behind my desk I also have my drafting table, which I use for photographing figures, building dioramas, and working on other various projects. Since the glass tabletop on my desk would get scratched up easily, it’s nice to have a place to work where I can spread out and not have to worry about damaging or scratching anything.
Another good thing about not having the bulky studio monitors is there’s much more room on my desk for figures! Just got this homura figure the other day, she’s quite lovely.
That about sums up this desk diary for now, hope you enjoyed looking around my desk!
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OMG! I loved your studio and I really like your desk > < I want one! But, in my country there isn't Ikea, so I going to have to do a DIY XD
Thanks! Yeah I get almost all of my stuff from IKEA lol, but DIY stuff is really awesome as well!
Love the room, but I weep thinking about having to dust all those figures. :O
Yeah, dusting them all is quite a task these days!
Funny!
Everything is beautiful!
Thank you!
🙂
Nice room again, the “little” changes have improved the whole look.
It’s also good that you got rid of the big speakers and added some plants 😉
I always liked your selection of Nendoroids and figures, oh you also have Melissa Seraphy now.
Melissa Seraphy has been on my want list for a while now, even though I have no idea what her origin is lol. I just like her character design a lot ^^
dude your room feels heaven…must be nice living there^^
btw if you don’t mind me asking, how thick are the shelves that has an LED lighting? Actually i’m asking because I’m planning to build one for myself soon but when i try to find a 1W LED, it seems like the LED’s height is taller than my shelf.
Haha thank you! The shelves are a little bit thicker than 1/2 and inch (about 1.5cms), I like the IKEA dioder LEDs since they’re really thin
Hi, can you share your hitagi wallpaper please xD and also show me your macbook stand
Hi! Here’s a link to my Hitagi photo that I use for my wallpaper: http://nyotaku.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Senjougahara_figure.jpg
And here’s the laptop stand that I use on my desk: http://www.amazon.com/Rain-Design-10032-mStand-Laptop/dp/B000OOYECC
Enjoy!!
how do you clean your figures? i’m in love, your room is awesome
Thanks! I mostly use a brush to clean off the dust, and if needed I’ll use a damp cloth if there’s any dirt present.
I really love your school room diorama! Do you have any resources of where I can learn to do the same? I’d really want to make one the club room for all my K-on nendoroids!
Thanks! I don’t really have too many resources as I mostly just kind of make it up as I go along, but I did post some behind the scenes shots when I was building it which you can find on my fb page here: http://on.fb.me/2041Bnr
Oh, hey there! Nice to see some changes in your room. Truth be said, I liked your previous room setup more (the one from september 2013), I loved that metal shelves and that stand where used to be a receiver like thing, but surely the current one seems very nice and neat. My current goal is to save some money and build a nice clean room like yours so I can populate them with figures and mangas XD Also, a question for you: don’t you miss those speakers? I can’t imagine myself living without speakers, being a bespectacled person, using headphones is a pain .-.
I will admit I do miss the sound I got from my studio monitors, but overall the whole setup was way too bulky. My current speakers that I have now (which are now different from what you see in the pictures here) sound pretty decent and definitely don’t take up as much space as my studio monitors, so I’m pretty happy.
Thx for replying XD hope I can see a new desk diary post again sometime in the future. I really like the decoration and lighting you chose, helps adding a lot of uniqueness to the room.
what lights did you use on those wall mounted shelves ?
I’m planning on going to ikea this saturday 🙂
I use the IKEA DIODER lights : http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00119424/