Clean and Minimalist WFH Setup in Sweden

Name: Joakim Widell

Location: Trollhättan, Sweden

Occupation: Project manager within mechanical design

Room size: 9 m² (97 ft²)

Cost of setup: $12,3K

Hello! Tell us a bit about yourself

I’m a mechanical engineer with a passion for technology and product development.

My interest in these areas started early on — by the time I was 13, I was building my own PCs, saving up from summer jobs to afford it.

Right now, I manage projects and programs focused on mechanical design at a major telecommunications company in Sweden.

Although I don’t have any side projects at the moment, I’m eager to dive into 3D printing soon.

Take us through your setup

A lot of thought went into the setup; planning began as soon as we signed the contract for the house (almost six months before moving in).

We decided straight away that this space would be my home office and battlestation, located away from the bedrooms of the rest of the family for those late-night sessions in front of the PC (which accounts for about 50% of the total cost of the setup).

I’ve been building the setup piece by piece over a couple of years, but it wasn’t until I got this space that it all came together.

I’ve tried a lot of different layouts in the past: one monitor, two monitors side by side, vertically stacked — always incorporating at least one ultrawide screen — but this combination of one ultrawide and one monitor in portrait mode is my favourite so far.

It enables me to focus on the main screen while having documents, chats, emails, etc., easily available at a glance on the portrait screen, without causing neck pain (which I got from the vertically stacked combo).