Panoramic Home Office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Name: Matt Jaworski
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Occupation: Co-founder & Chief Technical Officer @ PeepSo.com
Room size: 14 m² (150 ft²)
Cost of the setup: ~$15k including the furniture
Website: PeepSo.com
Hey, Matt! Tell us a bit about yourself
I come from a web developer background. I was a freelancer & digital nomad for the majority of my career.
In 2017, my best friend and I incorporated PeepSo.com in the US, and since then I’ve been working on my own business.
I’m usually OK working just from one laptop screen — which is kind of a requirement for a digital nomad — but given the pandemic, I spend much more time at home than I used to, so I decided to get comfortable and build an office for me and my girlfriend.
Can you describe your home setup?
| Item | Model |
|---|---|
| Monitor | 2× Dell P2415Q |
| Laptop | MacBook Pro |
| Keyboard | Apple Magic Keyboard |
| Mouse | Apple Magic Trackpad |
| Chair | IKEA LÅNGFJÄLL |
| Desk | IKEA MICKE |
The main driver of my entire setup is a late 2018 MacBook Pro 15″.
Being pretty much the best MacBook available in Apple’s built-to-order offer then, it sports 32GB of RAM and a dedicated graphics card, so in laptop terms, it’s an absolute beast, and usually has more computing power than I need.
That’s the only piece of hardware I need to do my job, and the rest is just hardware that makes it easier and/or faster.
Matt says that he bought all the displays and other accessories on the local analogue of Amazon. Most of his furniture come from IKEA including the Micke desk and the Langfjall chair
This room was originally our “hippie room” where we did yoga, read books, meditated, etc. It always had a strong “Bali vibe” going on.
So when we decided to add an office aspect to it, we tried to maintain the style — hence the white furniture and pastel-coloured chairs. It seems to have worked, and the room is still big enough to roll out the yoga mats.
It took about a week to complete everything since it was an impulse decision to build a home office before the pandemic renders my “work and travel” and “go to a cafe and work from there” lifestyle impossible.
The biggest challenge was my attention to detail, as I hate looking at cables, and all these devices do have a lot of them. Fortunately, I discovered Velcro-based cable ties!