Cube House 429

I think this is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. You are now my hero. Course most of the guys I work with say it is gay.

I've done it, lots of times. I make them out of tinfoil. It's stops the cosmic rays, you know.

...is currently taking a long hard look at just how much he's paying you.

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Where do you work that you can get away with doing this.

Yes I have seen this before, but then the walls were padded....

Did you win the contest?

See subject; :) Other than that, I think JWZ [jwz.org] made himself a cubicle tent once. Netscape made him take it down as I recall. I'd love to see more examples of clear fire hazards, so if anyone has any more keep posting.

Just what *do* you do at work if you have that much free time!? lol This reminds of that "While You Were Out" show...they should do it for cubicles.

I read this thinking he decorated his Mac Cube... and thought that was pretty cool. Maybe put some christmas lights inside or something... but this is just his work cube... not as cool.. IMO.

Wouldn't it get pretty warm in there?

5.5 Hour of Pay to decorate your CUBE. cool I still have you beat, getting paid 8 hours a day to surfing slashdot.org

has anyone done something like this before?

True Story: In 1982 or so I had a job stocking shelves (hey, I was 16) Anyhow, I got pretty stoned at dinner break and had a great idea.. I bought a can of gold spray paint in the store then proceeded to completely spray paint a urinal in the men's room. Then I wrote in felt marker

"The Gold Urinal"
"A [my surname] Concept"

Needless to say when my boss called me in the next day and I was straight I didn't think the idea was too smart.

My server could use a good slashdotting... ;)

http://scottkuma.net/CubeHouse/ [scottkuma.net]

there was a whole interview on some evening magazine type tv show in the SF bay area a few years back, where some guy did that PERMANENTLY to his cube.
he used wood for all the framing and used real wood shingles for the roof!!!

his boss said, ok, but that no one else was allowed to do it.

I have not looked at the article yet.
I procured cardboard shipping boxes with the intent of converting my cubicle into an interior office.

There is no good reason the walls do not continue straight up.

as if cubes don't trap the smell of a fart already enough...

Your PVC roof is a fire hazard as it prevents sprinklers from putting out fires in your cube.

...or at least that's what the security at my last job would tell me when i tried to do simular stuff. Truth be told, any fire in your cube would open a gapping hole in that roof and the spriklers would work just fine. But, fire codes don't always make sense.

greg minshalls cube house at ipsilon around 98 or 99 [benjaminbenson.com]

Since I started to work at home, I have turned my house into a cube. Much to my wife's consternation, I might add...

Server is starting to get slashdotted.

I put up a temporary mirror [otierney.net].

And I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll ./ your house down!

Actually yes, while I was at one job I turned my cube into a tiki hut complete with thatch roof. My boss was pissed and was going to scream at me until the VP of the company came by and congratulated me on such a great morale builder and said that others should be so industrious.

Nearly everything for your own Tiki hut can be purchased at Archie McPhee's :)

"Everything's been thought of before. The trick is to think of it again."

Don't get your knickers in a knot just because someone else once had the same brilliant idea you had. It happens. A lot. It doesn't in any way diminish your own insight, no matter what some dimwitted nebish in the third cube over says.

Or even what you think.

I've always liked Pete Seeger's definition of "sophmoric," the itch to be original. Let it go.

I've never had the "pleasure" of working in a cube farm, but I tend to work in open office like enviroments of one sort or another. I like to dress up my space on a periodic basis. Right now it's a simulated Japanese tatami room, floor seating with the computer on a kotatsu with nonfunctioning wooden hibachi ( actually, it functions as a waste basket). A scroll painting and a rack of swords as a finishing touch. Very comfortable actually, and a damned sight cheaper than an Aeron. It's pretty easy to do in a cube space.

In the past I've done a simulated traditional Mongolian yurt, the rectangular Tibetan equivilent, various native American styles and an English country cottage.

Of course on a workaday basis it helps to have enough authority that no one can give you shit over it.

Next Christmas you might want to try a traditional middle eastern house or nomadic tent for the true Christmas spirit.

KFG

At one start up I worked at, we had a cubicle decorating contest for who got the close parking spots in the middle of January. My cubicle group (4 cubicles with doorways facing inwards) use white plastic to create a biohazard tent. It actually was nice because it blocked light from outside and helped us regulate the temperature.

The downside was when someone let one rip, well it lingered.

"Total cost of the project: $34
Total cost of the project after I return "unneeded items": $14
Total time to build, including sawing, etc: 5.5 hours."

...pissing off all your non-christian co-workers: priceless

...a submarine. I work as a reserve officer and spend several weeks every summer at a nearby air force base. This summer, a few guys in my office took it upon themselves to turn another office-mates cube into a submarine like environment. Using nothing but card-board and duct tape, they enclosed the cube from floor to ceiling. At the cube entrance they left a fully functioning hatch-style door complete with wheel. They then proceeded to decorate the outside to look like steel and rivets (not quite as much effort as your cube-house though).

By the way, good job on the cube-house!

We do this stuff at our office all the time. Usually for birthdays and the such. I really should throw together a web page with all the pics sometime.

The best ones so far where.

We took a bunch of cubicles and covered them with taped together black trash bags. This created a very cool cave. We put plants and a fog machine in as well.

Our boss is from Alabama, so for his birthday we decorated the whole office like some kind of back woods farm. We took his desk out and replaced it with a piece of plywood, and put a bail of straw in his office. We all dressed up in overalls and even staged a wedding ( the groom was at gun point and the bride about 8 months along ).

The next year we staged a murder mystery with our unexpecting boss at the middle of it. His brother was murdered and he had to figure out who it was. We staged it like a 30's private eye office.

For my birthday the guys decorated my office like a rave. Including a bunch of techno and monitors with cheesy colorful screen savers. Again the smoke machine was brought in, and they all laughed as I got lung cancer and couldn't even see my screen.

We've made people where bunny suits like at an amunsment park, had a toga party theme, made people work in a tent all day, and a whole lot of other things.

We've been slacking as of late with less revenues and more stress, but this stuff can really really boost morale in your office. We are a small company with very few rules, so we can get away with this stuff, if you can go for it.

Turned mine into a dump for old computer gear. Hang on, that's what every sysadmin does! You just never know whether a DecStation5000 will turn up to plug that old digitiser tablet into - all those empty boxes damp sound in the office, and that big pile of AT keyboards and big 10Mb/s switches are valuble thermal mass keeping the office temperature from fluctuating too quickly.