Is There an Interior Decorator in the House?

This weekend I moved out of my classroom:

All moved out

I also moved out of the vice principal desk I used to occupy in the school office, so I’m currently homeless at school. All of my files and books are on a counter in the school library, awaiting my new space.

Like most schools, we don’t have a lot of unused space, so we have to be a bit creative to come up with something new. We settled on re-purposing a storage room, which also doubles as the server room:

My future office

It’s pretty small, and I’m not very good at interior decorating, so I’m a bit at a loss as to how to transform it into office space. I’d love to hear any suggestions you might have. We’ll be moving most of this out, but some of the networking equipment will need to stay. I hope I can adjust to the fan noise caused by the network switch and firewall.

My biggest concern is creating a work space big enough to allow me to work on laptops and iPads, but also small enough to keep the room from feeling cramped. It also needs to be furnished so that I can meet with students. And with the cinderblock walls and tile floor, it would be nice to soften it up some with a carpet or something.

Any ideas? If you’re a school tech director and you have an office, what does it look like?