I hate where my scrapbook table is-I'm a feng shui dummy! :)

My husband has the same thing about being back to the door.

Can you sit sideways to the door? Would that help? My husbands desk is to the left of the door in his office. I am sideways to my door as well, but only because I like to look out the window and the window is opposite the door. Do you have anything on the wall behind you? Can you put shelves there with storage so you don’t feel like you are sitting with your back to the wall?

I will admit none of this stuff would ever occur to me, so I may not be much help.

Maybe if you posted a sketch of your room for us to see, just a floor plan to see if we could help?

I have an ikea corner desk ( bought used ) in a corner of my bedroom. I have no issue with where I sit. The door is technically to my left not totally behind me but I’m not so sure it would bother me if it was. There is a window in front of me but I mostly keep the blinds closed so I don’t really benefit from the window. I do have an issue with storage & my own lack of organization. But that is totally my fault. I guess I ought to do something about it but I’ve been lazy.

is there some other way you can tweak the tables so they're not L-shaped? Can you maybe have one table in front of you and one table behind you? (but that would probably also make you feel boxed in...) End to end? Can you move it far enough away that you're not *right* inside the doorway? so it doesn't feel like the doorway is directly behind you?

I tried a lot of different things with my work surface, and ended up making myself a new, larger table out of a hollow-core slab closet door (36 x 82, I think) + two 4-cube units + short legs from Ikea-- and I put it smack in the MIDDLE of my craft room.   My back is technically to the door, but I decided being able to see out the window was more important to me. I'm going to go read the article you linked, though... and I'll probably decide to rearrange my entire room again, lol.

Before, I had a smaller "real" desk (24 x 50, something like that), along with a small Ikea kitchen table, and I tried it everywhere... desk against the wall, perpendicular to the wall, etc. and I decided that 1) it wasn't BIG enough surface for me to spread out on like I like to be able to do, and 2) I wanted to be able to walk around the entire thing. For me, that meant having ONE large surface, RIGHT in the middle of my room (which is a small spare bedroom). Is it pretty? nope. I won't be getting any photo shoots done for a magazine layout, or anything like that... lol. But it's functional- at least the most functional setup that I've had so far. I have a wheeled cart at one end, and a Michael's wheeled storage thing at the other end, so from where I sit to work, it's a bit of a u-shape, but I can walk around the entire thing.

My desk used to be L-shaped, but now I have them back-to-back in the middle of the space. A few months ago I switched my craft room (which was in the "bonus/family room" off the kitchen) with the dining room. I am much happier in this space, even though it kind of puts me in the middle of the house (open concept). My back is to a wall and I have a large window beside me. I can walk in a circle around the table, so no boxed in areas.

I've included a couple photos below. Please ignore the mess! I haven't put things away yet after NSD activities and I have a load of laundry that needs to be put away, lol.

Your space is amazing!  I LOVE the cage lights, you need to put a little HP creature in there!

I too have an L desk, but am switching to a deeper and longer one and getting rid of the L, more like yours,      I don’t know why I wanted an L shape so bad, it really isn’t workable for me.  

Ryann , I LOVE your desk! And your storage solutions. TFS.

@kendramage, I scrap standing up, and move around alot, so being trapped in a corner would not work for me. I have an L shaped office space off the end of our living room. In the wider part of the L, I have two counters, one on each side, and my work space is in the middle, moving from one counter to the other. I like the light from the window above one counter, but when that is too bright I can work on the one facing the wall. When I sit at my computer, it is in one corner away from the door, but I am facing sideways so I can see the door easily and don't feel trapped in. The end of the leg I am in holds the shelves with my albums. The narrower part of the L has most of my electronic tools, and storage for them and for card making.

grammadee How did you come to find out that you liked (prefer?) to stand while crafting?

I'm not grammadee , but I also stand quite often when I'm crafting- that's one of the reasons I wanted a new table, so that I could make it counter height. I do a combination of standing and sitting-- it just depends on what I'm working on. If I'm looking for papers, I'm standing (because they're behind me on a bookshelf). if I'm measuring, cutting, inking, etc. then I'm doing either. If it's really fine work (like adding stickles, etc.), then I'm sitting hunched over the project with my glasses off, so I can get a really close-up look at it.

I hunch over when I sit at a regular-height table, and it hurts my back if I'm there for any length of time.   I also have a tendency to get things crooked, so I would find myself standing quite often to get a better 'overhead' view of the page to make sure things are straight, or to get a more 'birds-eye' view for a better look at the patterns and colors. I figured I might as well have a desk / table that makes it easier to stand at, lol. I also have things stored behind me and at the side of my room on shelves, so standing makes it easier to walk around to get things if I need them. (or if I drop something on the floor- I'm also clumsy, lol.)

I love going to crops, but I HATE the tables and horrible banquet chairs they have in those spaces.  When I'm at a crop, I go between working at the table and working on the floor outside the conference room in the hallway, lol!

Since I have a standing desk I have ( 2) 2x3 cubby units under my desk.  Frees up so much floor space and everything is pretty much right where I need it to be.  
Also since you said the table goes wonky you could use the cubes to stabilize the table, but even if you want to sit the way Ryann has cubes under her desk could definitely help.