Building an inspiring work environment - from the walls up

Staying inspired at work is something I feel all journalists need to work at ---- and now we need it more than ever.

This week the web group I'm in (I'm now on the Web Task Force at my work) is moving to a new area within our building. Our group moves on Monday so this week my coworkers and I are trying to think of ways to dress up the area and make it inspiring. Here's a list of our ideas so far, please contribute your own ideas! Maybe I'll even share a photo after we move of our inspired area.

Ideas so far for our new web work area:

Give it a name. Right now we're thinking Cyberspace. Kinda retro, decidedly nerdy and fun. Since our new area already has some 80s colors we're going full-steam with the look and I'm working on an image to show off the areas name.

Clean up. Nothing's worse than a dirty work environment. We're making sure to clean off the windows, walls, desks and other objects. Also, we plan to remove old posters, banners and other stuff posted on the walls and around the area.

Create a social area. In our current area we're moving from I brought in a hot water pot and some tea. Now we plan to move that down to our new area and we'll create a new tea station. It's also the perfect area for bringing in treats and such. As we'll be moving in with new folks we don't know this area will be a great place for a once a day tea break and meet and greet.

Show progress on the walls. Since our group is all web heads, I'm using the wayback machine site to view and print out images of how our Web site has looked over the years since 1996. I plan to post these in chronological order on a wall so when we get down about our current Web site we'll be encouraged by the progress we've already made online.

Add funny or interesting objects around the office. We're thinking of adding fake flowers, maybe a print out of the @ColonelTribune 's paper hat and other random things we can find. A great example is the web team has a blow-up unicorn that represents our web management system. It's great to have around when we're mad at our web system and need something to blame.

Add labels for each person's desk. Not sure if I'll do this yet or not, but I think it would be fun to design something for each person that we tape on their work station. Not only will it help us remember each other's names (for the new people we'll be meeting), but it'll also add to the 80's arcade game feel.

Any other ideas?