Ideas to make a grey cubicle less depressing. (Page 2)

I used to have a Kung Fu hamster in my cube, when things got too quiet around me I would play it and hear laughter from everyone in the cubes around me  Not sure of you can find him now.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcMEpxWfoU

A nerf basketball hoop is fun as well.  I also hung up my race numbers in my cube.

I had a cube in my first job, for 8 months.
Then the next 10 years I had an office - 3 different jobs - up until a few months ago. Our entire team, formerly in offices, got moved to common cube space to make room for... more important people. 

It's a totally different world. I wear my ear buds a lot.

18 Detectives work under me.  The first thing I did when I got moved to the unit was have the cubicles removed.  I want my people looking at each other, talking to each other, and working together.

I hate being in an office......I grab my work and find an empty desk in the big room.

So.....to the OP....my idea is to hire a bulldozer.

Cubicles should be illegal.  It's inhuman to stick someone in one of those things all day.

When I rule the world, they're getting banned. 

So my suggestion would be to dismantle the thing and start a trend!

i'm not sure...i've worked in cubes and offices over the past ten years.  i'm in a cube now.  some days it truly sucks - those days i am earbuds and pandora.  but i like that the people i need answers from are literally next to me/over the wall, it is slightly more productive.  i had an office for 6years at my last company, but nobody had a cubicle there.  here, everyone has cubes (but the bosses, of course!)

as for decorating, i have a bad dog calendar, pics of dog and husband, calendar, my "bull poo" coffee mug and my march madness trophy.  and stacks of paper/files/parts (i make automotive components).  i hung a stocking at christmas time - got a nickel.  maybe next year more goodies will find their way in?

Lucky bamboo! A flowering cactus! Fake fish! A little mini flowing fountain ball thingy. Toys! Standing windchimes! Candles!

When I had an office with no windows, I put up posters of windows looking outside onto really cool scenes. I'm trying to remember the study, but hospital patients in a room with a window (or in multipatient rooms, those situated next to the window) recover faster, and even patients in rooms with posters of the outside got better faster.

Thanks Everyone!  Where I work everyone has a Cube.  Even the VPs.  They seem to be the thing in High Tech. 

Funny thing is 100 yards away from me are windows with amazing views of Boulder Front range.  I'm not tall enough to see them over the charcoal walls though :-)

Maybe I will take a big photo of it and post it on the wall to pretend I have a window :-)

Lower your wall or sit on a stool? That's a nice view.

You could make a ribbon board to replace your grey cube wall.  http://pinterest.com/pin/61431982388132684/ Pinterest has tons of ideas if you type in "cube decor".

This guy made his into a castle: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/someone-turned-their-cubicle-into-an-an-office-castle-and-it

Deck it out with stuff from:

www.thinkgeek.com

I am warning you now.................the site is addictive!!!!