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I got fed up with crappy desks from office stores and decided to make my own desk instead - its basically just an 8 foot long piece of wood, about 2 1/2 feet de
by breily 18y ago
I got fed up with crappy desks from office stores and decided to make my own desk instead - its basically just an 8 foot long piece of wood, about 2 1/2 feet deep. Its not only really cheap, but it has room for my two monitors plus my laptop plus lamps/papers/etc.
It doesn't have the frills that seem to come with desks from stores, but I never used those anyways (I never understood building CD racks into desks). Plus since you build it yourself you can customize it - I put lots of holes in the back to run cables, with hooks underneath to organize them. For drawers, Ikea sells plastic ones that attach with a couple of screws for like $2.
- symptic 18y agoI'm thinking of buying a 30" wide door and attaching some metal pipes as legs and calling it a day. I you said, it can be customized later and it will be more than large enough to hold all of my papers, screens, etc. My father also suggests buying some architecture drawing surface and laminating it on top to provide a smooth writing surface.
- tait 18y agoIf 2-drawer filing cabinets are the right height, they would make useful and stable drawers. (If you do this, I would recommend spending the money for good filing cabines with ball bearings: I started with the cheap ones and hated them).