New Desk (top) required

quidsinquentin

Edited..........

WestonDave

Did something very similar in our old house - the "return" was on the right if it helps with these details!.

For the top I got a 8x4 sheet of blockboard from B&Q (about £25) - if you hunt through the pile you can find some with very nice surfaces. Cut it down to 6ft in length, and then made it into an L shape by cutting out a section to leave the desk 30" deep front to back on both arms. Its not hard to make the "bend" a curve by using a jigsaw. Varnish the top a couple of times with a good quality tough varnish.

I then created a frame out of 2x2 timber that ran the full way around the wall where the desk top would touch with cross members that ran across front of the long width and under the return (simple chop out joint into the wall supports). The return was supported by making a similar frame with one leg at the sticky out corner - cross piece from there to both walls. The frame looks like a hollow L with the inner corner joined across (can't really explain this very well - draw a hollow L and continue all the straight lines on and you'll see).

Finishing touches - if you have one of those circular saw drill bits you can make a hole in the corner for all the PC cables etc to go down, and you may have enough wood left to make an end for the exposed end that sticks out into the room.

Funny part was after a few years we started a family and decided that we needed that room as our sons room so removed the top and put it in the garage before redecorating the room. We then very quickly found a house we wanted to move to so put the house on the market - the guy that bought the house kept the top so he could reinstate the desk.

You could dispense with the frame and get legs from Ikea but I'm not sure if a sheet of timber that size would warp without somekind of frame for support.