Good Home Office Desk?

NICHOLAS_2

My current decor, (im in the middle of top to bottom refurbishing)

But i currently have cream walls in pretty much every room, white skirting, frames and doors... You get the picture Going for the neutral look ready for when it gets sold.

I have wooden floor in the lounge where my desk will probably go.

I need an office desk that will go nicely with cream, white and light wooden floor...

Black wouldn't go with that...

I am thinking this desk is probably worth the money but its a bit small so i'd have to buy two, which wouldn't be the end of the world.

Trouble is its being sold by companies like Wayfair.co.uk who seem to have poor service and the delivery time looks like anyones guess, could takes weeks to come.



http://www.wayfair.co.uk/Maja-Club-Computer-Desk-4059-HFL1231.html

Savvy_Sue

I still say go and look at a few second hand office supply shops.

Like pinkteapot, we have a very old-fashioned desk on the landing for me. I would happily have lost it long ago, but DH likes it. DS2's old room has another old-fashioned desk. In DS1's old room (which is currently DH's study) we're using a long length of kitchen worktop, abandoned in the garage when we moved in, on top of two small chests of drawers which were initially bought as very inexpensive bedside cabinets from Woolworths!

DS1 used to have a nice desk in his rented flat, IKEA table top, two legs and a chest of drawers. Looked fab.

TheTracker

I "made" my desk from several ikea kitchen cabinets placed on the floor and topped with ikea workbenches (slabs of oak wood). No legs required. A 4m desk for 2 people for a couple of hundred quid. It looks a little like this

NICHOLAS_2

TheTracker wrote: »

I "made" my desk from several ikea kitchen cabinets placed on the floor and topped with ikea workbenches (slabs of oak wood). No legs required. A 3m desk for 2 people for a couple of hundred quid. It looks a little like this

Not bad to be fair...

You are making me think now to be honest.

Maybe 2x 300mm base units, some decor ends, i would need 4, a couple of doors and a bit of kitchen worktop.. I could make something more substantial and nicer than typical desks.... I could even get a base unit and put draws in the one side... with soft close I would need to fit something to the back of it to hide the backs of the units too...

It will be quite a heavy desk once built though would have to try and build it in such a way that i can take it apart easily with out affecting how it looks when i move.

My main line of income comes from property refurbishment and we fit a lot of kitchens, we often have bits of worktop left over and i am already thinking of the nice 2m lenghts that we've chucked onto skips :eek::o

And we currently don't have a kitchen fit approaching in the near future so i may have to shell out and by a 3m worktop if i want the desk anytime soon would want it to be 2m long but not much longer...

We usually get stuff from howdens but that are pricey so would probably get the stuff from IKEA if its cheap enough...

I am liking this idea.

CKhalvashi

NICHOLAS wrote: »

I am liking this idea.

I think it looks good, too, and the amounts we're talking here are very moneysaving.

Well done on it!

TheTracker

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I think it looks good, too, and the amounts we're talking here are very moneysaving.

Well done on it!

I used FAKTUM units and LAGAN tops. I've 4 FAKTUM units along a wall spanned with LAGANs which I varnished myself. Thinking back the cost may well have been in the order of 500. The tops are heavy and I just screwed them to the units, they shouldn't be too difficult to take apart when moving. I bought handles from a cheap shop.

One of the cabinets has all my IT in it (networking, server, etc) and I bought a cheap cabinet fan off the Internet to circulate air.

Apparently these are now called METOD and HAMMARP. But if you google the old words ("LAGAN FAKTUM DESK") you can find other people doing the same. There is one downside in that the desk is an inch or two higher than standard, so chair height is important.

There are whole websites out there on how you can hack ikea/b&q items into unintended uses.

Snakey

I like the kitchen unit thing!

I set up self-employed just before Christmas, I didn't want a drawer unit restricting my leg space so I went for a dining room table. I'd seen a nice one in Ikea but I don't have transport, I found a near-identical one on Amazon for half the price so I could buy a couple of matching chairs for the same as I'd have spent on just the table - and they delivered it free. It was called Julian Bowen Coxmoor Oak, if you want to search for it to see if it's your sort of thing. It cost about £150 for table and two chairs - you don't mention what you'd consider cheap.

It's plenty big enough for what I need (laptop, keyboard, monitor, phone, and space for me to actually work at) but if I also wanted a printer - which I haven't decided yet as so far it's been OK to receive and send everything electronically - I'd need to buy a little side-table to keep it on. I also like it because if I ever decide to pack it in and get a proper job again I can always use it for its intended purpose of eating off (I bought my flat quite recently and the trip to Ikea was actually to look for a dining room table to use as a dining room table, before I knew I'd be leaving my job), whereas a "home office desk" is pretty much always going to be just that.

Hope this helps!

Slinky

TheTracker wrote: »

I "made" my desk from several ikea kitchen cabinets placed on the floor and topped with ikea workbenches (slabs of oak wood). No legs required. A 4m desk for 2 people for a couple of hundred quid. It looks a little like this

Looks good but I don't see how you can claim it's a workspace for 2 people when there is only space for one pair of knees!

TheTracker

Slinky wrote: »

Looks good but I don't see how you can claim it's a workspace for 2 people when there is only space for one pair of knees!

That isn't my desk, it is just an example. Mine goes unit/space/unit/unit/space/unit and 4 knees are accommodated.

NICHOLAS_2

Snakey wrote: »

I like the kitchen unit thing!

I set up self-employed just before Christmas, I didn't want a drawer unit restricting my leg space so I went for a dining room table. I'd seen a nice one in Ikea but I don't have transport, I found a near-identical one on Amazon for half the price so I could buy a couple of matching chairs for the same as I'd have spent on just the table - and they delivered it free. It was called Julian Bowen Coxmoor Oak, if you want to search for it to see if it's your sort of thing. It cost about £150 for table and two chairs - you don't mention what you'd consider cheap.

It's plenty big enough for what I need (laptop, keyboard, monitor, phone, and space for me to actually work at) but if I also wanted a printer - which I haven't decided yet as so far it's been OK to receive and send everything electronically - I'd need to buy a little side-table to keep it on. I also like it because if I ever decide to pack it in and get a proper job again I can always use it for its intended purpose of eating off (I bought my flat quite recently and the trip to Ikea was actually to look for a dining room table to use as a dining room table, before I knew I'd be leaving my job), whereas a "home office desk" is pretty much always going to be just that.

Hope this helps!

I prefer a work desk to have space to put stuff in draws or cupboards, if i had a dining room table it would end up piled high and get too messy. ( I also like things as close to arms reach as i can get them)

As a minimum i need a surface to 2m long, width of 60cm (which a kitchen worktop would be ideal for). And then i can sit that on top of a custom setup of draws and cupboard space and put sexy looking kitchen doors on it.

This idea may work out slightly more expensive than i originally planned but if i make it well and look after it it could last a lot longer than one of these flimsy chipboard jobs that companies slap £200 price tags on.

Plus a lot of the desks i have been looking at on the net don't fit the dimension criteria, either too big or too small this is why i am not terribly impressed with what is on offer.