Now with 25% More Space
At the aforementioned DWR warehouse sale (a disappointing shadow of its former self), I acquired a bookshelf. It's a nifty stainless-steel & molded plywood affair with 3 shelves + an extra they threw in for some reason. Edit: It was designed by Richard Holbrook.
So finally after 4 months I unpacked my book boxes. I also moved a lot of the various CD/DVD/electronics/cables/old mail boxes up to the closet. I came downstairs about an hour later and (maybe it was the time of day with the light streaming in through the window) my place looked twice as big. Or at least a quarter-again. All this extra space to work with, joy!
Dear Lazyweb: I'm looking for a desk. I have weird specific requirements:
- It's more like a table than a desk. No drawers, sides, etc. Just a tabletop and legs.
- It has an extremely high width-to-depth ratio. 80 inches wide by 20 inches deep would be ideal.
- The tabletop isn't reconstituted anything. Butcher block, hardwood ply, concrete, frosted glass, whatever. Just. No. Melamine.
The dimensions are important because I have a smallish office with a long wall behind my kitchen. It should be deep enough to slide my knees under, and hold a laptop next to a keyboard/mouse or two for other machines. All screens will be wall-mounted.
Craigslist/Ebay are utterly useless searching for this. Help!
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If you want something you'll keep forever, I recommend John Clark Woodworking. If you just want something for a couple of years, while you're in that space, I'd say you should fabricate yourself, maybe using shallow file cabinets as legs to support a cut-to-order desktop.
The desk I'm currently using is just a flat finished wood surface with legs. It's about 80" wide by 30" deep. It came from Ikea, but sadly I do not know what its name is.
I was just about to say, have you looked at Ikea's dining tables? The 6 seaters are about 80" by 30"; I'm looking at my dining room table right now and it fits your parameters, but is a little deep. My boyfriend was using it as a desk for a while and fit in his Cinema display, a full keyboard and mouse, and his MacBook Pro on the table, with room to have a little cleared space and an inbox.
Ikea does make a table that almost works. The tabletop comes in two pieces, one of which is almost suitable as a desk (13 inches x 90 inches). The legs are pretty lackluster though.
build your own, man. it ain't gotta be pretty. especially with an awkward space like that.