Desk
With the new arrival of a couple of 22″ Smasung LCD’s for my home office, I’ve finally decided to move forward on building the desk to replace the dining table that has served as my desk for the last ten years. Don’t get me wrong, the dining table has served me well, but it is a table, after all.
Here’s the concept:
The sketch is actually two views of the same thing, the top section is a front elevation, and the bottom is the overhead view.
Basically the finished desk will be two levels. The darker brown is the work surface/keyboard area, and the angular portion is a raised shelf for the monitors to sit on. There’s space underneath for peripherals and other storage. The slots at the back of the desk go through the monitor shelf and the desk underneath to allow for cable management. The dashed lines are the shelf support structure. To the left you see two cutouts. The one in the middle is to account for the trim work that’s in my office nook, and the one on the corner is to allow cables to go up to the wall mounted tv.
To keep cost down I’ll make this out of MDF with an acrylic laminate of some sort, probably black. I’m considering making the work surface double thick. All the edges will be rounded over after the laminate is glued down.
I talked to my brother the other night, and he’s going to rig up a power management system to mount on the underside of the desk so I can turn the monitors and other peripherals on and off with one switch.
I think it’ll be a pretty nice piece of furniture once it’s done.
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