New Desk

For almost 10 years I’ve used the same desk at home. I originally bought it for the way it could handle a lager CRT monitor. In particular the corner design saved quite a bit of space.

However recently after moving to a two LCD monitor arrangement I’ve found myself wishing for more work room. In addition as the picture shows, things were getting rather cluttered.

Obviously a rethink was needed as the mess was starting to impact my productivity. What tends to work for myself is to completely clear out the space and start from scratch. I had a good idea on what I wanted for a new desk, namely a non corner unit with a large work surface.  I had the room so it was just a matter of getting it done.

First came the job of clearing everything out of the space, which included the computer, monitors, routers switches etc.

One of our cats Marley likes to take great delight in going under the desk and playing with the cables to bug me.  He was not impressed that the old desk was going.

For the new desk the plan was to use a large 60×30 sheet of white mdf material with some simple legs.  I found these square frames that fold into a L to support the desk surface.

And here is the result.

Marley seems to like it. You can see how the leg frame work, this give a lot more room underneath.

After quite a few hours of trial and error I came up with what is in the photo below. One of the goals was to get the cpu up off the floor and onto the desk, this has been achieved and enough extra desk space is available that I can comfortably put the Macbook Pro on it at the same time.

Over the next little while I’ll be doing some more tweaks as well as adding some storage underneath to better sort things, I’ll post a shot when it’s done.