Other Desk options

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Sloth, 11 Feb 2010.

  1. Sloth

    Sloth #yolo #swag

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    Hello, you might notice this is my first post/thread. Always been a big fan of bit-tech but hadn't been to these forums in literally a couple years... forgot my username and pass!

    Anywho, I come to you all today with a bit of a question, or at least seeking general advice. Given the corner of a room, about 5' (2.5 or little more meters) in each direction, how would you go about setting up a desk? Anyone can slap some plywood on cinderblocks and have at it but I know many of you here are very creative and skilled craftsmen who could suggest something better.

    As some background info yes, there is wall socket in this corner. It would be used to house 1-2 PCs and 2-3 monitors (19-24"), a printer, a lamp, and some basic networking gear (modem and wireless router). Like just about everyone here I enjoy working on and building 'puters so if some open work space can be made that's a plus too.

    I've looked around at some desk ideas from furniture stores but I'm not sure. Most are too artsy or are designed for a much less... dedicated user. If anyone has/knows of a good prebuilt desk please, say so! Otherwise, anyone got some homebrew ideas? :D

    Also for fun, desk picture thread activate?
     
  2. Sloth

    Sloth #yolo #swag

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    So, since no one was biting I went ahead and did some designing of my own. It's pretty basic but that's what happens when you're a sloth. Thinking of running a little rail along the bottom of the upper level and mounting my monitor to that so I can slide it out of the way and don't have a pesky stand taking up space.
    Imagine this:
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    On the bottom of a keyboard tray sitting up there.


    Also here's a little isometric drawing I made. Sketchup is for pansies.
    http://i381.photobucket.com/albums/oo251/Fuzzypandar/DeskLayout.png
     
  3. yakyb

    yakyb i hate the person above me

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    I just used a company called btoffice see their website its great. in terms of monitor stands you cant go much wrong with These

    i have the MDM07
     
  4. Jipa

    Jipa Avoiding the "I guess.." since 2004

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    I'd set it up like so:

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    The main desk would be rather deep - say 80 cm, mount the screens to the wall behind with some Z-stands so you can push them further back to make more desk space when needed. The shelf on top for printer/network gear, what have you, and the desk on the right just for some table estate.

    Some random points:
    - Have the desks a few inches from the walls so there's enough space to pull cables through
    - You do NOT want to have a table foot in where you pictured it, in the center, you'll end up bashing your knees there a lot
    - Large corner desks have lots of unusable space in the corner. Trust me, I use to have one. You just can't reach the corner and likely just end up having a screen there with half a squae meter of un-used space behind :wallbash:

    EDIT: WHOOPS I thought I said Imageshack to resize the picture to 640x480.. Oh well it's still only 28 kB.
     
  5. Sloth

    Sloth #yolo #swag

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    I looked around at the local hardware store and found some fancy little supports to get rid of that center foot. My knees and toes will probably thank you!

    I like the idea of having both sides be the same depth so that I could have two individual work stations which one chair can swivel between, going to try to think of some special method of using up that spare space that would result in the corner. Gotta be something a nerd with a dream can do to half a square meter! :D
     
  6. LT.BEECH

    LT.BEECH Minimodder

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    why dont you put the subwoofer of your speakers (if you have one) in the corner.
     

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