Other Places in UK to buy a good PC desk and chair?

Hi BT,

I'm in need of a new PC desk and chair and wanted some advice on places in the UK (I'm based in East London) were they have a good range?

The only place I can think of is IKEA. Does anyone know of any others?

P

 

PC world actually have some good stuff, as do Argos/Homebase. It depends what you want - I use a dining room table for my main desk because it has a much greater surface area and higher build quality than the standard office furniture (it's solid wood as opposed to laminated chipboard) and it's worth maybe £140 but I got it on gumtree for £80

It's worth checking gumtree for people selling stuff locally - you can often find new/virtually unused furniture very cheap.

 

Hah! I was just looking into chairs yesterday, but found nothing worth shouting about. I am also curious about this.

 

Staples?
You could also try a secondhand office furniture place.

 

Had the same dilemma. I just went to IKEA and basically chose a huge piece of wood and 4 legs. Then got a chair from there as well. Think it cost me about £80 in total and they are perfect. The desk can take both my monitors and the desktop PC.

Bearing in mind i didnt want like a workstation type fold out thing. i just wanted a solid wooden table that would support my kit.

 

ha, same I use a dining table at the moment too (though it is laminated chipboard) so I know what you mean about the surface area. Unfortunately it's legs have almost gone and I think it'll collapse soon.. Surely a large pc desk exists out there though?

 

this for desk at least. IKEA huge piece of wood + 4 legs = £28 when i bought my one last year.

not sure about chair, still searching for a comfortable chair myself.

 

staples is good for chairs i have an excellent example, my desk is glass and alu from Argos, cost about £120 but well worth it its lasted me ages

 

Yeah my main requirements are that I want a large surface area (depth, not necessarily width) and a good height so my arms are resting on an even level from my chairs armrests to the desk.

 

So it sounds like IKEA and Argos for desk and Staples for chairs?

 

I bought this from Staples for around £100, very comfortable.

 

Nick a chair from work and get your desk from Staples.... its what I did

 

I built my desk from component parts from Ikea. Not cheap but solid as a rock.

 

My requirements were exactly the same, and I found that the dining table provided the perfect width, depth, height and quality for my chosen application

I recently bought a small filing cabinet/drawer combo which fits perfectly under the table and looks great

 

I have a very similar one fingers, really nice chairs

 

For a cheap but very solid build, you can always go to B&Q and buy a couple of kitchen cabinets, and a worktop.
Mine set me back about £100.
Then you can have it the size you want, draws rather than cupboards etc.
I got my chair from staples for £145,with built in massager.


Cheers,

Simon.

 

Yeah, I admired the one Pookeyhead posted it in that magazine discussion thread although I didn't go for the same fabric covering as him as my kids would destroy it.

 

Staples have some nice chairs, i bought mine from there.
i bought my desk from http://www.intercounty.com/office_desks.html bit more expensive than IKEA but in my experience the build quality was much better. (they sell some chairs as well)

 

That looks really good!
nice top and any length you want, got me thinking......cheers

 

I have an ikea dark wood corner desk with extension on one side. No idea what it cost but it's huge. I need a decent chair