Question Custom Desks: Worth it?

[BinaryData]

Hey Ladies & Gents,

As I've gotten older, I've become more of a refined gent when it comes to my furniture and how my place looks. I've got a crappy old particle board desk that barely handles my 4 monitors, and my devices. I actually had to modify my desk with bricks to keep it from flipping over. Store bought desks aren't going to cut the weight, or the hours I put in front of a desk. When I'm not at work, I'm at home doing anything from coding, gaming, watching TV or using Skype with family. I also do a lot of electronic repairs, having a nice wide open area to work is a must. With that information;

Is a custom made desk worth it or am I just better off buying cheap desks, and attempting to not break them monthly?

 

[Mrgr74]

Hey Ladies & Gents,

As I've gotten older, I've become more of a refined gent when it comes to my furniture and how my place looks. I've got a crappy old particle board desk that barely handles my 4 monitors, and my devices. I actually had to modify my desk with bricks to keep it from flipping over. Store bought desks aren't going to cut the weight, or the hours I put in front of a desk. When I'm not at work, I'm at home doing anything from coding, gaming, watching TV or using Skype with family. I also do a lot of electronic repairs, having a nice wide open area to work is a must. With that information;

Is a custom made desk worth it or am I just better off buying cheap desks, and attempting to not break them monthly?

LOL @ breaking them monthly. I used to be a member of that club..

As for a custom desk, I am very much in favor of them. Especially a "custom" one that you buy and then add your own touches to, much like if you bought a cheap one from a thrift store and then modified it to your personal prefs.

As I've gotten older myself, I've moved away from the RGB craze (gave them to my daughter) and now I don't want my PC to even show unless I'm using it. So I'm in the process of modifying 2 vintage roll up secretary desks into 1 with a recessed monitor stand for my 32" monitor which folds up as the roll up top goes up. As I'm also an avid fly fisherman, the many small drawers the desk came with, is ideal to store my fly tying materials. At the end of the day, the desk just looks like a cool old vintage desk in my office, hiding whats inside.

So yea, I'd highly advise you to invest in either a new, high quality desk, or if you are more of a hands on person, to buy one at a yard sale or other location and modify it. After all, we all know furniture from the past was built to last.

 

[Ralston18]

Agree with @Mrgr74.

I will add that there is lots to be said for an old slab door placed across a couple of two drawer cabinets.

But you can indeed find some real desks at yard sales, thrift stores, etc. to fix up and modify to your requirements.

The hard part is getting those big, old, solid, and heavy desks into the house.....

Even after removing drawers, shelves, and such.

 

[BinaryData]

LOL @ breaking them monthly. I used to be a member of that club..

As for a custom desk, I am very much in favor of them. Especially a "custom" one that you buy and then add your own touches to, much like if you bought a cheap one from a thrift store and then modified it to your personal prefs.

As I've gotten older myself, I've moved away from the RGB craze (gave them to my daughter) and now I don't want my PC to even show unless I'm using it. So I'm in the process of modifying 2 vintage roll up secretary desks into 1 with a recessed monitor stand for my 32" monitor which folds up as the roll up top goes up. As I'm also an avid fly fisherman, the many small drawers the desk came with, is ideal to store my fly tying materials. At the end of the day, the desk just looks like a cool old vintage desk in my office, hiding whats inside.

So yea, I'd highly advise you to invest in either a new, high quality desk, or if you are more of a hands on person, to buy one at a yard sale or other location and modify it. After all, we all know furniture from the past was built to last.

That sounds super dope. You should post pictures when you're done.

Agree with @Mrgr74.

I will add that there is lots to be said for an old slab door placed across a couple of two drawer cabinets.

But you can indeed find some real desks at yard sales, thrift stores, etc. to fix up and modify to your requirements.

The hard part is getting those big, old, solid, and heavy desks into the house.....

Even after removing drawers, shelves, and such.

Been there, done that. My mom has an antique secretary desk. It's at least 100 years old, along with a clock that came over back in the day when the colonies were first starting. I'd have to look it up more but it's several generations old.

I was going to sketch something up, and have it custom built. I was looking at a hard wood desk. Something I could break down into a few pieces to move. Something like the desk below, but sturdier. I'm a hardcore computer geek, I have multiple servers, RPi Clusters, and what not. I monitor my entire network, down to how many people try to connect to my wifi, record everyone who comes to my door, and more. Some call it paranoia but I call it security. I'm working on buffing up my skills for web programming, and manipulating data into graphs and what not. Guess I'll have to start looking into customer desk makers.

Edit: Oh, I didn't mean an L-Shaped desk, I'm looking for a U-Shaped. I have 2 TVs I use for display Compute/Storage specs for my various projects, and monitoring my servers I rent. I like to know when my services get hit hard, i.e. Plex.

 

[curiousmcgeorge]

Hey Ladies & Gents,

As I've gotten older, I've become more of a refined gent when it comes to my furniture and how my place looks. I've got a crappy old particle board desk that barely handles my 4 monitors, and my devices. I actually had to modify my desk with bricks to keep it from flipping over. Store bought desks aren't going to cut the weight, or the hours I put in front of a desk. When I'm not at work, I'm at home doing anything from coding, gaming, watching TV or using Skype with family. I also do a lot of electronic repairs, having a nice wide open area to work is a must. With that information;

Is a custom made desk worth it or am I just better off buying cheap desks, and attempting to not break them monthly?

Local estate sales, and maybe your town has an email group like "Work Moms" (thats what we have here) where furniture is advertised. Ikea may have something you like.