Furniture Hacker
July 23rd, 2007
Can you tell what it is yet?
Any closer?
Tada! The Freak Desk!
So as part of the Big Weekend of Tidy Up the spare room/office/junk room got sorted. While I was under the crappy old white desk digging out cables to scrape the dust off them I figured now was as good a time as any to actually sort out what we’re going to do with it. As we have permission from the landlord to bin the desk there was nothing to lose in modifying it to within an inch of it’s life. So we did.
All we needed was a half sized (or less) desk to put the server under and a monitor, keyboard and mouse on top. So off to Homebase to buy a jigsaw we went. A bit later on we had a very short desk and a pile of leftover chipboard.
The nice thing about modifying your furniture is that you can build in high tech features like fully integrated cable management solutions:
And here it is in all it’s glory (there’s even enough room for Tux to sit and keep an eye out for PEBKAC incidents):
Yes, I know you can buy computer desks but that’s not as much fun (or as cheap) as making your own. Plus they tend to wobble even more than this one does. Well, it more leans than wobbles but I think that’s “character”.
