Quarantine of the Day
Quarantine of the Day
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Bought supplies to make the desk I want and need soon, now that my office has vacated our space and we’ll all likely be working from home for quite a while regardless of lockdowns ending. Won’t get the wood till mid-May, but dimensions are going to be 74” wide x 30” deep, with a 74” x 12” shelf on casters running the length of it.
Will have space to bring out my 27” Thunderbolt monitor and use it beside my iMac (been wanting to do this for Logic Pro) and can easily disconnect and plug in my work laptop.
Stuff I’m using:
IKEA Karlby wooden countertop
Steel custom made legs from Etsy
Simple cord J channel raceway cable organizers along the back
- Good setup, really like the legs.PhanLo
- is most the price in the legs?MrAbominable
- love itmonospaced
- Nice, how much did the legs cost you? The pricing is all over the place on eBay, ranging from $99- to $400- for a set of legs. A fair price is around $125-utopian
- The legs were $185. IKEA counter was $269, but you will not find any solid Walnut of those dimensions for anything less than that.mg33
- nice. pics in mid-May or it didn't happen.MrAbominable
- The 1.5" thickness concerns me. The table top may get warped overtime because of the weight you put on table as well heat and cold fluctuation.utopian
- I would strong recommend at least 1.75" thickness for your desktop.utopian
- Here is one that is thicker and cost less than the IKEA desktop. ($110-)
https://www.lowes.co…utopian - https://www.lowes.co…utopian
- Good thoughts utopian! What do you think about this guy’s solution to the sag problem? https://www.reddit.c…mg33
- just run a 2x4 along the middle underside of the ikea top. like most regular big dinning tables do. will support and stop sag.shapesalad
- Lots of people with Karlby setups use the Alex drawers as support for the desk. They have a lot more surface area than these legsmg33
- Is that a concern to anyone?mg33
- Also, I would most likely not be putting the legs flush at the end; Probably a foot in from the edge.mg33
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- Thanks man. I REALLY want to make this work, and without resorting to Alex cabinets if I canmg33
- Also, that first video shows an adjustable leg as center support. I'll have four left over from my old desk, that are adjustable. Just don't like the looks.mg33
- Actually, after talking to my wife, I'm trying to cancel the legs order. We both agreed that a double Ikea Alex drawer setup would look nice, and add moremg33
- support. Not only that, I had forgotten a project to house my effects pedals inside a drawer, if possible.mg33