With so much working from home happening for the past year, and a clear indication it is going to continue at least to some significant degree, we needed a second home office. The upstairs library was the place to do this, so I set about making a desk. My wife wanted to buy some commercial thing made of crappy particle board for a few hundred bucks, but I have had enough of crappy Chinese furniture, so I said I would build a desk after I wrapped up the last door in my main floor batch.
Started around the first of the year and installed it in early march, so 2 months or so. I was not moving terribly fast... But here it is. One bank of drawers, where the lowest one is set up for hanging folders. A pull out fully adjustable tilt/lift/lower keyboard tray and a small shelf under the shorter end on the right side.
The whole thing is built modular so each panel is knock-down for easy moving. The top is the biggest piece as it is all one, and the drawer case is a bit heavy too, but not too bad. Wood is walnut/walnut plywood with a clear/amber water based polyurethane finish. Top is laminate with walnut edging.
This cost more in materials than the crappy desk would have, complete, but it is very solid and will last a lifetime. It is similar to the desk design she wanted to buy, tweaked a bit, of course, where necessary. The long side is a bit longer to make it more useful, I added the keyboard tray and the short side is a little shorter.
During construction:
And finished and installed:
Fairly simple, very solid, not too heavy to move around as needed (on felt feet).
Next up is general maintenance work on cars and I am starting on a project to adapt a rotary broom to my tractor, mainly for snow but also clean-up of leaves and such. Somewhere in there I will get back to doors for the lower level and upper level.
