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desk out of a door
Posted: Oct 23, 2009
Have any of you ever built a good desk out of a door? My desk is on its last legs. I am remodeling and have several average doors that I could use. What height would you go with? What would you use to hold the desk up - fild cabinets, saw horses, etc? Any ideas out there? I would love it if I could come up with something interesting. TIA.
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I Googled door desk and found .. sm - Me
[ In Reply To ..]Quite a few pictures and a couple of plans for making a door into a desk. If it were me, I'd probably use file cabinets of some kind so I could have some drawers and I would probably attach an adjustable keyboard drawer. Good luck and good idea for reusing stuff. =)
So many ideas out there...sm - recycler
[ In Reply To ..]A friend was given a door desk a long time ago, so, yeah, the idea has been around a while. Kudos to you for trying to recycle! AS for the height, I think that has to be an individual thing and you need to tinker with that. I would prefer file cabinets as "legs," just like the other poster, for the drawers, but you could also check the Ikea online catalog for ideas. Have fun!
I am sitting at mine right now. - CrankyBeach
[ In Reply To ..]Mine sits on 2 file cabinets--which makes it a good bit higher than a standard desk, so my work chair is actually a drafting chair. My foot pedal sits on a little stool/platform underneath that my dad originally knocked together to put under the piano so my mother's piano students' feet wouldn't just dangle.
I don't use a keyboard drawer because I can't work without having my wrists supported. I just belly up to the edge of the door/desk and my wrists rest on a beanbag wrist rest in front of the keyboard.
Another possible idea - Works for me
[ In Reply To ..]When the kids finally left the homestead, I turned the larger bedroom into my office and had the smaller one set up for weekend visits. Well, one of the kids moved back home, so I had to move out of the big bedroom. Since I still wanted to save the smaller bedroom for weekend visits and since my daughter assures me she will be gone in a month or two (8 months and counting), I turned the smaller bedroom into a “temporary” office. I placed a heavy door on top of the bed and a bookcase in the closet. I moved the bed so that when I turn around in my chair, I can reach the bookcase for reference materials, etc. When visitors come, I throw the computer into the closet on top of the bookcase, close the closet door, and take the door to the garage. Plus, I can always crawl into the bed if I need a quick nap. LOL.
Love it!! (NM) - MT!
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