Home DIY

Yeah my current desk is 85cm deep and I wouldn't want to go back to any narrower

It’s only too big if you can’t reach things at the back whilst stood on your chair. Liz’s desk is 1.2m deep and I’m sure if it was deeper she’d still use all the space.

Thanks all. Mind is put to rest.

Prob just attach a basket under the desk and drill some 60 odd cm holes and add cable tidies? May try custom cut ones.

Good point. I sit super low and like leg room. Looks like depth is staying.

How fancy is your ply? During the first lockdown when I couldn't film anything I wanted a big surface in the attic (accessible only by a flimsy fold down ladder) to practice tabletop lighting so I bought two sheets of 2x1m ply, glued them together and put it on top of a scaffold frame with castors. It's not pretty but is very heavy duty and mobile (though it needed two people to lift it up through the gap). I sanded and oiled etc and was careful with the corners but it still looks a bit naff. I certainly won't be removing it when we eventually sell this place.

Second lockdown I wanted something prettier. So I bought a 2x1 oak tabletop and a pair of legs that are a bit like this from a local welder: https://www.hartleysdirect.com/hartleys-industrial-square-table-legs.html It went in the spare bedroom and now we don't have guests. (Two birds with one stone). It's great. Looks lovely when it's not covered it shit. So heavy duty I can jump around on it. And obviously @chrisbmx116 is jealous when he hears of how much reach I have with my 1m wide mousepad in PUBG so he's decided to copy me. Again.

Cables I got a boring bit for a drill and took a chunk out the centre. Has a nest underneath to support extension etc. The hole I removed also fits a monitor stand but I may need to do another one or extend it when I eventually get around to picking up the Ergotron LX Dual arm you recommended.

Chris, stop this shit attempt at a humble brag and realise that there is no such thing as too big a desk. Only too small. My next desk will just be me drilling a circle big enough to fit into out of the floorboards, and lowering myself onto a swivel stool.

Gonna be good !! - that front rail (and the front to back ones for that matter) aren’t doing a whole lot in terms of limiting flex - I would think . But if you glue and screw the front rail to your desk-top from the underside (pocket hole jig would be ideal - or little tiny metal corner brackets) then it’s stiffness is acting on the front edge of the desktop as a beam - to limit flex. I did this over 1700 mm - doesn’t flex even with the weight of a 10yo . So you might even get away without a middle leg.

At this point I’m just thinking you need to come round and sort everything.

My new worry is the rad isn’t going to fit under it.

A while ago I made also a big desk (~3,somehting meters wide), and I built it too low, so I unmounted everything and put the desk higher with some wood under the table. The depth of the table is now 67 cm.

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We have outside stairs to the basement, and the problem was that water doesn't come from the top, but from the bottom, groundwater, when it is really heavily raining for some days. I made a raised platform in front of the basement door to have some more time when the water raises – it helped several times, but two weeks ago not, and (not soo much) water was in the basement. Because of my platform the water couldn't drain off to this hole outside, which was probably the plan what should happen with water when the basement is flooded when the house was built. So hopefully this new installed pump will help me A) to stop water when it raises as much as possible or B) help me to put water out of the basement in worst case.

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That looks like a way more professional job than mine! Thanks for sharing, doesn’t look as hideously large as mine does atm so maybe it’s just going from empty room to big desk that’s throwing me.

Ha, I thought yours is much easier constructed and better looking and I did overcomplicate everything as always - including my height fail

What colour valchromat? And how do you protect it/finish it?

Black, and prob some osmo oil? Feels pretty hard wearing?

Sounds like a cool material. Quite like the blue.

Making a peg board later. Just off to B&Q to pick up the materials.

It is! And just incase you mistake me for someone with creativity or talent, I'd like to make it clear I am not, I just copy these guys and @Sheppz

Tangential self-deprecating rant:
I really really like how that house looks, but left to my own devices wouldn't come close to thinking of doing some of the things/combinations/layouts/colours here - maybe it's lack of exposure, but wish I had the imagination to echo some of this stuff!

Feel so basic with my white-walls-everywhere Pinterest-at-best yes-we-have-anthracite-bifolds design choices...

That house is 110% in execution and I really like it but the budget must have been stratospheric!?
From a costs point of view there will never be a return on that investment but that’s obviously not a priority for them.
Great to see no griege though.

It’s not difficult, just assemble an archive of ‘I quite like that’ imagery and think about what will or won’t work in your own spaces.

We are both arts trained so a bit easier to work things out and verbalise why something will or won’t fit, but that’s years of explaining things to visually unaware clients :-)

I don't know why no-one wants hi gloss painted rolled anaglypta on ceilings anymore...- suppose 'its not a bleedin pub mate' is a valid answer

Neat, is it automated? If not there are lots of smart water sensors around which could be combined with a smart plug/relay...

My new worry is the rad isn’t going to fit under it.

Is it a good idea to have a rad under it? Won't that stop it, er, radiating?

Warm knees, cold shoulders.

Sense of relief when these things still fit after drilling and fixing and don’t immediately pull out of the single skin plasterboard wall.

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