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vanillafluffyMy desk is solid oak. In a past life, it was a school teacher's desk, the kind with a wide drawer over the kneehole, a narrower drawer to the right of it with a file drawer below. The wide drawer was missing its lock and there was no knob when I got it; I scavanged a painted white knob from a junked dresser which looks odd but serves the purpose.
It still bears signs of being varnished originally. If I was a stickler, I might strip and reseal it---with a knob that matched---but I'm not. I like natural wood, and aside from the corner where my cold drink usually rests, the oak is still in decent shape.
I got it a very long time ago from GK, who'd used it as a desk/telephone table before she found a smaller piece of furniture to fit in that space. (I was glad to have it; before that, my computer lived on the dining room table.) According to her, she found it by the side of the road and snagged it. It's lived in this same room ever since, although someday I want to relocate my office into the middle room.
My favorite feature, one of the reasons I've never tried to upgrade to a fancier desk, workstation, what-have-you is, it has an armrest, a slide-out board that nests above the righthand drawers. Although this particular piece of craftsmanship almost certainly predates the PC, it's perfect for mousing. That was another thing I had to replace, other than that knob. I've got an 8" piece of pine board in there, and it works just fine, except that in this heat, it's been getting slick from sweat, and not in a good way.
Today I improvised a solution for the summer ickiness---I wrapped a cotton dishtowel around it and locked it down with a binder clip. So far, it seems to be working, so I *did* accomplish something today.
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It still bears signs of being varnished originally. If I was a stickler, I might strip and reseal it---with a knob that matched---but I'm not. I like natural wood, and aside from the corner where my cold drink usually rests, the oak is still in decent shape.
I got it a very long time ago from GK, who'd used it as a desk/telephone table before she found a smaller piece of furniture to fit in that space. (I was glad to have it; before that, my computer lived on the dining room table.) According to her, she found it by the side of the road and snagged it. It's lived in this same room ever since, although someday I want to relocate my office into the middle room.
My favorite feature, one of the reasons I've never tried to upgrade to a fancier desk, workstation, what-have-you is, it has an armrest, a slide-out board that nests above the righthand drawers. Although this particular piece of craftsmanship almost certainly predates the PC, it's perfect for mousing. That was another thing I had to replace, other than that knob. I've got an 8" piece of pine board in there, and it works just fine, except that in this heat, it's been getting slick from sweat, and not in a good way.
Today I improvised a solution for the summer ickiness---I wrapped a cotton dishtowel around it and locked it down with a binder clip. So far, it seems to be working, so I *did* accomplish something today.
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Date: 2010-06-27 12:24 pm (UTC)Corgiguy has a huge wood desk given to us by a newspaper friend. It was the booty of war -- used by the German army and salvaged by the Army after WWII. It is not a thing of beauty, but boy, it puts any modern desk to shame for comfortable use and storage ability.
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Date: 2010-06-27 02:20 pm (UTC)I have a MacGuyver icon, but it's not installed because I just don't have enough room for all the icons I want....
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Date: 2010-06-27 02:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-27 06:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-27 06:53 pm (UTC)The other guy (can't remember his name) reminded me of Shaun Cassidy!
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Date: 2010-06-28 12:40 am (UTC)I totally agree! I do like bears. That was one of my favorite things about "The Losers": Jeffrey Dean Morgan strutting through a good chunk of the movie wearing a white dress shirt half-unbuttoned to reveal his manly charms.
The other Simon was Jamison Parker. A little too preppy for my taste, but yes to the resemblence.
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Date: 2010-06-27 01:24 pm (UTC)Now, in the basement of the duplex I'm living in, there's a solid METAL teacher's desk that someone left behind. Same drawer (etc) arrangement as your wood one, but no pull-out. I have no idea how they got it downstairs - the thing could double as a cruise ship anchor! - but there's no way in hell it's coming upstairs anytime soon. Or ever.
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Date: 2010-06-27 02:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-27 02:25 pm (UTC)