Good Home Office Desk?

A question about : Good Home Office Desk?

I have been looking online for an office desk for in the home, maybe 2, but all of the desks i see look horrid.

I've looked on the ikea website, they're well priced, but they don't look that nice.

Can anyone recommend a desk that is big enough for laptop, printer, paper work etc that looks nice but also doesn't cost the earth?

Best answers:

• I wanted a desk to fit the space it was going in, in the end i gave up and went to B&q for Mdf and made one, it wasn't difficult.
• My friend bought a off-cut of a kitchen worktop and bought two chrome legs from Ikea and has made a great looking desk for less than Ј50
• Look around second hand office furniture shops and see if you spot anything you fancy.
• IKEA. One with pink trim, one with green trim. Not badly priced, especially if you're heading that way anyway. On top of that you've got the massive deal breaker;
  Swedish meatballs, mashed potato and gravy.
• Does it need to 'look nice'? It's there to do a job, not to be admired!
  We use pine tables from IKEA. No drawer space - it actually means you collect less clutter because there's no where to put it!
• What looks nice to me may not look nice to you. People have very different taste in furniture!
  Do you have any furniture in your house (bookcases, dining tables, whatever) that you can give us links to so we can at least see the style you prefer?
  I like quite old-fashioned furniture and recently got a second-hand Edwardian style desk. To me it looks lovely (and will look even better once I've repainted it) but to everyone else it would look like it belongs in their nan's house!
• I work from home too, and wanted something special that matched my decor. I found a multi-level tempered glass workstation, with a picture on the desk part and chrome legs. I love it. It was reduced to Ј149, which may seem a bit expensive, but I hated all the standard same old wooden desks.
• My current decor, (im in the middle of top to bottom refurbishing)
  But i currently have cream walls in pretty much every room, white skirting, frames and doors... You get the picture Going for the neutral look ready for when it gets sold.
  I have wooden floor in the lounge where my desk will probably go.
  I need an office desk that will go nicely with cream, white and light wooden floor...
  Black wouldn't go with that...
  I am thinking this desk is probably worth the money but its a bit small so i'd have to buy two, which wouldn't be the end of the world.
  Trouble is its being sold by companies like Wayfair.co.uk who seem to have poor service and the delivery time looks like anyones guess, could takes weeks to come.
  https://www.wayfair.co.uk/Maja-Club-C...9-HFL1231.html
• I still say go and look at a few second hand office supply shops.
  Like pinkteapot, we have a very old-fashioned desk on the landing for me. I would happily have lost it long ago, but DH likes it. DS2's old room has another old-fashioned desk. In DS1's old room (which is currently DH's study) we're using a long length of kitchen worktop, abandoned in the garage when we moved in, on top of two small chests of drawers which were initially bought as very inexpensive bedside cabinets from Woolworths!
  DS1 used to have a nice desk in his rented flat, IKEA table top, two legs and a chest of drawers. Looked fab.
• I "made" my desk from several ikea kitchen cabinets placed on the floor and topped with ikea workbenches (slabs of oak wood). No legs required. A 4m desk for 2 people for a couple of hundred quid. It looks a little like this
• I like the kitchen unit thing!
  I set up self-employed just before Christmas, I didn't want a drawer unit restricting my leg space so I went for a dining room table. I'd seen a nice one in Ikea but I don't have transport, I found a near-identical one on Amazon for half the price so I could buy a couple of matching chairs for the same as I'd have spent on just the table - and they delivered it free. It was called Julian Bowen Coxmoor Oak, if you want to search for it to see if it's your sort of thing. It cost about Ј150 for table and two chairs - you don't mention what you'd consider cheap.
  It's plenty big enough for what I need (laptop, keyboard, monitor, phone, and space for me to actually work at) but if I also wanted a printer - which I haven't decided yet as so far it's been OK to receive and send everything electronically - I'd need to buy a little side-table to keep it on. I also like it because if I ever decide to pack it in and get a proper job again I can always use it for its intended purpose of eating off (I bought my flat quite recently and the trip to Ikea was actually to look for a dining room table to use as a dining room table, before I knew I'd be leaving my job), whereas a "home office desk" is pretty much always going to be just that.
  Hope this helps!