I used to use the top shelf of my giant garage shelf to hold my cable modem, router, a NAS drive, a stereo my Ooma phone and a cordless phone. I say bit the bullet because those desk legs cost about half of a challenge budget. A place called Uplift Desk had what I needed, so I bit the bullet and based my design around their four legged desk frame. The plan I came up with consisted of using four desk legs instead of two since the two leg frames all seem to have a bottom member that is longer then my cabinet depth (24"). Sketchup is too hard for me to ever quite figure out other than basics, so when I got to the point of trying to design in the standing desk, I drew up my plan in Autocad. Up to that point, my design existing on graph paper and a crude sketchup model so I could picture how it would look in 3D. One night in a motel room in Red Wing, MN the idea hit me that I should put the adjustable height desk legs inside the cabinets so when in the down position my desk would look like a normal built-in desk, but when I wanted to I could raise it to standing height. I wanted it to look more like a traditional desk. I considered putting cabinets along one wall and having a standing desk on the other side, but I wanted something a bit different than a desktop with two legs under it. I still wanted a standing desk though and thought about differing counter top heights and two separate work areas, but I didn't want to lose cabinet storage space and couldn't come up with a solution to move back and forth that would work for me. I never assembled nor installed cabinets before and was leary of going that route, but when I figured out I could get my cabinets customized as needed and get higher quality cabinets and hardware for about the same price as Lowes (all plywood instead of particle board, better drawer slides, extended stiles, etc.) and with the fact that Lowes would take a couple weeks between me asking for a change to the desing/layout and them responding with a quote, I ended up getting a quote from Cabinet Joint. I came across the Cabinet Joint website and watched a bunch of their videos. Long story short, is that Lowes too way to long and had some limitations on their cabinets that I did not like (things like extended stiles as an example). This project is now complete and I really like how it turned out, so I figured I'd make this thread about it to show you all. I even made a thread asking about standing desks ( link). While thinking about all of this I got the notion that I would like an adjustable height desk that could be used sitting or standing. I toyed with the idea of building a desk for a while. I looked at various desks and just didn't see exactly what I wanted. The overall plan was to pull the carpet out and put in a new hardwood floor. A few months back I decided it was time to tackle the room and make it what I wanted. There are no clients to entertain or anything like that, so it served me ok for a couple years. It was not all that nice of a place, but I just need a place to work on the computer and make phone calls. I had a giant garage storage shelf in there to hold stuff (office supplies, printers, networking equipment, etc.). It had some ratty old green carpet when we bought the house and I've been using a plastic folding table I bought at Wal-Mart for my desk. I have a dedicated room that is my office and it needed some updating. For the past 2 1/2 years, I've worked from home.
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