Modular desk

[haywale239]

what are your thoughts on this desk?
do you think it could succced?

[WereCat]

Meh. It will be expensive and for such a price I can pay someone to build me the exact desk I want. It's not like I am changing the desk layout every once in a while.

Maybe for a very niche market.

Cool idea though.

[Alariel]

All those grooves where the lots of little pieces are put together would drive me insane. If I ever had need of a really costum desk I'd rather just pay someone to build it to specs and not have to compromise like that. I can't imagine very many people would have need of the option to play lego with their office desk anyway, once it's set up the way they want it most people would leave it alone.

[manikyath]

two things:

- ikea

- custom desks

 

either it'll be cheap and suck, like ikea funiture, or it'll be expensive, like custom made desks.

also, that looks hideous. if they cant make it look like magic in their marketing material, imagine how bad it'll be when in front of you.

 

there's a few other details i'd like to touch on, but i'd gladly see their "decades of experience" and "generations of woodcrafting tradition" do better than what runs in my family.

[HarryNyquist]

49 minutes ago, manikyath said:

either it'll be cheap and suck, like ikea funiture, or it'll be expensive, like custom made desks.

It'll be expensive and it'll suck. Look at all that all-metal hardware and wood. The reason Ikea is so cheap is because most of their cheap furniture is a thin piece of veneer and cardboard (the Lack tables especially). Even Ikea furniture can get up there if you buy the more solid stuff. In order to keep it cheap, then they skimp out on the hardware. The legs of my current Bekant desk wobble like hell and there's no fixing that easily, it's just the cost-cutting engineering that they stopped offering A-legs and moved to T-legs only.

 

Also, each desk top piece is a separate entity? Holy crap, good luck making the desk surface flush. You'd need a glass pane atop the desk just to have a flat(ish) surface to write on. This is DOA if it even materializes.

[manikyath]

Just now, HarryNyquist said:

a thin piece of veneer and cardboard

which, if it doesnt have to carry lots of weight, is pretty good in terms of cost and especially weight shedding.

1 minute ago, HarryNyquist said:

Also, each desk top piece is a separate entity? Holy crap, good luck making the desk surface flush.

that'll be suck++ ultimate edition. it'll be possible, and then your solid wood responds to changes in temperature and moisture levels and you can start all over.

[SansVarnic]

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