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elephantbitterhead · 2 years

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At long last, I have found a desk that satisifies my seemingly-simple-yet-somehow-actually-impossibly-arcane demands. It's a close cousin to the desk I left behind before moving to Scotland, minus that desk's ~200lb slate top (which is why I rejected the possibility of shipping it here). After 12 years without a desk, I'm looking forward to putting things in drawers & pulling out those little slab shelves.

Its top is also nicely aged/dinged up & I will enjoy running my hands over it -- see below:

It's going to be a tight squeeze to get it into the room where I plan to use it, so let's hope I can channel my crafty-furniture-mover persona (or that the top comes off easily).

#I do not know what is up with current desk trends #everything is either scaffolding wood badly stained & somehow steampunked with pipes #or like a flimsy-looking door on hairpin legs #occasionally you can find something attractive but then of course the price is ludicrous #and even on an expensive desk #something has happened where no one seems to want drawers #drawers are key to the desk experience for me #that's ~40% of the reason to have a desk #anyhow I think this desk & I will be happy together #although now I have to find a CHAIR for fuck's sake #let's hope that doesn't take another 12 years #every chair I've liked costs more than the desk did #so we're not off to a great start

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