New Desk

For years I’ve been using a table as my desk. Which is to say, I’ve been using that table to store my printer on top of. The table is kind of weird because it’s the kind where it has wings on the sides that can be propped up to make the table bigger. So I pretty much couldn’t actually sit at the desk and do... desk-y things, whatever they may be. I took a look at the Ikea website and found a desk that was really super cute. And thus, I decided to buy a new desk.

Now, I’ve been stuff from Ikea before, so I know what kind of putting-together skills it entails. Skills I just happen to have! This desk was actually challenging to assemble, by myself at least. It required a certain amount of coordination to both hold things in place, fighting gravity, while also hammering or drilling. The hardest part was probably moving the desk into place. I built it in the middle of my living room; to move it over to the part of my living room/office was a feat. I couldn’t just push it; due to the way it was set up, it probably would have ripped off one of the legs. My ingenious solution was to actually lay down underneath it and lift it with my legs!

Phhft, those directions said a partner was required to build; what do they know!!