Woodworking Workstation

Cheap computer desks are easy to come by – you just have to be a little creative and willing to do some hunting. So, if you’re looking for an affordable workstation, keep reading for a few great hints and tips on where you can find innovative and creative desks on the cheap.

Shop Tables

Shop and tool tables make a fantastic computer desk substitute. They’re durable, inexpensive, ready to work and even have a unique, industrial design. To increase your makeshift desk’s longevity, throw on a few coats of protective varnish to prevent rings or spills from staining the wood surface.

Build on your workshop style and put up a workman’s peg board over your desk. You can then use it to hang your whiteboard or work and computer supplies like network drives, hubs and other computer peripherals and accessories.

The Build it Yourself Desk

If you have some woodworking skills, you can make your own desk and save a lot of money. Start with a woodworking or carpentry plan for a basic table or a simple desk and you’ll find that with little more than a sheet of plywood and $50, you can build a high-quality desk you will be proud of.

The website Woodworker’s Workshop (woodworkersworkshop.com) offers visitors links to hundreds of free plans for various woodworking and carpentry projects, including desks.

If you don’t own a power saw or are uncomfortable doing your own cutting, you can often have your wood cut for you free of charge at your local hardware store. That means you’ll only be dealing with the final construction and finishing of the desk. Keep in mind though that most hardware stores, to ensure employee safety, limit their cuts to pieces that are at least 12 inches long.

The Reclaimed and Recycled Work Surface

Who says a desk has to be a desk and a table has to be a table? Get creative with your work surfaces and transform a vintage 1950s table into a cool desk or a classic antique flea market find into a traditional office work surface. And yes, you can even buy a used desk and benefit from it too.

The best deals for used furniture can be had at garage sales. You may find some great pieces of furniture at antique malls, flea markets or used goods stores, but the prices often aren’t as great as garage sales. You also won’t have the same bargaining power.

Options at Ikea

So, it may not be as fun as building your own desk or digging through garbage for a gem, but Ikea offers a huge selection of cheap computer desks. While their desks aren’t made from the finest materials or to the highest standards, they are affordable and capable of filling a short term need.

Though there is typically some additional time and labor involved in obtaining an inexpensive and usable computer desk, it’s not all that much, and the savings can be significant. This is at least worth a pause for consideration before purchasing an existing desk retail, or even wholesale.

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It’s no secret that kitchens sell homes, so if you’re looking to put your home on the market take a look at your kitchen and see what kind of updates you can do to make it more appealing to prospective buyers.

Painting is the easiest way to give your kitchen a clean new look. Make sure that you use a good degreaser on the walls in the kitchen before painting as years of cooking can leave your walls sticky with old oil. It’s also not a bad idea to prime the walls before painting to leave the best possible finish for the paint to grip to. Paint the kitchen with a good washable paint; consider bright or off-white with a colored accent wall or strip.

When you’re done with the painting, you may want to add a back splash to your kitchen; back splashes protect the paint above the counter tops from cooking residue and getting banged up from appliances getting moved around on the counters. Backsplashes can be made from the same material as your counters or different types of tiles like ceramic, stone, marble, or metal. Try to stick with materials and colors that are fairly neutral; many prospective buyers don’t want to buy anything too outrageously decorated and a nice neutral palette allows them to customise it to their liking.

If your kitchen is large enough, consider adding a stand-alone workstation; a workstation that isn’t built in gives a prospective buyer the option of using that space however they like, while showing them that a kitchen island is a viable addition to the room. To give yourself an extra special workstation, get a workstation with a butcher block top for cutting on.

Another great way to perk up a kitchen is to add updated lighting; many kitchens have inadequate lighting for working. All the work areas in your kitchen should be lit: sink, food prep areas, and stove. There are a variety of products that work well for under-cabinet lighting which can really brighten up your counter top work space. Adequate lighting by the sink is essential; even if your sink is by a window it’s important to have an artificial light source for washing up when it’s dark outside. Pot lights that are set into the ceiling are nice and bright and are less obvious than other styles of light fixtures.

For those homeowners willing to put more time and money into increasing their kitchen’s appeal, there is also the option of cleaning up or changing the cabinetry. The most simple options for the cabinets: include giving them a good thorough cleaning with a degreaser, paint or refinish them, replace the hardware or cabinet doors, or even just take off the doors and painting the shelves for an open shelf style. If you want to spend a little more you can install new cabinets or custom open shelves in your kitchen.

The limits to what you can do to perk up and update your kitchen are almost endless and mostly depend on how much time and money you want to invest in prepping your home to sell; if you have any questions about which of the available options might give you the most return for your effort, try consulting with a kitchen designer or a realtor for advice.

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