Ordinarily when I do a piece of furniture I do it with proper joinery and I try to make it to last forever. Covid has recently forced me to work from home and after borrowing desks from other family members for several months and no end for Covid in sight I felt it was time for me to have my own desk. I had limited space to put it and it was where I have to sit all day so I needed something practical. The width (36 inches) was set by the space I had, the depth (26 inches) was set by my desk at work which allowed me to have a monitor a certain distance away from me and the height (30 inches) was typical for the desks I already had.
I mentioned that I usually do proper joinery but for this desk I wasn't really sure on the design so I decided to to with simple screws with filled holes and a painted finish. This meant a quick build and if I don't like it I'm not out much time. The whole thing took a weekend. The last piece of the puzzle was the keyboard tray I got off of Amazon that took a few days to arrive. I made the width a bit bigger than I was going to because it had to fit the tray. A few decorative angle supports allowed it to fit perfectly and it needed the 26 inch depth. I have a wire chase in the back and it just fit in front of that.
Since this was going to be my all day desk I decided to splurge on a curved monitor which was much bigger than my last one. Even when we go back to work I can still use this on days I work from home so it might as well be easy on the eyes. Since this was a painted finish I went with a permanent monitor mount. This cleared up space on the desktop and made sure I had a nice secure mount for the monitor. I finished things up with a grommet for wires and one with a plugin with USB outlets. I now have virtually no wires on top and the thing is quite comfortable for working all day with the reduced blue light curved monitor and keyboard tray.
