desk

Transform a Student Desk into a Spin Art Station

Transform a Student Desk into a Spin Art Station

If these little student desks conjure up images of exams, sustained silent reading, and learning fractions, take a look at Pete Mills’ SpinArt Desk, which puts an artistic “spin” on these boring mini workstations. Pete found the desk for $10 at a local ReUse Center and added a box fan motor to make a piece […]

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How-To: Design and Build a Custom Desk

How-To: Design and Build a Custom Desk

Inspired by the minimalist design of his iMac, Jordan Patterson from The Cheap Geek created a custom desk for his office that would hide his power and ethernet cables. He designed the desk in SketchUp and set out to build it with a budget of $150. In order to keep things cheap, he forwent a […]

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Print Your Own Desk Grommet

Print Your Own Desk Grommet

Chris from The New Hobbyist has a black desk but a white grommet for cables to run through, so he decided to model and print a new one with black plastic on his MakerBot. (It’s shown above installed in a white surface for illustrative purposes; it blended in too well with his black desk.) He […]

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How-To: Polished concrete desk

How-To: Polished concrete desk

Instructables user hivoltage shows us how to pour and polish a concrete desk top, even with some embedded fiber optic cables. Looks great!

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Airplane wing desk

Airplane wing desk

(Image via Ecofriend) Isn’t spending $4200 on a desk made out of an actual airplane wing more important than a few month’s rent? If so, get yours here! Otherwise, anybody know of a good place to find a few abandoned chunks of airplanes?

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