These are desks chosen for spare rooms, box rooms and the corner of a lounge, so the emphasis is footprint rather than a cut down specification. The Impulse Slimline comes with a cantilever, cable managed or panel end leg in the same finishes as the office range, the Air and Air Lite height adjustable slimline desks bring sit stand working home with cable ports in the top, and the Chester Boutique and Fleur Smart Storage desks look like furniture rather than office kit. If space is less tight than you feared, the full office desks and straight desks ranges are worth a look first.
Choosing a desk for a room that is not an office
Depth is the number that decides whether a home desk works. Office desks are often 800mm deep and a slimline model trims that back, which can be the difference between a door opening fully and catching the corner. Measure the wall, then the route in: loft stairs, tight landings and a turn at the top have defeated more desks than any weight limit.
Height adjustment is worth the extra if the desk is shared or used all day, and one that drops low again suits a child doing homework at it. In a small room, a smaller top plus a monitor arm beats a bigger desk with a screen stand hogging the back edge. The other common regret is a desk with no cable route: an Air top with ports keeps leads out of sight, and the clips in cable management do the same for tops without them. Compare sizes across height adjustable desks and the Air sit-stand collection.
The bits that make it usable
A dining chair will do for a fortnight and then start telling you about it, so budget for something from task and operator chairs alongside the desk. For paperwork, a compact unit from pedestals and drawers tucks under most slimline tops.
Home office desks delivered around Ipswich and Suffolk
Office Masters is the online shop of Neil Andrew Office Solutions, a family run business at Edison Close on Ransomes Europark in Ipswich, trading since Malcolm Andrew's day in the 1980s and relaunched under Neil's name in 2017. We deliver to homes as readily as to offices, whether that is a cottage outside Woodbridge, a new build in Sudbury or a converted garage near Bury St Edmunds, free to UK mainland addresses and usually within five working days.
Flat packed desks are a fair evening's work with two people, less fun alone. Pre build and installation is an option instead, with the desk carried to the room you actually want it in. Kitting out several homeworkers? Ring 01473 464644 and we will deliver to each address separately.
