I have been keeping my eyes peeled for a desk/art station for my office. I have been checking craigslist and looking around online. I knew I wanted something like this…
or this…
I love both of these drafting desks, I think it is pretty sweet that you can change the height of them or put them on an angle whenever you want. Plus they are pretty cool looking, which is a bonus.
So this was my ideal desk, although I though that if I found an antique one that was solid wood(not painted) on craigslist I could go that way as well. But, I headed to IKEAs website and found this…
Does that look familiar? It is the exact desk in the second photo above! It is a Linnmon/Finnvard table in white/beech and at $85 I was sold, plus shipping it came to around $130 which is still not bad. So I ordered that sucker and about a week later came home to this…
Wahoo! Just one week!
After a couple days of that huge box laying in our front room I decided I should assemble this thing. So I hauled the box into the office and got to it.
Once I got everything out, I had a ton of pieces of wood and a booklet of instructions, all in pictures! Just my kind of instructions. So basically I followed the pictures and tried to replicate what it looked like was going on in the 2D stick figure picture.
I am on the first photo here.
Next thing I knew I had one of the stands built.
Then I added the shelf…
Here is the top of the desk, which I had nothing to assemble since it is just one solid piece…
Once I had both stands built, I just popped the desk piece right on top of them, it stays in place because it has two small posts that stick out and insert into little holes on top of the legs. Make sense? Probably not, in other words when I tilt it upward the top of the desk will not fall in my lap.
Here she is all built…
See my desk’s friend? I got that guy at Lowes. I saw it and had to have it…
Only $49, I think that is a steal for a standing lamp that isn’t a piece of crap. Here he is standing with all of his friends at Lowes…
I love how the tri-podish legs of the lamp are similar to the legs of the desk…
So those are my new additions to my office/art room. What do you think?
The Mace Place 
Hi, I am also looking for a drafting table, I am a photographer and fashion designer and I am looking to purchase the same table you have from Ikea. I just wanted to find out if you think this is a good quality table to work on and if it has held up since you put it together? Simply put, how would you rate it on a scale of 1 to 10?
Thanks,
ps. It looks so good, can’t wait to seal the deal!
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I love this desk. I would rate it a 10 out of 10. It was easy to assemble, works great for a nice flat workspace, it’s nice looking and very affordable! I love IKEA for their great prices. Hope this advice helps!
~Vanessa
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How did you attach the table top to the stands. I have the exact same items and there are no instructions for attaching the table top. What did you do?
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There are small wooden pegs that should come with the desk. You will see holes that they fit into on the desk frame and also the back of the desk top. It is held in place by the pegs and can be removed easily if you would like. Thanks for reading!!
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Random, but I found this post from a google search on this table. Did your prefab holes on the bottom of the table line up with the Finnvard trestles? Mine do not line up! Thanks!
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I hope I am understanding your question correctly. My table top has pegs at the top that fall into holes in the trestle legs. They do line up accurately, but we did have to spread them far enough apart to make the pegs drop into the aligning holes. I hope that helps!
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just wanted to say i like how you post photos of everything, like the lamp at lowes. it’s cool to see how ikea would ship it too. it’s the kind of thing i wish i (and everyone else) did too.
hope the table is still going strong, looks lovely.
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Thank you so much!
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I put this together, but I’m wondering of I missed something. On the last page, it shows two different types of “posts”, a screw in and a screw with a spacer and insert. I installed the screw/spacer/insert combo on the end farthest from the seated position. What keeps the near side of the linnmon legs from rotating out or in?
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How has this desk held up for you? I am thinking of using these trestles with a different IKEA top as a sewing table. I really love the look of them.
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It has held up great! It was a great purchase!
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I am SO frustrated!! Just purchased these items and there is no way to attach the top to the treasels! There are not pre-drilled holed big enough to accept the screws that come with the tressels to keep the top in place!! How do I do this??
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