LINNMON/ FINNVARD | The Mace Place

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…

LINNMON/FINNVARD Table IKEA You can choose a flat or tilted table top, which is good for writing, painting or drawing, by adjusting the trestle.

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…