Desks
A desk in a small UK home is often in a bedroom, on a landing, or pretending to be a dining table. The useful questions are depth, where the chair goes, and whether you can close the laptop without the room still looking like an office.
Key buying considerations
Measure the wall, the chair pull-out, and the door swing. Depth is the usual killer.
Chair space is part of the desk
A 50cm-deep wall desk is useless if the chair blocks the bed. Measure the pull-out, not just the worktop.
Wall-mounted needs a real wall
Plasterboard, radiators and window sills limit folding desks. Renters may need a slim table that can move.
Cables in a bedroom
One socket strip and a hook for headphones keep the 'office' from spreading across the bedside table.
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