I moved into a new place a little over a month ago and wanted to buy a desk for my room. Everyone either had an ikea desk or really recommended an ikea desk. I decided to drive an hour to ikea for the desk, and was amazed by everything. The food was amazing, the showrooms incredible. I took inspiration from the showrooms and other setups online to design my own room using the ikea design tool. I am really loving my new setup, and will be visiting ikea more to buy more stuff.
Hey everyone, this is my first time writing on this sub. I love all of the creations people have made with the Alex drawers and the countertops at IKEA.
I noticed that one of the colors for the alex drawers is blue-black, but I don’t see it currently listed on the US market. However, I do see it on overseas IKEA websites and I was hoping that it would come to the US website sometime soon. Does anyone know if it was ever sold here in the states? Or if it will ever be sold? Aside from black it’s my favorite color of the drawers, and I would love it in my setup.
I see a lot of 60cm set ups but not much for 90cm.
I want to put a 240cm by 90cm desk in this space. I need more than the 60cm depth - out desks are workspaces as much as a pc station.
Width because I want to have a set up on one side for adults (twin monitors on arms) and one on the other side for kids pc (start with a stand alone monitor and either one of our old laptops or a cheap nuc box to run some kid friendly Linux distro.
Has anyone used the 246x90 cm bench tops?
I was thinking an Alex in the middle and legs in the corners and 2/3 back mid span. I don’t like the idea of boxing in with Alex in corners because the main aim is space. Potentially also run some angle iron around the hidden edges form sag support
Also keen on thoughts for the floating shelves above - in a rental so ideally find a way to suspend off the shelves..
My plan is to place my son’s PC on the shelf, which weighs approximately 12–15 kg.
My question is: **Do I need to mount the brackets directly into a wall stud, or would using suitable wall fixings with the additional brackets provide enough support for this weight?**
I recently rebuilt my desk setup and thought I'd share it, as I spent quite a while looking at options like the Secretlab Magnus.
I really liked the idea of the Magnus, especially the integrated cable management, but once I started adding up the desk and accessories, the price was getting pretty ridiculous.
So I decided to see if I could get a similar clean result using an IKEA MITTZON 160 × 80 cm**,** some aftermarket parts and a few things reused from my previous desk.
The main objective was simple:
Only TWO cables should leave the desk: one power cable and one Ethernet cable.
Everything else, including the PC, monitors, laptop, power supplies, USB devices and chargers, needed to be contained within the desk setup.
What I bought
IKEA
MITTZON 160 × 80 cm desk, oak veneer/white: £190
KOPPLA 3-way socket with 2 USB ports: £15
Aftermarket
Montek under-desk PC mount: £45.99
Dual monitor arms: £74
Cable trunking: £11
Brennenstuhl Premium-Line 12-way power strip
USB switch with remote button
Various replacement cables in specific lengths
So the desk + KOPPLA + PC mount + monitor arms + trunking came to:
£335.99
That's before the Brennenstuhl power strip, USB switch and cables, and I reused some parts from my old desk.
Desktop PC + work laptop
One requirement was being able to use the same setup with both my desktop PC and my work laptop without constantly messing around with cables.
For that I added a USB switch with a remote button.
My peripherals can stay permanently connected and I just hit the button to switch them between the desktop and laptop.
Cable management
This probably took the most planning.
Rather than buying loads of 2m/3m cables and then trying to hide all the excess, I worked out roughly how long every individual cable actually needed to be.
A surprisingly useful trick:
Use string.
I ran a piece of string along the exact route that each cable would eventually take, measured it, wrote the measurement down and then added about 15% extra length as contingency.
For the monitors, I measured with the arms extended so there would still be enough slack for the monitors to move without putting tension on the DisplayPort/HDMI/power cables.
Then I ordered cables as close as possible to those measurements.
It takes more planning upfront, but it massively reduces the amount of excess cable you have to hide afterwards.
A warning about monitor arms and the MITTZON
If anyone is thinking about doing something similar, CHECK YOUR CLAMP DIMENSIONS AND CLEARANCES BEFORE BUYING YOUR MONITOR ARMS.
Mine only just fit.
There's limited space between the wooden sections around the MITTZON's rear cable-management area.
Fortunately, the arms I bought fit between them and I didn't have to cut or modify the wooden access hatch itself.
However, I did have to cut into the felt cable-management shroud underneath to make enough room for the monitor-arm clamps.
It worked out nicely, but another monitor arm with a slightly larger mounting mechanism might not fit without more substantial modification.
So measure first!
Power
For power distribution I'm using a Brennenstuhl Premium-Line 12-way power strip underneath the desk.
The idea was to create one central power point for everything associated with the setup rather than having multiple extension leads and power cables leaving the desk.
Combined with the MITTZON's built-in cable-management area and the additional trunking, almost everything can disappear underneath.
The end result is what I originally wanted:
1 × mains power cable 1 × Ethernet cable
That's essentially all that needs to leave the desk.
Things I'd still improve
It's definitely not completely finished.
The biggest thing bothering me at the moment is the rear of the PC. I'd like to find or make a white cable shield so that when you look behind the setup you don't see the cables coming out of the back of the PC.
Longer term I'm also thinking about:
White/grey/black wireless keyboard and mouse
White monitor arms
White key lights
Better shielding around the rear PC cables
But overall I'm extremely happy with how it turned out.
I basically wanted to find out:
"Can I get the clean, integrated cable-management look I liked about the Secretlab setup without spending Secretlab money?"
For around £336 for the core desk and mounting/cable-management hardware, plus the additional power/USB/cabling bits, I think it came out pretty well.
anyone knows how to move the table to the other side ive tried looking up tutorials but i couldnt find it i wanna change it from the left to the middle kinda thing
I've been looking for a desk that can clear the baseboard heater in my room. There's really only one corner in my room a desk could fit and I'd love for it to fit flush against the wall.
There's a 2.5"~ gap from the wall to the heater and the heater is approximately 27" long. It is also 7" tall.
I'm wondering if the space between the legs and the distance of that middle support bar will clear the heater. If not what could you guys suggest? I thought of possibly getting the lagkapten/Alex drawer desk and slightly altering the position of the forward facing leg to be just in front of the heater and the back leg inbetween the wall and the heater. I don't use the heater at all but removing it from the wall isn't an option. Can take more pictures if need be. What would y'all suggest? Cheers!
Moving in a few days and want to refresh my desk setup. Initially I had been considering one of the Karlsby and Alex configurations or something similar, but then I saw MULLSJÖ. I think it's a newer model but maybe I've just overlooked it in the past. Anyone here tried it?
Not going to be using anything too heavy, single 27" monitor on a regular stand and an audio interface, maybe two Rokit 5s if they fit. I do worry about durability but otherwise it seems like a nice compact option for a bit less money.
From the materials section it appears to be made of the same type of filler as Karlsby, so it should be more solid than the honeycomb options, but I'm not overly familiar with their labeling, it's a little vague
I can’t find a good IKEA desk that is closer to 30” in depth while also being 55”+ in length (i may be getting LxWxH order messed up sorry) . i’m looking for a good tableTop to use with Alex drawers to complete the desk set up. Does anyone have any recommendations? ive tried 55x24 and seems slightly too small, but I’ve only seen it in person blank in showrooms, etc. So if anybody could tell me whether or not 24” depth isn’t a problem in their experience I would appreciate that too
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My plan is to place my son’s PC on the shelf, which weighs approximately 12–15 kg.
My question is: Do I need to mount the brackets directly into a wall stud, or would using suitable wall fixings with the additional brackets provide enough support for this weight?
I'm looking at putting together a desk and for the monitor I have the typical 25 inch butchers blocks won't work for me so im looking ag a 5ftx30 inch butchers block. I'm just concerned about leaving that much overhang on the front or back of the drawers. I'm just looking for tips or even photos if someone has a similar setup.
As much as I've tried to "get good" at using a controller and aiming with my right thumb, I suck at it. It hasn't worked for the last 40 years and it isn't going to start now. I am pro on the trackball however.
So I combined the best of both worlds. Keyboard and mouse with a living room style setup. So far pretty happy with the results! With shooter games the trackball really does well, it's a little fiddly with right click to bring up your weapon and aim. I feel like I need a foot switch, lol.
Why the lagkapten? Because that is the only one tha t gives 200cm space and also fits in my budget.
i have already used the 100cm Lagkapten. For my new setup I am planning to use a Monitor arm with 2 27 inch monitors on it. To ensure weight is distributed evenly, I will be using a reinforcement plate. I have read that people are using it in this way on the Lagkapten.
I have two options for legs: Either go with the Spand storage rack on both sides or go with some combination of Spand + alex or only Alex drawers.
In both the cases, I will put an Adils leg in the center.
I am confused which will provide more stability and will be easy to assemble without tools.
Cost is a concern. The lagkapten with 2 spand costs 11k for me.
Alex is on a sale right now. So 2 alex costs me around 17k instead of the usual 21k. If it is really a lot better, I can spend a little extra.
