I replaced my old oak desk and the second, smaller desk in my office with two, sleek, new Galant desks from IKEA. I couldn’t be happier with them. 28 square feet of beautiful space. Enough room for the whole family to share without bumping elbows.

Here’s the configuration I bought:

2 Galant 63"x32" table tops with frames 3 “T” legs 1 Extension kit (to connect the two frames)

The tables are connected side-by-side with the extension kit so I now have a 126"x32" desk that spans an entire wall of my office. Bliss! It went together in about 90 minutes. It would have been slightly faster if The Boy hadn’t disappeared one of the wrenches.

“Cheap but good” pretty much sums up how I feel about IKEA.

Comments

1. Charlie Tan on 2007-02-19 02:33:55 wrote: This looks awesome :) It’s good in a way that the whole family can compute together, but also very sad from a society point of view - time spent together yet so far apart.

2. are you my rik? on 2007-02-19 14:32:23 wrote: we had no idea how much we needed IKEA in our lives until we moved and the closest one is 8 hours away in dallas. we just love that “cheap but good” mix that wal-mart has been trying to get right for years but has mostly just ended up as “cheap” (though our entertainment center that we bought a couple of months ago has yet to fall apart, so they may be on to something there).

3. Brett Creech on 2007-02-19 23:32:47 wrote: I looked on Ikea’s website and didn’t see any desks that look like the ones in your picture accompanying the post. Do you have a product number?

4. John on 2007-02-20 00:07:42 wrote: It’s these guys (Galant desk), although for some reason you can’t get them in black from the website.

5. JGS on 2007-02-20 08:40:32 wrote: It looks like a dream come true. I truly hope one day to have a similar set-up as my Okapis get older.