Desks with Storage

This is the largest section in the catalogue, and it splits four ways before you look at a single dimension. Four of these desks come with a drawer unit. Four come with a slide-out keyboard tray. One carries an open bookshelf instead, and four are executive desks with a full file cabinet under one or both ends. They solve different problems and it is worth being honest about which one you actually have.

The drawer desks are for rooms where the desk is the only storage. The unit hangs under the top and rises with it, so the contents stay reachable standing as well as seated, and on the three smaller models the monitor shelf takes 26.4 pounds, which covers a screen and a laptop stand but not a screen on a heavy arm. The trade is depth: a drawer unit occupies the space your knees want, so on the 40 inch top it sits to one side and the usable leg room is narrower than the top suggests. The 63 inch model is the exception, wide enough that the drawers cost nothing in working width.

The keyboard tray desks are for people who type. A tray drops the keyboard roughly two and a half inches below the top, which is the difference between wrists that are flat and wrists that are bent back all day, and it does that without asking the column to go lower than it can. If you have ever put a desk at its minimum height and still found it too high, this is the section that fixes it. The tray also clears the top completely, which is what turns a desk into a place you can write on.

The last two groups are about volume rather than ergonomics. The bookshelf desk swaps drawers for open shelving rated to 154 pounds, which is a real bookcase figure and the right answer when the clutter is books rather than paperwork. The executive desks put a proper file cabinet under a 55 or 71 inch top, one side or both, and they are the only desks here that replace a separate filing unit outright. They also ship in two or three packages, which is worth knowing before a build day is booked.

Beyond those splits the sizes follow the plain desks: 40 and 44 inches for a corner, 48 for the usual case, 55 for two screens, 63 and 71 for a room given over to work. Nearly every model keeps the 28.3 to 46.5 inch column, four presets and the 176 pound rating; the bookshelf desk runs 27.9 to 46.9 inches and publishes no load figure.