Hi everyone, my fiance and I recently moved into our first house. We both have gaming computers and we would like to have nice setups. However this location is a little awkward and we'd like to try to find a way to fit a desk here without it seeming forced. (We're limited by the locations of the outlets in the room.)
Our first thought is to figure out a way to have shelves "filling in" the part of the wall that is further back and put the desk in front of it (we want the desk to face the wall.) My concern is that I'm not sure of a way to do that and make it look authentic, not like we just forced the setup to fit the space/crammed furniture together.
Also worth mentioning we need to buy a new desk anyway so we're not needing it to force-fit an already existing desk of ours.
Does anyone know of a way to make this work and have it look nice? Should we abandon the shelving idea and try something else? Should we try to find a different location entirely?
Any advice greatly appreciated 🙂
by ailasorecargg
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For a stepped wall like that, the shelf-behind-desk approach works really well if you treat the deeper section as a built-in backdrop rather than filler. L-shaped or corner desks are especially useful here since you can orient them to follow the step. IKEA’s ALEX drawers plus a custom tabletop let you match the width exactly to whatever the space allows. For the shelves, going floor-to-ceiling on the deeper part and matching the desk depth makes the whole thing read as intentional rather than patched together. What are the rough widths of each section?