In 1980 or so desktop PCs arrived.  One of my tasks when hired to teach was to figure out what to do with them.  I had a TI-99/4A PC before then so that was why.  Over several years I made many desks, cabinets, and chairs to deal with PCs and the use of them.  Many specifically to handle the bulky CRT monitors and add some cable management and security.   One such project I made for myself I've now added to my blog HERE.  Taking inventory of all the furniture in my house I've rediscovered 2 other desks made specifically to handle PCs and their Peripherals but now serve as collection tables for mostly unused junk. 

Just curious if anyone here has made a PC cabinet or desk?  

4D

Not a complete desk but did add a second shelf to an existing desk to accommodate a CRT monitor and a printer. The monitor has since been replaced with a flat screen LED and the dot matrix printer replaced/ relocated. 

Made a big one. Two oak, drawered pedestals under a slab of Formica covered, oak banded MDF. 36x48 surface.  It's now Phyl's sewing table. Computer is now a one piece flat screen. Way smaller foot print. 

For our son's birthday one year we (James & I) built him a desk for his room from recycled oak pallet material with plywood top and keyboard drawer.  Also made two matching tables to sit below it to sit the computer tower and printer on.

Looking at the picture, I must have given him a set of jack stands also.  This must date it around 2002 maybe, James' 14th birthday.

 

Nice! Great birthday gifts. 

Made this from recycled Oak.  Still used the same today with larger screen.  Cabinet on left housed laser printer and modem.

 

Didn't actually build anything, but as the resident painter/builder/odd-job man at work, I was asked to install many a pull-out keyboard tray on old desks.

I made this computer desk for my son and he is still using it.

 

Well, sort of.  One of my retail customers had sold over a million dollars of furniture to one client for their home.  Needless to say, it was a very wealthy couple.  I think I heard later the home was valued at 14 million.  One of the things I had to do was to go to the wife's office and drill a 3" hole in the top of her new desk for the computer cables and power supplies to be fed thru.  I had to make sure it did not end up right over a drawer or anything and got "their IT guy" to ok the location.   Needless to say, I was very careful.  I did a couple of other odd jobs in their house that were also very tenuous.

I gave this away to a moderator on another forum maybe 10+ years ago.

i almost inherited a 1910 vintage pump organ....almost.

 

back in the day, the poor (my family) could not afford the new fangled phonograph and records, so you had to create your own entertainment, and organs were cheaper and easier to move around than pianos.

 

fast forward about 110 years.....couldn't give it away.....as far as i know, it was sold with the house, and the new owners hauled it to the dump.  i don't know how much my parents paid to move it from CA to MD, and then from MD to WY, but i was determined to break that chain of pointlessly spending money on something that was worthless.

Oh, and with expanding sizes of TV screens, "entertainment centers" are planned obsolescence"   That one built for a 30" tube TV won't hold that 48" flat screen.

28 minutes ago, kmealy said:

That one built for a 30" tube TV won't hold that 48" flat screen.

BTDT!

I've given up on making furniture to hold a TV.   There is one CRT TV left in my house.  It was the only High-def TV sold by Walmart the year my old Sony 21" TV's power supply failed. TV channels were threatening to switch to HDTV and I convinced my wife we should upgrade.   30" diagonally and possible 200 lbs it seemed at the time.  Now I've got a 55" Sharp flatscreen mounted on the wall above my desk.  There to show internet movies on from my PC. 

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4 hours ago, lew said:

BTDT!

Me too but for mine did two towers and a bridge. TV sits on a rolling stand in the middle so towers can be stretched to create larger space.