I spent some time today working outside and in the garage. One of the things I’ve had in the garage that I’ve needed to get rid of since we moved is my old desk. It was a monstrous black-and-woodgrain laminated thing that I got back in 1997. It was the kind of some-assembly-required desk, the pieces of which fit together with screws and locking cams. These kinds of desks weren’t meant to be disassembled and reassembled, as with each dis- or reassembly, the locking pieces get more and more loose. When we moved, I threw away the hutch that fastened to the desktop. Eventually, I bought a new smaller desk, and the Goliath desk was taken apart and stored in the garage.
Today, I finally threw most of the Goliath desk away. I say “most”, because I decided to repurpose two of the largest pieces of the desk. The wood-grain-lamenated desktop is now a smooth work surface for the workbench. The black lamenated back panel of the desk is fastened to the wall studs. I’m using that to mount tools that I might need handy when working.
It’s kind of a cheap way to quasi-recycle the desk, but I think it actually makes the garage workbench look cleaner — at least at first glance.
“Before” pictures would have helped sell the new workbench space, but I always forget to take “before” shots.
Here’s the new workspace:
Here’s a wider shot of the clean part of the workbench, along with the photoframe I’ve been working on, which I’ve loving dubbed “The Frankenframe”. The other unseen end of the workbench is currently being used for storage of old paint cans:
