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CB2 has a bar cabinet that looks similar as well.

have you come across anything else? we really need something like this since the baby was born and the computer is in the living room...

Of course what isn't mentioned is that the Room and Board piece is Made in the USA and comes as a completely built piece of furniture -
- Whereas the Overstock piece is imported from Asia and requires assembly...

...so if you don't care about our friends and neighbors here at home having their jobs sent overseas, by all means get the cheap imported one.

Your Buick is really made in Canada.

Or if you don't have over $1000 just sitting in your bank account to blow on a tiny desk, then buy the Tacoma. We'd all love to be rich, but most of us aren't. Besides I don't mind a little assembly; I have to assemble everything else I buy.

I get bepsf's point. I spent two years designing my bed, but the only affordable manufacturing quote came from an asian factory. When it came time to pull the trigger in october, I decided to scrap the original concept and came up with something that could be made domestically within my budget. I thought it was more important in this economic climate to keep someone working over here rather than get the exact bed I had planned. I am happy with the outcome and I am even happier to have kept local manufacturers and upholsterers working.

And when sitting there, your knees would go.....?

Reminds me of a TV hutch. Just kind of awkward and not very good at anything really.

Last fall I purchased a lovely wooden dining table from Target made in Asia. As the winter progressed, it morphed into a boomerang...things would literally roll off of it. When summer came, it flattened out nicely, as expected, but I find this morphing, while interesting and entertaining, a bit impractical, don't you think? Of course, there was no response from Target other than to contact the mfg. and send the wonky table back to Asia...hmmmm...This winter, we're attempting to stave this off with a bowl of water underneath it. And just a note: It doesn't sit unusually close to a heat source...just a baseboard radiator. I've never seen this happen with a piece of furniture in my life. We had a different wooden table & chairs (made in No. Carolina) in that spot for years and they never warped.

Newsagwa, you pull the keyboard tray out (probably further than shown) and then your knees fit under it.

I like to be able to stretch my legs underneath my desk...this doesn't look like it would give me much, if any, leg room.

I have a desk from the Staples Loft collection in my room that looks a lot like those. Only mine has two doors instead of one and the keyboard tray is behind the doors. I actually find it not too bad on comfort. I'm a tall guy, and my knees fit under the keyboard tray pretty nicely. If I want to stretch my legs, I sit sideways.

One of my slight complaints is that I can't close the doors if I have the computer on because it would suffocate the computer.

These "cube desks" as I like to call them are great for small spaces. But I'd consider a normal desk if I had a larger space.