apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

I've done this before and yes, it's very functional. However, the proportions of a door mess up any kind of scale in the rest of the room, IMHO. This picture looks pretty good, but what does this really look like within the context of the room?

I love door-desks. I've used them many times for various things, currently have one as a project table in my garage space. Love it.

I think I'd like it better if it were a nicer looking door. Good idea though, and nice that they used something they already had. The bird is cute, too.

Excellent - This is a good reminder for creative reuse ideas!

I like it. But I would kill for the old tiny desk.

I have a door desk. I didn't bother with buying legs for mine, though. It first sat on top of my digital piano stand.. but when I actually had to use that, I decided to prop it up on two old chairs that were given to me for free. Now it sits perfectly between two walls in my loft space.

I just need two new chairs to sit on. xD

I looked for a reason she might need to sprawl out, and can't figure out if what board where her legs go (that bothered her) was the modesty panel, cannot see clearly what she refers to. How better is the improvement? I agree the doorknob can be a handy place to run wires, but in the final, she has run a wire all the way over from each end of the door to the center hole instead of have the door an eight of an inch out from the wall. Yes, it's an inspiration, though. I think in actuality, this looked better before, unless there's something we're not seeing that makes the update a million times more useful, in addition to being partially snazzy.

I love any sort of re-use ... it's the second of the three R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, not Reading Writing and Arithmetic :-)).

There was also a cool bar in Seattle that had the horizontal door idea - the bar is made of 22 doors and the pub itself is named after this feature: http://www.architecturalclassics.com/blog/22-doors/

Hello everyone! This is Kristin, the owner of the desk. Thank you for your comments (here and on my site). I agree this desk isn't for everyone - it's DIY and also quite large (thankfully the room can handle it - it's up against a wall and I plan to add shelves above it for balance and to not take add'l floor space).

I will also say that I loved my old desk. I bought it at a second hand store about 5 years ago and hated to part with it, but it was simply too small for my needs. I'm a photographer and with my photo gear, computer equipment, prints, etc., I needed room to spread out. Rather than buy something, which wasn't in the budget, we went homemade.

Hope this answers some of your questions to the what and why. It didn't turn out exactly like I pictured, but you can't beat the price and I'm mostly grateful for the extra room.

Cheers. :)