Corner Desk Package in Rattan and Ash

A working setup in one delivery, sized for a working corner in a living room, set up to be closed down at the end of the day. Everything is under 800mm wide and none of it looks like office furniture.

A package is cheaper than the pieces bought separately and, more usefully, it arrives in one delivery on one day. Furnishing a flat one item at a time from four different shops means four deliveries, four assembly sessions and four sets of packaging to get rid of, which in a flat with no garage is its own problem. Everything in a package is in the same material and the same finish batch, and it is all sized to work together in the floor area stated rather than simply to be small individually.

Specification

• Dimensions: every piece under 800mm wide
• Floor footprint: about 1.0 square metres
• Material: a solid ash frame with hand woven rattan panels, which is the lightest way to make a cabinet that is not just a box
• Finish: one finish batch across the package
• Capacity: desk rated to 80kg, shelving to 35kg per shelf
• Assembly: flat packed, about 3 hours in total
• Getting it in: Flat packed in 5 cartons, largest 820mm by 1200mm by 320mm. Through a standard 762mm door: on its side, yes. Into a small lift: yes
• Weight: approximately 48.4 kilograms
• Contents: one 700mm folding wall desk, one 400mm mobile drawer unit, one folding chair, one 600mm narrow bookcase
• Desk height: 740mm fixed, or specify 720mm or 760mm at no charge
• Cable management: a tray and a grommet on every desk in the package
• Saving against buying separately: about 12 per cent
• One delivery slot, two person delivery to the room

What you get

• One 700mm folding wall desk
• One 400mm mobile drawer unit
• One folding chair
• One 600mm narrow bookcase
• Cable trays, grommets and clips
• Felt pads on every foot
• One hex key and one spanner
• A layout sheet showing the cable runs, which is the part people get wrong

Assembly

Flat packed and best done by two people, mostly for the moment you stand it up. About an hour with a hex key and a spanner, both in the box. Fittings are cam locks and threaded steel inserts, so it comes apart and goes back together properly rather than chewing out the panel.

If you are renting

Freestanding, no wall fixing needed and no holes in anybody's plaster. An anti tip strap is in the box if you want it and there is nothing to make good if you never use it. Felt pads are fitted to every foot as standard, because the other way to lose a deposit is a scratch across a floor you did not lay.