Sean is sitting in a fancy chair

We're slaves to fashion. Furniture fashion. And it's such a shame that pretty furniture costs a pretty penny.

We were extremely pleased when we discovered a high style chair at CB2 that did not have a corresponding high price. (On clearance, 50% off!) With the sale price it cost only a bit more than your standard home-office chair, but looks so much not blugly. Because we all hate blugly chairs. (You know who you are, Office Max.)

We took the opportunity to replace our desk with a piece of IKEA furniture that we'd bought last fall... it was meant for the bedroom but simply didn't fit, and sat against the wall in its requisite cardboard flat-pack for eons. Eons of weeks.

The IKEA thing is meant to straddle over a queen bed and act as an occasional table, so as a desk it's much longer and thinner than a normal desk. But we think it gives the workspace a graceful feel, especially coupled with the clean-lines of the low fancy chair.




Before: residue from Sean's bachelor days



Pile of cardboard boxes notwithstanding, we now have a custom modernistish workspace that cost less than $200.

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