I have tried several times to set up a writing space in my house and failed several times. The desk, wherever I put it eventually fills up with clutter, overwhelming the space to write. I even tried writing without a desk, setting up shop on my bed. For a while the natural light and view to the back yard compensated for the ergonomic incorrectness. Then I got tennis elbow, which apparently one can contract without setting foot on a tennis court (one of my life goals). And my posture wasn't doing much for my decrepit spine, so I'm trying another approach: the fold-down desk. Despite having to drill into a masonry wall, my tool-savvy husband took only one trip to the hardware store, so I would rate the level of difficulty for the wall-mounting as a 7.5 of 10.
I'm a stranger to anywhere beyond the paint or garden section of a hardware store, so I had to take a picture, like a tourist, when I saw this wall of fasteners (screws, bolts, and all sundry items needed to attach one thing to another). Is the world such a complicated place that we need this many different doo-dahs to hold it together?
An hour and three more holes than required later (the dimensions in the instruction booklet were wrong) and I'm writing at a desk by my bed while looking out into the backyard. When I'm done I just fold the desk up so no one can pile clutter on my writing space. So far so good.
I'm a stranger to anywhere beyond the paint or garden section of a hardware store, so I had to take a picture, like a tourist, when I saw this wall of fasteners (screws, bolts, and all sundry items needed to attach one thing to another). Is the world such a complicated place that we need this many different doo-dahs to hold it together?
