| There is something about a small desk that appeals | | | | to get a lovely faux Queen Anne desk to use one |
| to me. Okay it's not just something random, it is | | | | example. The Queen Anne style has exquisite long |
| something specific. With a small desk, I am less apt | | | | slender curved legs. |
| to have the desktop completely cluttered. This is odd | | | | The problem I saw with one of these was that the |
| because common sense would suggest that a smaller | | | | desk was really faux. It was inexpensive and looked |
| space would be more cluttered. Maybe this is | | | | marvellous and if all you wanted to use it for was as |
| because of my manner of cluttering. I don't cover | | | | a decoration, it worked beautifully. But because it |
| the desktop with envelopes and paper and larger | | | | was just for decorative purposes, this desk was |
| items. I keep pens, paper clips and elastics and tiny | | | | useless as a functioning desk. It could not support a |
| things like that piling up on the desk. | | | | laptop. Well, it could if it was a small laptop and it was |
| A small desk doesn't create the kind of space that | | | | not being used. But the minute you started typing on |
| these small things need. But that is just me. On a | | | | it, the whole desk wobbled. |
| desk, one pen would not make it messy looking, but | | | | Another problem I witnessed was with an antique |
| a dozen pens might. In any case, because of my | | | | small desk. It was glorious in appearance and made a |
| affection for a small desk, I have quite an eye for | | | | perfect accessory to the room it was in. But it was |
| this piece of furniture. Rather than telling you about | | | | completely unusable as a desk because of the quality |
| the choices available and talking about the types of | | | | of its antiquity. No one could relax at this desk |
| wood or other materials that you should look for in a | | | | enough to use it as a functioning piece of furniture. |
| desk, let me tell you instead about a couple of things | | | | What if you scratched it? |
| I have observed that just don't work. | | | | In both these cases, they were lovely to look at but |
| There is a caveat I should mention here and that is | | | | disastrous to use. If you do buy such a desk, think |
| these observations reflect my own taste. You might | | | | about its role in your life. Do you want to look at it |
| not agree with me. There are so many furniture | | | | or use it? |
| styles and so many reproductions that it is possible | | | | |