Custom Desks
Commission a custom desk from independent furniture makers across the US, sized to your room and the way you work. Makers here build live-edge and industrial steel desks, L-shaped and executive desks, roll-top desks, Shaker and Arts and Crafts writing desks, secretaries, small desks and standing-height desks.
Featured
Walnut Parsons Style Desk With Granite Top
by BERT RABBE
Walnut Colonial Style Writing Desk
by Doug McPherson
Walnut And Curly Maple Writing Table Desk
by Drew Quinn
Arts & Crafts Fall Front Secretary/Desk
by James Eddy
Featured Makers
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Paul Carlino
The Carlino Gallery
Lockport, NYPassion for design, meticulous craftsmanship and unwavering respect for Nature’s beauty. For me, crea...
Jason Knies
FurnitureXDesign
Orange, VAFurniture By Design is an all purpose furniture company, specializing in quality custom built furnit...
Michael Cooper
Cooper's Custom Projects
Danvers, MACooper's Custom Projects is a small wood shop where we have a passion for building well-constructed k...
Christian Donnelly
Philosophy with a Hammer
Baltimore, MDPhilosophy with a Hammer is a furniture and design company located in Baltimore, MD. We specialize in...
About Desks
Desks here include live-edge desks in walnut and white oak, industrial desks in steel and reclaimed wood, some on I-beam bases, and L-shaped desks with returns. Traditional pieces run from roll-top desks and secretaries to Shaker and Arts and Crafts writing desks, alongside Parsons desks, narrow and small desks for tight spaces, acrylic desks, and standing-height and computer desks.
Listings also show the details that make a desk work: dovetailed drawers on soft-close slides, keyboard pull-outs, cable holes with matching covers, built-in outlets and USB charging, and a remote-controlled monitor lift.
What sets the price
A listing's price is usually a starting point. Half of the listings here are priced between about $1,400 and $6,000, with a median near $3,200, and one in ten is priced above $11,700. Size and shape, the wood or steel, the number of drawers, and built-in power and cable management set the price of a commission.
Before you start
- The space: wall length, corner measurements for an L-shaped desk, and windows, vents and outlets.
- How you work: writing, one or more monitors, a printer, sitting or standing, and your chair height.
- Storage: drawers, file drawers, a keyboard tray.
- Where power and data come in.
- The route into the room for a large top.
For matching office pieces, see Desk Chairs, Office Bookcases and Conference Tables; for front-desk counters, see Reception Desks.
Describe the desk with the materials, size, budget and date you have in mind, and makers who do this work send proposals. You pay a 50% deposit on the one you approve, see the finished desk by photos, video call or studio visit, and pay the balance once you approve it; Maker Marketplace holds that payment while it ships.
Frequently asked questions
Tell the maker your height, your chair's seat height and what you'll do at the desk, and they can set the height to suit. Writing, typing and standing work each call for a different working height, and standing-height desks are among the listings here. If more than one person will use the desk, say so.
Yes. Listings show cable holes with matching wood covers, built-in outlets and USB charging, a table that doubles as a desk with outlets and lights, and a remote-controlled monitor lift. Tell the maker what you plug in, where the nearest outlets are, and whether cables should drop through the top or run inside the desk.
Measure both walls from the corner, note windows, vents and outlets, and decide which side the return goes on and how deep each surface should be. Say where you sit, and where the monitors and storage go. Large L-shaped and U-shaped tops may be built in sections, so ask how the desk ships and who assembles it.
Each proposal states the maker's timeline before you pay a deposit. On Maker Marketplace, custom furniture and large pieces typically take four to twelve weeks to build, and shipping time comes on top. If you need the desk by a set date, such as an office move, include it in your request so proposals can be planned around it.
