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Originally posted by Daniel:
I'd like to not have pressbord because it rots in tropical climates.

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Originally posted by BeeLady:
If you are feeling creative, might there be some lumber yards in Hawaii that have cut down local trees and saw boards?

I just bought the most amazing piece of old heart pine, just 30 inches long, from an old house...It is now one of those cute bath trays over my old claw foot tub.

If you are handy, a nice slab of wood cut to size and then you can add legs from IKEA, hairpin legs or some such.

Much more fun and satisfying than Amazon and one of a kind!

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:
No luck on Amazon, but I did find this teak desk on the Walmart website.

Out of stock, but maybe you can find it somewhere else:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ast...iting-Desk/384627138

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Originally posted by Axtremus:

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Originally posted by Daniel:
I'd like to not have pressbord because it rots in tropical climates.

Would you consider glass desk?

Perhaps try searching for "glass desk" on Amazon and see if anything catches your eyes?

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Originally posted by Amanda:

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Originally posted by BeeLady:
If you are feeling creative, might there be some lumber yards in Hawaii that have cut down local trees and saw boards?



I just bought the most amazing piece of old heart pine, just 30 inches long, from an old house...It is now one of those cute bath trays over my old claw foot tub.

If you are handy, a nice slab of wood cut to size and then you can add legs from IKEA, hairpin legs or some such.

Much more fun and satisfying than Amazon and one of a kind!

I got all the way through university using a desk made of a door atop file cabinets on the sides. (Or was one side inexpensive drawers? Memory!)

I loved it - so much work space. (You'd want solid wood, of course).

I bought it the first week I arrived as I drove past an informal little sales set-up in front of a suburban house. Entrepreneurial students had put them together and were clearly doing very well. I've never understood why most students (in off-campus housing) don't do the same.

Pretty sure it only cost me $10 (in the dollars of the day). For that matter in my first shared apartment, we improvised boards on top of cinder blocks for bookshelves.