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How to choose the best colour for a PC desk?

Furniture Ferret: The colour scheme in your home can be a bit accidental, but it has considerable effect on how you feel in your space. The two things to consider for everything colour is balance and associations. Balance means that the colours should ideally be coordinated, so that it looks like a unit instead of a random collection of elements. Usual techniques to achieve this are considering a colour wheel, and choosing colours that are either quite close to each other, or relatively far, for example on opposite sides of the wheel (complementary colours like red and green). Associations with and emotions connected to colours are also important, and there is no shortage of lists for these from those by 19th-century Impressionist painters to modern interior design guides. In all likelihood these associations are cultural and learnt, which means that they can be very different in different cultures or for different people. Blue is often associated with productivity, but also stability, calmness and even sadness. Green is clearly the colour of nature, and is considered to evoke safety, luck and envy (though in other cultures envy is yellow instead). White can be associated with peacefulness, cleanliness, innocence and emptiness, and, for example, mourning in India. Red is regarded as the colour of friendship, willpower, leadership, desire and revenge, which is a very wide range of feelings. But it is clear that in nature, it means danger or importance, so it should be put next to a neutral colour to allow the brain to rest. These emotions are so different that these guidelines seem to boil down to just one piece of advice: pause and see what the colour means for you.

How much free space should one leave in front of a PC desk?

Furniture Ferret: Placing a PC desk needs a larger area than just the item itself, as you also need approx. 50-76 cm extra behind the chair. Keeping this area free means that you will be able to easily push the chair back to stand up, or turn around to access a cabinet or bookshelf behind you. So altogether you will need an area 100 cm deep free in front of a PC desk. In other words, 110 cm deep computer and PC desks would require a 210 cm deep floor space in total. The room behind the chair doesn't need to be dead space, as it can double as the space you need to access drawers, shelves or a filing cabinet.

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What is a reasonable price for a PC desk?

335.54 British pounds is the average price of computer and PC desks in this category. Most of the computer and PC desks that match your search cost from 129.99 British pounds to 1,099.95 British pounds. This means that nine tenths of the products are between the two figures. You can check what the expected price of a product that match your search is by looking at the median value. The median price is 230 British pounds which means that exactly half of the computer and PC desks costs more and half costs less.

How can I order the 170cm wide computer and PC desks by price?

On the result pages one can choose to sort the results by price (ascending or descending), or relevance. Click or tap on the drop-down button just above the first PC desk, after "Order by", to change how the results are ordered. Ordering by relevance shows the PC desk first that contains most of the keywords in the search, while ordering by price shows the least expensive or most expensive PC desk first. You can set the order to "Price: low to high" to see the cheapest 170cm wide computer and PC desks on Furniture Ferret.

From the history of furniture: Desks and secretaries Part 5

A desk somewhat resembling this is in the City Hall, New York, and there are quite a number in Boston and its vicinity.

To return to the bookcase-desk in Figure 281. It is about eight feet high, and the Gothic treatment of the doors makes them very ornamental. One of the marked peculiarities of this style of furniture was the use of metal mounts, made usually of handsome hand-worked or cast brass, and in finer pieces, of water gilt. Our cabinet-makers never let themselves be carried away by this florid style, and contented themselves in most cases with merely making the capitals at the tops of the pillars, ornaments, and sometimes the tips of the feet of brass. You will see them in this example. The lid of the desk folds back upon itself, and above it another lid SAAings out, revealing pigeon-holes.

The quiet simplicity of this desk is in marked con trast to the superb pieces shown in Figure 283. Every one of the splendid gilt ornaments on tliese desks is worth careful study.

There was only one man in England, and none here, aaIio could have designed such desks as these, and that was Thomas Hope, whose studies in Greek and Roman antiquities enabled him almost to vie with the ancients in the beauty and grace of his figures. His book, called "Costumes of the Ancients," brought him great fame; it was published about 1807, and remains to this day a source of inspiration to those whose taste leads them to antique models. When he designed furniture it was always after classical forms, and decorated with his incomparable figures and ornaments. While many of his designs were not comfortable to sit or recline upon, they were certainly very beautiful to the eye. There are few such desks as these in this country, or in fact to be found anywhere, and I give these merely as examples of what splendid furniture did find its way Over here.

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