Eventually I decided to make a desk from metal file cabinets.
They not only give great support, but they are full of usable storage.
I was on the hunt. After my first thrift store, I came up with the file cabinet on the left for $15.
This wasn’t going to be as hard as I expected. Four more thrift stores later, I finally stumbled across the one on the right. Using my crude measuring stick, the length of my arm, I figured out that they were pretty darn close to the same size. Unfortunately, the second one was $10 more,$25…SOLD. I was not in the mood to go to 5 more thrift stores.