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May 31, 2006

Making your own furniture in Beijing

With the new IKEA Store in Beijing, you might wonder why people keep making their own furnitures. Well, in just two words: cheap! funny!

Last time, I drawed a television shelf, two tables for my living room and a master bed with a beautiful Dragon’s Head. All in the same color pattern: brown and red… A dark brown and an even darker red.
You should check my Reddish Dragon’s Head!!!

This time, I’m ready to design… my Computer Desk!
After squatting the table in the living room for more than half a year, I finally decided to arrange my home office decently. I decided to keep the same color theme as the other furnitures and here is where I am so far for the design. As you may notice, it’s in fact two pieces of furniture. The left one is for my computer and the right one is just a table…

Computer Desk Design

And here is another design, less red and the shape of the keyboard-mouse part slightly different!

Another design for my Computer Desk

I’d like to hear from you… Any comments? Any suggestions?


4 Responses to “Making your own furniture in Beijing”

  1. Thierry Says:

    I added another design for my Computer Desk. Which one do you prefer? Any interesting suggestion to improve that Design? ^_^

  2. Mimi Says:

    Not so bad for something desgned by a man… Except I really don’t get the A-B-C meaning?? Are A vs C two different kinds of red? Doesn’t show on my PC! I vote for: the colour of the first scheme, with the second desk design ! You may also incoporate red leather (same colour) where you want to put the keyboard? That’d be very chinese-modern design fashion.

  3. Thierry Says:

    Thanks for your comment!
    A-B-C are not directly related to the color. ABC are three layers of wood, A being the lowest one. I will check how to make it more understandable from the design pictures. ^_^

  4. Thierry Says:

    I changed the second design to better explain the layer A-B-C.

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