Desk Essentials

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Your desk is where you spend most of your day, so it may as well look like somewhere you want to be. Desk essentials covers the stuff that makes a setup actually work: desk mats, monitor stands, pen and cable organisers, phone stands and desk lamps.

The rule we go by is that it has to do a job and still look good. Plenty of desk gear does one or the other. Not much does both.

The two that change a desk the fastest are a monitor light bar, which lights the desk without glaring off the screen, and the glass desk whiteboard that sits between your keyboard and monitor instead of a pile of sticky notes.

Building a setup from scratch? Pair these with LED Lights & Lamps for under-desk lighting, browse Desk & Table Lamps for something to work by that isn't the ceiling light, or read how to build a desk setup that actually works.

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Common Questions

Will any of this damage my desk?

No, and that was the filter for most of what is in here. The cable trays clamp on or slide under, the cable cover needs no tools and lifts off again, and the clamp on tray comes away leaving the desk exactly as it was. Nothing here needs a screw into a rented desk.

There are five cable things. Which one do I need?

Different problems. The adhesive clips stop loose ends sliding off the edge, which is the bedside table problem more than the desk one. A tray takes the plug strip and the slack underneath and gets it off the floor. The cable cover takes four or five wires going the same way and turns them into one line along a skirting or a wall. Most setups want the tray plus one of the other two.

Will the clips hold every cable?

They take anything up to 5mm across, which covers charging, USB, audio and network leads, so nearly everything on a normal desk. Thick power cables are the exception and are better off in a tray or under the cover anyway, since those are built for the heavy stuff. Stick the clips to furniture rather than a freshly painted wall and they come away clean.

Does it come with everything I need to use it?

Mostly. The magnetic board includes magnets if you pick one of the set options, and the glass desk whiteboard does not include pens, so use any dry wipe marker you already have. Everything else arrives ready to use.

What finishes a desk off?

A felt desk mat does more for how a desk looks than anything else at the price, and it quietens the keyboard. After that, a lamp from Lamps and a strip behind the monitor from LED Strip & Fairy Lights. Small thing, but the desk looks better by Friday.

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