Office Desks

Office desks today come in many shapes, sizes, colors, and product compositions.

Today we are going to focus on wood desks.

I often get asked do you sell real wood office desks? I think that what people are asking me if we have solid wood office desks. Meaning was it all built from a block of wood such as pure maple or cherry wood all the way through. A real solid wood desk is very expensive.

That is why you will most likely be looking at a wood veneer desk.

Wood veneer is a thin layer of wood that you see on the outside of an office desk. Underneath that wood veneer could be particle board, fiberboard or some sort of layered wood such as plywood.

The wood veneer on an office desk comes from real wood, but it is a thin layer of wood, that will show the natural variations of the tree.

The wood veneer finishes are an important component on the office desk. Since it is real wood on the top you want to make sure that you have a hard stain coat to assure that you have proper protection of the veneer. Then you want to make sure it is topped off with a varnish application, and then that it is cured to assure you have the best protection possible. Ideally you want this done for all exposed surfaces.

While a hard cured finish is essential, having a desk pad and coaster is still a must to assure that your wood office desk keeps it original look as long as possible.