Best Desks of 2024

I haven't had much luck finding desks that could be called executive. To be an executive desk requires a product to feel expensive and add some class to the room it is in. Most of the desks I've tested for this category have fallen behind that mark, with some of them missing parts, or looking cheap despite the price tag. Not the Ark ES from Eureka though. After the (admittedly very long) build, the desk looks amazing and is incredibly sturdy. It feels like a desk you keep for decades, rather than a few years.

The standing part of the desk works well, with sensors to stop the desk from going down too far, and it even has a nice pop-up USB hub for charging your phone and tablet. All around, the Ark ES is one of the nicest desks I've used, and if you are looking for something to give your home office some gravitas, this is the desk for you.

This light writing desk is a lot like many of the others I tested. Writing desks tend to be easy to put together -- this one took 10 minutes -- and are small in stature. It can hold maybe one monitor and a laptop comfortably, but not much else. 

The beauty of that, though, is it can be placed in almost any room and still look nice. There are a lot of finishes to choose from, too, and each one comes with a lamp to illuminate your work. The best feature, though, is the set of outputs. The Fenlo desk has a standard power outlet, two USB-A ports and, impressively, built-in wireless charging. It is much easier to manage cables for your laptop, tablet and phone when you can access them from the front.
The Fenlo is very light, so it does suffer slightly from the wibble-wobbles, even when its legs are tight. This only happened when I loaded it to its max weight, though, so if you are using just a laptop, you should be fine. 

I am a huge fan of making and crafting. We have a Cricut Explore 3 set up at home and use it weekly. We also like to have enough space to move around, so using the Branch Daily Desk on casters is amazing. During the day it's pushed to the side of the office, with the Cricut at the back and when we need it, we wheel it to the center of the room so we can use it from all angles.

The Daily Desk is an incredibly versatile desk that took minutes to build. We have the optional caster legs, which I recommend if you want to use it as a crafting table as we did, or you can use it as a simple desk for your child's room. As I say, it's versatile, so can be used for just about any job.

Gaming desks can often be extremely expensive, especially when you add extras. This desk from Monoprice is simple, cheap, and stable -- all good things -- and also has some neat extras like a headphone hook, cable management tray, and an off-desktop cup holder. Having your beverage off to the side of the desk is a great idea. If you knock it over, the contents are going on the floor, not on the expensive electronics on your desk. 

The work surface is grippy, with grommets in the rear to push cables through. I wish these were a little bigger, but they do the job as long as you don't have too many cables. There is also a notch in the front that lets you get closer to the work surface while maintaining a good posture.
At the price, the Monoprice is a decent entry-level gaming desk, though I did note -- and I've seen this in many of the desks I tested -- that not all of the holes that should have been predrilled were. When the manual tells you to screw something in a specific place, there should be predrilled holes to make that happen or you could end up splitting the wood.