A Glass Top Desk for Our Home Office

Last week we made some major progress on the remodel of our home office. First of all, I finally chose a paint color! After narrowing it down to ten possible colors (the eight dark gray paint colors that I had been considering for a few weeks plus two more colors I found more recently through readers' comments: Behr's Fashion Gray and Restoration Hardware's Charcoal), the winner was Martha Stewart's Zinc. I wasn't sure how I was going to decide because all ten are gorgeous colors but when I placed the paint chips next to the paint color in my foyer and my drapery fabric for the room, Zinc jumped out as the clear winner, coordinating beautifully with both. We also had the hardwood floors in our office refinished last week and we pulled down our old wimpy chair rail and crown molding that we hope to have replaced within the next week (well, the crown molding at least, we're not going to put up new chair rail). Now I need to figure out how we're going to furnish our space.  If you've been reading for a while, you may remember that we started our bookcase hunt back in August, at which time we were debating between traditional white and industrial bookcases. We ended up compromising and going for a bookcase that is somewhere in between these two styles (FYI, this picture is from the store where we purchased it - we haven't put it up in our own house yet):

The bookcase we chose has a little bit of an industrial feel to it with the metal bar and ladder but also has a fairly traditional style. It's hard to see in the blurry iPhone picture but the finish is a very pretty distressed white wash.  We ended up choosing this bookcase in part because we decided it was important to buy a freestanding unit rather than creating a built-in bookcase.  We're not sure that our current house is our "forever home" and if we were going to invest some $$ into a bookcase, we decided we wanted it to be something that we could move with us rather than stay with the house if we moved. Our next step in furnishing the office is to find a desk to go along with it. I'm still searching around but I'm leaning towards a glass top desk. This type of desk doesn't take up as much visual space, making the room feel larger, and it would add a little modern edge to our office, keeping it from looking overly traditional. A glass top desk shows up in many of my inspiration pics of beautiful home offices:

{Nate Berkus}

{Nate Berkus}

{Nate Berkus}

Williams-Sonoma Home

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West Elm

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{House Beautiful}

{BHG}

I've shopped around for glass top desks and one of the first options that I found is high on my list of possibilities because it would be so inexpensive. Two bloggers (Alexandra of Luisa Design and Sarah of Matters of Style) have each combined a glass top with IKEA's Vika Lerberg metal trestle legs (only $10 each) which they spray painted gold to create these beauties:

{Luisa Design}

{Matters of Style via Apartment Therapy}

Other options include Crate & Barrel's Strut 70" Work Table,

CB2's Silverado Rectangular Dining Table,

West Elm's Mix + Match Table Collection - Solid Wood Base with Clear Glass Top,

and Pottery Barn's Sawhorse Desk:

Do you have a favorite or do you know of any other great glass top desks out there?