Building My Dream IKEA Desk for my Gaming Setup 2021

The Author's Experience with Table Legs

I recently had the opportunity to purchase a set of table legs that I was very excited about, but also experienced some issues along the way. The first set of table legs I purchased were square-shaped and came in at a cost of 65 pounds for two legs. I was surprised when I received only one leg initially, as I had expected both to arrive together. After fighting with Amazon's customer service, I eventually got my second leg, but I wasn't happy about having to spend another 65 pounds on the second set.

Despite the initial issues, I was ultimately very happy with my purchase and the quality of the table legs. They are sturdy and have a nice design that fits well with my overall setup. The square-shaped legs were available in different sizes, including a more expensive option that is thicker than the standard size. However, these thicker legs are also available from a different company, which offers even more heavy-duty options.

The x-shaped legs caught my eye, and I found them to be very attractive. They are called "balling" legs, and they have a unique design that sets them apart from other table leg options. The delivery time for these legs was listed as one or two weeks, but in reality, it took only a few days for both legs to arrive.

I ended up purchasing a second set of legs, which were slightly wider than the original set I purchased. This additional width allowed me to accommodate a footrest on top of the table leg, which added more stability and strength to the overall setup. The total cost of this setup was 140 pounds, with an additional 27 pounds for the footrest.

In comparison, other table leg options were much more affordable. For example, the Ikea corner piece that came with a set of legs costs 52 pounds, while the individual legs themselves cost 16 pounds each. However, there is also an even cheaper option available for purchase, which includes a tabletop and legs for 6 pounds.

Conclusion

Overall, I was very happy with my experience purchasing table legs from this company. While the initial issues were frustrating, they were eventually resolved without too much hassle. The quality of the legs themselves is excellent, and the design is very attractive. If you're in the market for new table legs, I would definitely recommend checking out these options. However, be aware that some products may not be available online, and delivery times can vary.

Amazon Alternatives

If you don't want to purchase from this company, there are other options available on Amazon. The Ikea corner piece is currently unavailable online, but it was originally priced at 40 pounds for the tabletop alone. There are also many different sizes of square-shaped table legs available, ranging in price from 16 to 52 pounds.

Tips and Tricks

One tip I would offer to readers is that it's not possible to purchase individual table legs separately. All orders come with a set of two legs, so be sure to plan accordingly before making your purchase. Additionally, the company that sold me these legs has a delivery service called Hartley's, which can deliver products in as little as two or three days.

Footrest Considerations

When deciding on a footrest for your table leg setup, consider the size and material of the rest. The footrest I purchased was a standard size, but it would have been difficult to fit inside the smaller leg if not for its additional width. This highlights the importance of choosing a footrest that complements your overall design.

The x-shaped legs are also worth considering, as they add a unique touch to any setup. However, be aware that these legs may be more expensive than other options, and delivery times can vary depending on the company's service.

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this table leg might be beat up like i guess right here there's like a tiny dent but yeah for the most part this one's okay they do also come with these rubber pads that you can put i'm guessing like right underneath the table legs so at the bottom there you attach these in case like things aren't exactly level now if anyone was ever wondering whether or not my ikea lin-man table this cardboard table right here is bending inwards the answer is possibly yes but do bear in mind that we have one ikea adult's leg there and then another one all the way there by the subwoofer the one in the corner there i'm not entirely sure if i want to be replacing that one like i probably could but i kind of like the way that one is just there in the corner i don't think i'm gonna be replacing it i might have to add some stuff at the bottom there to kind of make it higher but apart from that i think i might leave that table leg alone and solely rely on this single one to be in the middle all right now we're going to have to do some aligning as well because at the moment this thing this ain't going to cut it to make my life a lot easier i'm going to move this ooh yeah sounded healthy i'm going to move the table out towards this side basically i need to be real careful because if any of these table legs give out it's over for the setup everything's falling all right we can unplug the whole setup just like that only two cables dude for the whole thing it's really easy right i've gone ahead and put that table leg behind the table now however i've ran into one big problem and that is the cables so the way i've got everything set up at the moment is the two cables that run from this monitor go through this like cable management channel here and then down the middle monitor and then the same goes for this monitor over here as well two cables run alongside and then down the bottom there now there's not only just monitor cables there's also this clock led lighting behind the monitor as well as a sound bar behind the monitor so overall uh there are a lot of cables running down there here's a shot underneath the table right here right next to where this table leg is yeah we have the monitor kind of like hanging over the edge right here because this table doesn't have a lot of depth which is a major problem and one of the main reasons i do want to change tables as soon as possible but before we change tables i do want to make this one final project with the ikea linmon but yeah we have a lot of cables coming out here so i'm gonna have to just uncable manage everything unplug everything and then hopefully we'll be good to go and just install the lag underneath okay we've got monitor power a mouse dock what else is coming out of this one monitor usb type-c another cable for the clock underneath the monitor then the red cable this is display port there we go that's i think that's everything that was actually way easier than i thought now whilst i install this table leg i do need to support the two tables that are joined up here somehow because you know after i removed this which i have to remove this first before installing that leg i want to just position this table leg this looks horrendous at the moment but it's all fine bro there's like gravel inside of here what this is the second table like that i i'm not gonna end up using at least for now maybe for a future project you know maybe we'll put it to use but bro there's actually gravel dude there's like gravel inside i just vacuumed this whole room as well anyway the reason i unboxed the second one is just to see for any damage because you know the first one was fine it had one tiny tiny dent but everything else was fine with it is this one messed up some people did leave this product like a one star dude i'm upset that this is filled with gravel it's not damaged this is just filled with gravel mate um nah this is fine nowhere do i see like corrosion or anything like that no problems with these table legs so far now at the very start of this video you saw me take one of these steel table legs because these are completely flat and straight and i put it by the desk to see whether or not you could see like any visible bending in the table and there was very clearly visible bending in the middle of this table mostly i would say because we were using that ikea addo's leg like i pointed out now that we have replaced that terrible ikea edo's leg with this steel one that just covers much more surface area in the desk we've screwed every possible screw into it so you know maximize stability strength all that whatever now when i put this steel table leg by the by the desk this is nowhere near as bad i didn't think that this would make such a big difference in terms of the bending in the middle because typically that does happen with ikea limb on tables especially the two meter table probably the more you use that table over time it probably will have some kind of tendency to bend in the middle ever so slightly now at the moment this one is also bending in the middle but nowhere near as bad like i mean nowhere near as bad this is only bending in the middle maybe by like one millimeter which is nothing really i'm surprised it's made this big of a difference to be honest that wasn't even my like intention because the bending in the middle really didn't bother me until i noticed how bad it was when i put that table leg there and i'm like oh this is bad but yeah that was probably because we were using that ikea addo's leg but now that we've replaced it with this big one problem solved like actually problem solved now that we've completed this setup upgrade let's talk about the pricing of all of it was it worth it how much did all of this even cost especially the table legs because if you buy a single set of those table legs it's not as bad if you have to buy two sets like what i had to do because this table is really wide and it's two tables combined into one so if i don't have something in the middle there supporting it i won't have a setup anymore all right it's gone break 100 i guarantee you so i've opened up ikea i've opened up amazon for not only the table legs that i bought but as you may have noticed i've also picked up a new footrest so i guess we we may as well begin with that one so this footrest was 27 pound but if you have the keeper app you can keep an eye on the price and you can actually pick it up for a whopping 14 quid every now and again this is the new foot rest it is in my opinion better than the one i had before which is this one right here you can see you purchased this item right here and you can see i purchased this one too but this one i bought back in march of 2020 so nearly a year ago but this footrest it was all right man actually they have different designs ooh this one was quite nice to be honest they have like an all black version of it that's pretty sick 60 quid i'm glad i bought the other one to be honest but the main reason i got rid of this kensington one is because it had like gray accents and nowhere in my setup do i already have gray accents so i thought i'd rather just have like an all black footrest if you get what i mean and to be honest this one fits in pretty damn nicely with this table leg in the middle in fact my new foot rest this one here is sitting on top of the table leg and i've also added like some rubber pads underneath it to prevent any slippage so it doesn't move around and i can just like put my feet on it overall having a foot rest in your setup if you've never had one might be something to think about in like investing into because personally it's just nice at least for me to put my feet somewhere instead of just like on the floor plus this has like a bit of an incline so your posture could be a little bit better as well moving on to the table legs that i ended up buying that ended up replacing the table legs that i used to use which are the ikea adios legs which cost a whopping 2 pound 50 per leg i think most people if you want to like spice up your desk a little bit make it a little bit more stable a little bit more unique picking off something like this i reckon it's a decent investment they are actual steel and by the like from my experience pretty smooth coated in terms of like the paint job everything's pretty good some people did report incredibly poor finish and not quality item at all these legs are disappointing the clear coat is no coding at all reveals all the grinding marks ooh maybe that's why someone had a bad experience because they bought their clear coat buy at your own risk says baxter yeah this is kind of bad see mine had like a tiny dent just like this but i didn't have any of these problems in total i ended up paying 65 pound for the first set of table legs that i bought bear in mind that you do get two not just one at first i legit fought only one will arrive and i want to have to spend like another 65 pound on the other table leg rest assured i was very happy when two showed up and not one i've left quite a few links in the video description down below to different amazon like listings for these table legs because there aren't only square ones in fact this one right here as you can see is a little bit more expensive but these table legs that are slightly more expensive they are even thicker so they're the same design basically but they're even thicker mate so if you want even more heavy duty table legs you could go for these also this is by a different company entirely i just noticed but this company here they have a bunch more table leg designs so there are the x shaped ones there are also the trapezoid very nice name so yeah there's these if you want to go for like a picnic table or something i don't know picnic table vibes let's go the x-shaped ones not gonna lie these definitely caught my eye and maybe maybe one day we'll we'll switch over to the x-shaped ones because they actually look sick don't they like let's be honest these x-shaped ones are balling me but delivery times see even on this one it said the delivery time is like way ahead like you know one or two week delivery time but when i ordered it both times it showed up in like two or three days i do have prime on amazon so maybe that's why but this isn't through amazon prime this is through their own delivery service out of hartley's because i bought mine from hartley's i bought this one and then i ended up buying the 71 by 70 centimeter one that i put in the middle of the desk because i needed one that's slightly wider to also accommodate the footrest that i wanted to put on top of the table leg because the smaller one i measured it it would not fit the foot rest inside as i try to fit the other one inside of it and it didn't fit so i ended up buying the bigger one but then again the big one also adds like more stability more strength to the overall table so 65 plus 75 that's 140 plus i paid 27 pound for this so it's 167 in total i paid for the two table legs well four table legs and a foot rest it is a lot of money i know but most people i think if you don't have like a super wide desk or you've not combined two desks into one you could absolutely get away with just buying one set of whatever design you want you know i mean overall i don't regret buying it i wish you could buy a single table leg at a time because i really didn't need the other one but you can only buy two at once i even checked on their own website to see if i can buy one table leg at a time no you can't at least not that i could find but yeah that's the table legs in terms of ikea lin-man this is how much the corner one costs and i swear maybe they've stopped selling the corner tables entirely because they're not even available anymore that's strange but you can get this one with the addo's legs already attached well not attached but they come with the with the table basically but you got to throw them in yourself you can even screw them in using just a screwdriver you don't need a drill to attach these legs so at least there's like that you know no tools required really apart from like a screwdriver but i think most people have those 52 pound 50 for the corner piece if you want the legs and 16 pound for the other table if you want the legs as well but if you want to save some money and not buy the 2 pound 50 ikea adult's legs because let's say you've already decided hey i want these balling x-shaped legs for my setup instead moving on to this yeah six pound for the tabletop itself six quid now this one you can actually buy unlike the corner one which appears to be currently unavailable online i don't know why but the corner one is a whopping 40 pound in comparison to six quid for the other one i'm gonna get going thank you so much for watching hopefully you guys enjoyed this video maybe gave you some ideas for your own setup because these table legs are pretty sick man even the x-shaped ones maybe i'll pick those up one day for a future setup we'll see what happens all right i'm gonna get going thank you so much for watching i'll see you in and i'll be your soon goodbyeright this parcel just came in also by the looks of things someone actually punched it this wasn't me but this actually perfectly fits my fist i think what's inside should be okay uh now let's damage it a bit more why don't we let's go let's go hopefully everything has arrived in one piece they are hollow on the inside so i think whoever did punch this box it shouldn't have caused damage to the actual table legs some of the reviews that i read on amazon about these table legs right here said that they tend to come kind of messed up every now and again but i think a lot of the reviews were positive incredibly poor finish and not quality item at all these legs are disappointing the clear coat is no coding at all varying angles and dimensions not square buy at your own risk i ordered both table eggs and excellent quality excellent quality good value for money sturdy value for money good but not perfect but there were a couple saying that like some edges of this table leg might be beat up like i guess right here there's like a tiny dent but yeah for the most part this one's okay they do also come with these rubber pads that you can put i'm guessing like right underneath the table legs so at the bottom there you attach these in case like things aren't exactly level now if anyone was ever wondering whether or not my ikea lin-man table this cardboard table right here is bending inwards the answer is possibly yes but do bear in mind that we have one ikea adult's leg there and then another one all the way there by the subwoofer the one in the corner there i'm not entirely sure if i want to be replacing that one like i probably could but i kind of like the way that one is just there in the corner i don't think i'm gonna be replacing it i might have to add some stuff at the bottom there to kind of make it higher but apart from that i think i might leave that table leg alone and solely rely on this single one to be in the middle all right now we're going to have to do some aligning as well because at the moment this thing this ain't going to cut it to make my life a lot easier i'm going to move this ooh yeah sounded healthy i'm going to move the table out towards this side basically i need to be real careful because if any of these table legs give out it's over for the setup everything's falling all right we can unplug the whole setup just like that only two cables dude for the whole thing it's really easy right i've gone ahead and put that table leg behind the table now however i've ran into one big problem and that is the cables so the way i've got everything set up at the moment is the two cables that run from this monitor go through this like cable management channel here and then down the middle monitor and then the same goes for this monitor over here as well two cables run alongside and then down the bottom there now there's not only just monitor cables there's also this clock led lighting behind the monitor as well as a sound bar behind the monitor so overall uh there are a lot of cables running down there here's a shot underneath the table right here right next to where this table leg is yeah we have the monitor kind of like hanging over the edge right here because this table doesn't have a lot of depth which is a major problem and one of the main reasons i do want to change tables as soon as possible but before we change tables i do want to make this one final project with the ikea linmon but yeah we have a lot of cables coming out here so i'm gonna have to just uncable manage everything unplug everything and then hopefully we'll be good to go and just install the lag underneath okay we've got monitor power a mouse dock what else is coming out of this one monitor usb type-c another cable for the clock underneath the monitor then the red cable this is display port there we go that's i think that's everything that was actually way easier than i thought now whilst i install this table leg i do need to support the two tables that are joined up here somehow because you know after i removed this which i have to remove this first before installing that leg i want to just position this table leg this looks horrendous at the moment but it's all fine bro there's like gravel inside of here what this is the second table like that i i'm not gonna end up using at least for now maybe for a future project you know maybe we'll put it to use but bro there's actually gravel dude there's like gravel inside i just vacuumed this whole room as well anyway the reason i unboxed the second one is just to see for any damage because you know the first one was fine it had one tiny tiny dent but everything else was fine with it is this one messed up some people did leave this product like a one star dude i'm upset that this is filled with gravel it's not damaged this is just filled with gravel mate um nah this is fine nowhere do i see like corrosion or anything like that no problems with these table legs so far now at the very start of this video you saw me take one of these steel table legs because these are completely flat and straight and i put it by the desk to see whether or not you could see like any visible bending in the table and there was very clearly visible bending in the middle of this table mostly i would say because we were using that ikea addo's leg like i pointed out now that we have replaced that terrible ikea edo's leg with this steel one that just covers much more surface area in the desk we've screwed every possible screw into it so you know maximize stability strength all that whatever now when i put this steel table leg by the by the desk this is nowhere near as bad i didn't think that this would make such a big difference in terms of the bending in the middle because typically that does happen with ikea limb on tables especially the two meter table probably the more you use that table over time it probably will have some kind of tendency to bend in the middle ever so slightly now at the moment this one is also bending in the middle but nowhere near as bad like i mean nowhere near as bad this is only bending in the middle maybe by like one millimeter which is nothing really i'm surprised it's made this big of a difference to be honest that wasn't even my like intention because the bending in the middle really didn't bother me until i noticed how bad it was when i put that table leg there and i'm like oh this is bad but yeah that was probably because we were using that ikea addo's leg but now that we've replaced it with this big one problem solved like actually problem solved now that we've completed this setup upgrade let's talk about the pricing of all of it was it worth it how much did all of this even cost especially the table legs because if you buy a single set of those table legs it's not as bad if you have to buy two sets like what i had to do because this table is really wide and it's two tables combined into one so if i don't have something in the middle there supporting it i won't have a setup anymore all right it's gone break 100 i guarantee you so i've opened up ikea i've opened up amazon for not only the table legs that i bought but as you may have noticed i've also picked up a new footrest so i guess we we may as well begin with that one so this footrest was 27 pound but if you have the keeper app you can keep an eye on the price and you can actually pick it up for a whopping 14 quid every now and again this is the new foot rest it is in my opinion better than the one i had before which is this one right here you can see you purchased this item right here and you can see i purchased this one too but this one i bought back in march of 2020 so nearly a year ago but this footrest it was all right man actually they have different designs ooh this one was quite nice to be honest they have like an all black version of it that's pretty sick 60 quid i'm glad i bought the other one to be honest but the main reason i got rid of this kensington one is because it had like gray accents and nowhere in my setup do i already have gray accents so i thought i'd rather just have like an all black footrest if you get what i mean and to be honest this one fits in pretty damn nicely with this table leg in the middle in fact my new foot rest this one here is sitting on top of the table leg and i've also added like some rubber pads underneath it to prevent any slippage so it doesn't move around and i can just like put my feet on it overall having a foot rest in your setup if you've never had one might be something to think about in like investing into because personally it's just nice at least for me to put my feet somewhere instead of just like on the floor plus this has like a bit of an incline so your posture could be a little bit better as well moving on to the table legs that i ended up buying that ended up replacing the table legs that i used to use which are the ikea adios legs which cost a whopping 2 pound 50 per leg i think most people if you want to like spice up your desk a little bit make it a little bit more stable a little bit more unique picking off something like this i reckon it's a decent investment they are actual steel and by the like from my experience pretty smooth coated in terms of like the paint job everything's pretty good some people did report incredibly poor finish and not quality item at all these legs are disappointing the clear coat is no coding at all reveals all the grinding marks ooh maybe that's why someone had a bad experience because they bought their clear coat buy at your own risk says baxter yeah this is kind of bad see mine had like a tiny dent just like this but i didn't have any of these problems in total i ended up paying 65 pound for the first set of table legs that i bought bear in mind that you do get two not just one at first i legit fought only one will arrive and i want to have to spend like another 65 pound on the other table leg rest assured i was very happy when two showed up and not one i've left quite a few links in the video description down below to different amazon like listings for these table legs because there aren't only square ones in fact this one right here as you can see is a little bit more expensive but these table legs that are slightly more expensive they are even thicker so they're the same design basically but they're even thicker mate so if you want even more heavy duty table legs you could go for these also this is by a different company entirely i just noticed but this company here they have a bunch more table leg designs so there are the x shaped ones there are also the trapezoid very nice name so yeah there's these if you want to go for like a picnic table or something i don't know picnic table vibes let's go the x-shaped ones not gonna lie these definitely caught my eye and maybe maybe one day we'll we'll switch over to the x-shaped ones because they actually look sick don't they like let's be honest these x-shaped ones are balling me but delivery times see even on this one it said the delivery time is like way ahead like you know one or two week delivery time but when i ordered it both times it showed up in like two or three days i do have prime on amazon so maybe that's why but this isn't through amazon prime this is through their own delivery service out of hartley's because i bought mine from hartley's i bought this one and then i ended up buying the 71 by 70 centimeter one that i put in the middle of the desk because i needed one that's slightly wider to also accommodate the footrest that i wanted to put on top of the table leg because the smaller one i measured it it would not fit the foot rest inside as i try to fit the other one inside of it and it didn't fit so i ended up buying the bigger one but then again the big one also adds like more stability more strength to the overall table so 65 plus 75 that's 140 plus i paid 27 pound for this so it's 167 in total i paid for the two table legs well four table legs and a foot rest it is a lot of money i know but most people i think if you don't have like a super wide desk or you've not combined two desks into one you could absolutely get away with just buying one set of whatever design you want you know i mean overall i don't regret buying it i wish you could buy a single table leg at a time because i really didn't need the other one but you can only buy two at once i even checked on their own website to see if i can buy one table leg at a time no you can't at least not that i could find but yeah that's the table legs in terms of ikea lin-man this is how much the corner one costs and i swear maybe they've stopped selling the corner tables entirely because they're not even available anymore that's strange but you can get this one with the addo's legs already attached well not attached but they come with the with the table basically but you got to throw them in yourself you can even screw them in using just a screwdriver you don't need a drill to attach these legs so at least there's like that you know no tools required really apart from like a screwdriver but i think most people have those 52 pound 50 for the corner piece if you want the legs and 16 pound for the other table if you want the legs as well but if you want to save some money and not buy the 2 pound 50 ikea adult's legs because let's say you've already decided hey i want these balling x-shaped legs for my setup instead moving on to this yeah six pound for the tabletop itself six quid now this one you can actually buy unlike the corner one which appears to be currently unavailable online i don't know why but the corner one is a whopping 40 pound in comparison to six quid for the other one i'm gonna get going thank you so much for watching hopefully you guys enjoyed this video maybe gave you some ideas for your own setup because these table legs are pretty sick man even the x-shaped ones maybe i'll pick those up one day for a future setup we'll see what happens all right i'm gonna get going thank you so much for watching i'll see you in and i'll be your soon goodbye\n"