After the baby comes, our spare bedroom will become the baby room, which means this desktop computer will have to go somewhere else in our apartment. There's no room for this giant desk anywhere else in our apartment so I'll be getting rid of it and finding another place to have a computer sans giant desk. I'm trying not to put the computer in the master bedroom, but I don't want it just sprawled out in our living area as well. Ideally, I'm looking for something like an armoire with a drop lid desk that can hide a computer when it's not in use.

Our first idea was to look at IKEA since they have fairly good furniture at very cheap prices. However, nothing they currently stock seems like it will work perfectly for us. They've got things like: 

or

But neither seems to fit a 24" LCD monitor very well. My friend Geoff's suggestion was simple: "Buy a Macbook Pro, then you can use it anywhere" While I would love that I'd first like to try to solve this problem for less than $1500.

So today, I found this idea on Ikeahacker.com: a mounted cabinet with a two-panel fold out desk.

Quite a custom job, but very minimalistic. My desktop is bigger than a Mac Mini, but I really like this idea. When closed up it has a very clean look to it, as if you just have a monitor mounted over on a wall ledge. I'd have to figure out where to put the computer itself, perhaps on the floor or on the ledge as well? It's not the perfect solution, but at this point I think it's the best one... other than the Macbook Pro idea:)