It's a veritable behemoth of a piece of furniture.  And fully as weighty as the bulk-space it occupies.  We ordered it many years ago from Office Depot and it came disassembled. It had piqued our interest, as an elegant design for a computer station. Just as well that my husband is skilled at all manner of things, including solving the puzzle of impossible-to-follow assembly instructions.  This one took days to put together.  And it was meant for an upstairs bedroom, spare bedrooms, since there are only two of us in this house.  That is where I became accustomed to using my computer from.

Last week we broke down  and my husband brought home from one of his shopping expeditions, two flat-screen television sets. (We've been without a television for well over a year and a half and haven't missed not having one, but there's also a convenience to being able to put on television news, even though we can do something similar on our computers.) Both on sale, at inconsiderable prices, the small one meant for the library, the other quite a bit larger, and it will go in the family room. 

And now, because yesterday my husband took apart the armoire that had housed my computer for so many years, so we could carry it downstairs to the family room for re-assembly there, the television set is installed within it.  The new television set has gone into its heighty top half and the computer and screen and everything else I need occupy the bottom half.

It fits in every nicely, styled after an 18th-Century French armoire; doors closed everything is hidden.  It stands next to our large, bright windows and since I've already been using my new desk top, placed on a smaller computer desk for months now, I'm accustomed to working downstairs; the smaller desk is now destined to be moved upstairs, to take the place of the armoire upstairs.

And we're more than a little pleased with how everything has worked out, except for the displacement of a few paintings that hung on the wall where the upper half of the armoire now backs onto that wall.