Having worked from a home office for the past several years has been a pleasure. The office behind the bar provides comfortable surroundings and an enjoyable place to work, yet storage for files and office equipment has been difficult.
One situation is that I’ve never really had decent storage space for files besides a single standard two-drawer metal file cabinet from Staples. I’d end up with stacks of files all over the floor. I needed a number of file cabinets for personal and business documents but never ventured out to get any and hated the ugly metal drawers.
Recently I sorted files aggressively and scanned in quite a bit and was able to cut down hard files to about half of what I originally had. The old files, now scanned, went to the burn pile.
To my surprise and delight, this past summer when cleaning out the barn, I discovered, under a huge pile of hay, a massive desk that the previous owners, furniture makers, had left behind. Lucky me. The writing on the back of the sturdy dove-tailed drawers identifies it as custom made for someone at a Peat Marwick office in NYC. 
I imagine it was for one of the execs by the look of it. The desk is made of very thick and solid mahogany and is tremendously heavy.
The desk is rather large at six feet long and three feet wide. The credenza is 8 feet long and boasts four double file drawers and a generous cabinet for storage. The desk has three more file drawers and a couple of smaller drawers. This give me a total of eleven large file drawers in all – I’m in heaven.
Hauling the desk into my home office was no easy task but once in and set up I was able to reorganize and actually got all my files put away. what a relief. Now Ive got room again and besides having a good sized piece of real estate as my desk I still have room to fit in a small reference library, office supply storage, my drafting table, drafting equipment, blue prints, printers, fax machines, safes, a few computers, routers, modems, scanners, and various other equipment and supplies.
The next step will be create a couple of shelves that would be appropriate. — Made of log (small logs) of course. But thats for another day.
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Under a pile of hay no less! What a find – congratulations.