Chris Long is a Home Depot store associate in the Chicago area, where since 2000 he has been helping customers on DIY topics related to homes and home offices. Chris also is a frequent writer for Home Depot's Home Decorators.com website.
Twenty or thirty years ago, the idea that practically every person would want a desk at home was absurd. Way back when, the average person did not own a computer. Most people would leave the house, go sit at a…