Quote Originally Posted by RottingYuna89 View Post
It's only the desk and the chair that I'm really picky about. The desk has to be a certain hue of light wood, because it'll be put next to my other desk that has my fish tank and TV on it, and if the two are mismatching colors it'll drive me up the wall. The fabric bins can be easily bought in target, and I'm pretty sure we have a black rug somewhere. The chair doesn't need to be a specific color as long as it's something that doesn't clash with orange or green (I'd prefer an orange chair, but a black chair works as well) but it has to be something that is at least partially comfy, because I'll be spending hours in it when I do bigger projects. It's just that desk... I found something for about 40 dollars that seems promising on the website, but I still need to measure the space to see if it'd fit. I have a very limited amount of space! I pine for an office room!
Go with black. Everything matches with black. Even black. I've found that even when you match desks and chairs, it can get fairly uncomfortable sitting at the chair while working at the desk. It only gets worse if you mix and match them based on price and color. If the person who you're shopping with is nice enough, it's okay to be freakishly obsessive. You are going to be using it for a lot.

And no, you should not be buying by yourself. Even I know not to buy furniture by myself.

But you're also talking to the guy that uses his coffee table as a workspace, dinner table, footrest, and general whirling mess of entropy. The universe suffers heat death every time I see my own table, and those are just the good days.