Embarrassing confession: I spent so much time with my laptop on my lap one summer, I have permanent, if faded, dark marks on my thighs. Now I’m always telling myself that one day, I’m going to invest in a laptop tray of some sort.
In looking around I realized hey, there are some cute bed trays that do great double duty as a laptop tray. You know, when the kids aren’t serving me breakfast in bed at 11 AM. Ha.
I kind of love this mahogany wood veneer bed tray from CB2 complete with a heat-proof finish that means it can handle the underside of my MacBook. Besides, it comes at the rather miraculous price of $29.95, while plenty of laptop trays I’ve seen cost three times that. Seems like a smart option for those of us who catch up on work (or ahem, blogs) at night before lights out.
Of course I could always just keep my pants on when I type in bed. But what fun would that be? –Liz
THANK YOU so much this will be extremely helpful around here!!!!!
I had the same problem, except all the lapdesks or laptop trays I had were too high to type comfortably. So for Christmas 2 years ago, my kids measured a TV tray top (since it’s the perfect size), and cut me a laptop tray. Just a board that sits flat on my lap, made out of plywood, then wrote WE LOVE YOU!!! in the middle of it, they all signed their names to it, and they clear coated it so I wouldn’t get any splinters from it. It’s the best present I’ve ever gotten, honestly, and I use it every day. In fact, I’m using it now!!
You had a really simple bed tray that looked like a curved piece of wood where did you get it? I guess from January ’08