Im probably one of the most broke and froogle owners of a nice setup :D I do everything on the cheap.
That desk is a single piece of 3/4" MDF cut for me at Lowes for like $25, and two file cabinets for drawers/support that were used on sale for $20 each at office depot.
I then got some contact paper off ebay for like $10 and a few L brackets to bolt it all to the wall for extra support.
Oh I did also buy a cheap laminate trimmer (small router) and barowed a roundover bit to round off the edge before I put the contact paper on.
Net cost of my giant 9' long desk less than $100.00
When you use the word "like" next to a specific figure, are you saying it was approximately that figure, or was is like that figure in the sense that $456,789 is like $25 dollars - ie that it is dollars and thus has a similarity...that being the same currency? But I guess that pounds is also like dollars in the sense that it is A currency...and Yen and Yaun and so on and so on. I guess you can see my confusion.
So just need to clarify that.