attached to a side edge of the drafting board alternatively the drafting table could be provided with more than one storage surface or shelf such as is shown for example in fig3 storage surface or shelf 16 may be used for storage of writing instruments ink erasers and the like and or other accessories such as trays lamps telephones and the like which may be placed upon and or attached to storage surface or shelf 16 as indicated hereinabove the storage surface or shelf may be maintained in a substantially horizontal position during tilting movement of the drafting board between substantially horizontal and vertical positions by a suitable means such as parallelogram linkage 18 parallelogram linkage 18 consists of l shaped bracket 20 and straight bracket 22 storage surface or shelf 16 is attached to the substantially horizontal leg of l shaped bracket 20 which is hingedly attached to the drafting board at the apex 24 of l shaped bracket 20 straight bracket 22 is pivotally attached at point 26 to the substantially vertical leg of l shaped bracket 20 and is pivotally attached at point 28 to base 12 the distance from the point of attachment 28 to the point 30 where the drafting is pivotally mounted on the base is the same as the distance between apex 24 and attachment point 26 along the vertical leg of l shaped bracket 20 thus by means of such brackets.