We’re once more with spherical 3 of our Alvarez Sequence! They’re our good buddies who moreover happen to be our producers. They simply currently moved to this house and purchased an outdated ranch dwelling, and have spent the ultimate plenty of months turning it proper right into a glam farmhouse. They’ve completed an unbelievable job, and now we get to go in and assemble them loads of furnishings! YEAH 😉 Lauren needed a small writing desk for her butler’s pantry, so we obtained right here up with this $30 DIY farmhouse desk you presumably can assemble with merely 6 boards. Attempt the DIY 6 Board Farmhouse Desk Video HERE or beneath!
How cute is that this desk??
DIY 6 Board Farmhouse Desk
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Start by attaching the runner to 2 of your foot gadgets. These are 2×4 boards that we ripped down to 3” broad. You don’t must tear your boards down, nonetheless it’ll change the final look of the desk. Join the runner to every boards using wood glue and a few.5” pocket hole screws by the use of the 1.5” pocket holes. We used our Kreg K5 Jig for this half!
Subsequent, join the “I” you merely made to the desk prime. using wood glue and a few” Spax or wood screws. The desk prime is a laminated pine board. I purchased a 16”broad board and decrease the dimensions to measurement using my miter observed.
Now join every leg gadgets. These hook up with the “I” boards using wood glue and a few.5” pocket hole screws by the use of the 1.5” pocket holes. These will line up flush with the outsides of the “I” piece and centered on them as correctly.
Join the alternative two foot gadgets subsequent. These will hook up with the legs using wood glue and a few.5” pocket hole screws by the use of the 1.5” pocket holes. Be sure your pocket holes are coping with the an identical course on each leg because of this may be the once more of the desk that you simply simply acquired’t see, so there is perhaps no must fill these pocket holes.
Now join the decorative 1×4 boards to each foot board. These could have a 30˚ angle on each end. Join the boards to the foot gadgets using wood glue and 1.5” Spax or wood screws.
Remaining step is attaching the decorative diagonal gadgets. These are 1×3 boards. To get the exact measurement, keep the board in place and mark the exact decrease. Then, set your miter observed to that decrease. Join the boards to the leg and foot boards using wood glue and 1.25” nails.
DIY 6 Board Farmhouse Desk – Paint, Stain, Vogue!
All accomplished! Chances are you’ll paint or stain yours to fit your mannequin. Certainly one of many good points about this desk is how easy it is to customize in dimension. Within the occasion you need it longer or shorter, merely modify the size of your runner and desk prime and in addition you’re completed! Bear in mind to share photographs of your accomplished desk and use #shanty2chic so we are going to share!
And let’s take a look at it but another time!
