Hey buddies! Make sure that to catch the following two episodes of our current, Open Thought on HGTV on Sunday, June twelfth at 11:00 and 11:30am CST! Okay – presently we will be talking about this superior DIY Cubby Storage Desk we constructed for our kids.
I like having teenage-ish women. I like designing and developing them objects and adorning them pink and putting gold canine on them… 🙂 It’s so pleasurable! This latest assemble is for my second to oldest little girl. I latterly constructed her a platform mattress I shared the plans for numerous weeks prior to now. I am inside the technique of revamping her room a bit, and the desk was the following merchandise on the document. I like the way in which it turned out! Strive her new DIY Cubby Storage Desk!
How cute is that? I consider it’s vogue will develop collectively together with her for years (or until I get bored and assemble her a model new one 😉 ) It’s a really simple assemble. Within the occasion you’ve under no circumstances tackled drawer slides sooner than, this is usually a good one to begin out with. I will share the whole assemble underneath, and you may even acquire and print the FREE PLANS by clicking HERE or the button underneath!
Step one in all this desk is developing the containers that may variety both facet. These are constructed from hardwood plywood. I used Purebond Plywood from Residence Depot to for mine. These can be found big 4′ x 8′ sheets and we have the fellows at Depot decrease it down for us so we’re in a position to get it residence.
A bit of additional component… On the plans, you’ll discover how we have confirmed the cuts. It looks like this…
So… I had him rip (that’s a decrease that go’s the dimensions of the board and parallel with the grain of the picket) two objects at 19.5″ each. That left me with two 19.5″ x 96″ objects and a scrap piece as properly. I took these residence and made all of my smaller cross cuts on my miter observed.
Upon getting your cuts made for the containers, it’s pocket hole time. We love our Kreg Jigs, which you may already know 🙂 It could be a bit overwhelming deciding which Kreg Jig to begin out with. Ash and I’ve used all fashions, and you will’t go flawed with any of them. We do counsel that if you are going to assemble a few piece of furnishings, go ahead and get the K5. It’s legit… Great shopper nice. I actually used my Kreg Foreman to make my pocket holes. This issue is the precise deal. Within the occasion you make quite a few pocket holes and assemble quite a few furnishings, it’s important to add this to your “can buy correct now” document.
It’s a Kreg Jig on steroids really… 🙂 It’ll crank out practically a pocket hole a second in the event you’re fast. You merely plug it in and pull down on the cope with.
The very best, bottom and shelf objects of your containers will look a bit like this after making your pocket holes.
I drew out my traces on my longer side objects using a tempo sq.. That’s the quickest answer to get a sq. and proper line.
I added a line of picket glue the place my shorter objects would line up.
Then, I attached these things to the longer boards using my Ryobi 18V drill and 1.25″ pocket hole screws.
Upon getting the sphere assembled, it ought to appear as if this.
The next step is in order so as to add show molding to the doorway of the side objects. It’s a skinny 3/4″ in depth molding that covers the raw fringe of the plywood and offers a reasonably,accomplished look. I can often solely uncover a show molding that has somewhat little bit of a rounded edge to it, and I really wasn’t feeling it for this desk design, so I decided to make my very personal! When you could have a desk observed, you’ll be able to do that in minutes and decrease your bills too.
I ran a 1x10x6 pine board through my desk observed numerous events. Each time I might shave off 1/4″ of the board. These things grew to turn out to be my show molding! Easy peasy!
You may must make use of your miter observed to cut the 45 diploma angles of the very best, bottom and side objects of show molding.
Subsequent, add a line of glue to the doorway of each discipline.
I used my Ryobi 18g brad nailer to attach my show molding with 3/4″ brad nails.
The piece that covers the shelf is perhaps a straight decrease.
Proper right here it is all prettied up!
Subsequent, I moved on to my drawers. Be sure that to measure as you go on this half. You want the width of your drawer to be 1″ decrease than the opening for it.
You can see proper right here… My opening is eighteen 1/4″ in depth, so I made the sphere of the drawer have an entire width of 17 1/4″.
I used 1×6 pine boards to create my drawers. Make sure that to find good, straight boards for this half so the drawers will work accurately. I made my cuts, after which added 3/4″ pocket holes to the highest of all of my fast objects.
I used a line of picket glue and 1.25″ pocket hole screws to attach the fast boards to the prolonged boards.
This formed my discipline!
I used my Ryobi 18g stapler to attach 1/4″ hardwood plywood to the underside of each drawer sooner than starting on the slides.
I measured 6.5″ from the underside of my excessive piece of plywood and used a tempo sq. to draw a line on the inside of the containers. That’s the place I lined up the drawer slides. I used my drill to attach these slides first.
The slides that go on the drawers line up like this. I put mine straight up the sting subsequent to the place my drawer entrance sits.
The once more of the underside of the drawer appeared like this.
I added my ft subsequent. These are merely 2×2 objects that I decrease from a pine 2×2 board. I used my K5 Kreg Jig to create the pocket holes on each one. I used 3/4″ pocket holes and attached the ft with 1″ screws and picket glue under each as properly. I forgot to take a picture of this step… Oops. It’ll appear as if this, solely I decided to point out my once more legs spherical so the pocket holes have been hidden on the once more of the desk.
Time to finish her off!
I used a fav stain combo on this baby.
I like to mix equal parts of Varathane Ash and Weathered Grey.
I mix mine in low price plastic containers from Residence Depot.
Then, merely brush it on, wait a few minutes, and wipe if off!
I decided to paint the drawer fronts with Rust-Oleum Heirloom White spray paint. I did our vaseline distressing tip under the paint to offer it a barely messy look.
And accomplished it off with some ridiculously cute pulls from Objective!
Sooner than taking the desk upstairs to assemble it, I added the 1/4″ hardwood plywood to the once more using staples as properly.
I attached all of the items in her room to make it simple to stand up the steps. I used 1″ picket screws through the very best of each side and into the very best panel. I didn’t use picket glue on this half in case I decide to maneuver it or take it down later.
Proper right here it is all accomplished up!
For the gold corners I found these at Residence Depot…
They’ve been a bit off on the tip, so I dabbed some Martha Stewart craft paint on them to match a bit greater.
Her wall colors are Embellished Blue by Sherwin-Williams.
The chair is from Enterprise West.
The lamp is from Objective. The baskets are Ikea cheapies that I used some Martha Stewart craft paint on in order so as to add some coloration.
That ought to just about cowl it!
Let me know if in case you could have any questions the least bit and thanks for stopping by! 🙂
