DIY Floating Desk with Storage

Hey guys! I’m once more to share one in all many latest gadgets that I’ve constructed for my sons room! Do that DIY Floating Desk with Storage we constructed for him.

He has this really cool space in his room that was not part of the plans. It was a closed off house over our entrance porch and it might have been absolutely wasted and useful space! So, we created a few steps up and left the wall open there. It’s the fitting spot for considerably study house! I wanted to maximise the world so I decided to assemble him a floating desk with a flip excessive for storage.

It’s great easy to assemble, it’s 5 ft. prolonged and I was able to assemble it for beneath $30! Proper right here’s how!

Gives:

2 – 2×4@8ft.

1 – 1×12@6ft.

1 – 1×4@6ft.

1 – 1×6@8ft.

1 – 13 1/2″ x 57″ 3/4″ sheet of scrap plywood

1 lock set

3 hinges

I started with a scrap piece of three/4″ plywood. That’s the place I was really prepared to avoid wasting money. Confirm your scrap pile. I had ample scrap to cut a 57″x13.5″ piece. This could be the bottom of the desk.

I drilled 3/4″ pocket holes into the either side and the doorway fringe of the plywood piece.

Subsequent, I 2×4 gadgets for the corbels. These measurements are prolonged degree to prolonged degree. Uncover that the two bottom gadgets have a 45 diploma decrease on one nook.

To make that angle decrease, first decrease the 2×4 proper right down to aspect, then line up the sting of the 2×4 so that the blade of the seen will solely decrease half of the tip. Set your miter take care of to the 45 diploma stop and make your decrease.

Subsequent, I drilled 1 1/2″ pocket holes in a single end of each of the 14″ 2×4 gadgets. Click on on proper right here to watch our Learn the way to make use of a Kreg Jig Video! Click on on proper right here to buy the K5 Kreg Jig on Amazon.

Uncover the place the angle cuts are in relation to the pocket holes.

Subsequent, I linked the 14″ piece to the 13″ piece with 2″ pocket hole screws and picket glue.

Lastly, join the cross brace to the corbel with picket glue and a pair of″ brad nails.

That’s the corbel the opposite approach up.

Now, join the corbels to the scrap piece of plywood. Make sure the pocket holes are on the choice aspect of the corbels. This may be important if you end up attaching the doorway of the desk. I linked the corbels 4″ from the ends of the plywood.

Proper right here is the desk bottom with the corbels.

Now, you probably can decrease the 1×6 gadgets for the doorway of the desk. I decrease one prolonged piece at 58 1/2″ and two gadgets at 13 1/2″.

Drill 3/4″ pocket holes into one end of each of the fast 1×6 gadgets.

Now, join the fast gadgets to the prolonged 1×6 piece with 1 1/4″ pocket hole screws and picket glue.

Proper right here is the doorway of the desk.

Subsequent, you probably can join the doorway of the desk to the underside of the desk. Use 1 1/4″ pocket hole screws and picket glue. The underside of the desk sit contained in the underside of the doorway physique of the desk.

The last word cuts may be for the very best of the desk. There may be a 3/4″ overhang on the doorway and sides of the desk. Decrease the 1×12 and the 1×4 at 60″.

Now, join the 1×4 to the very best of the desk with 1 1/4″ brad nails and picket glue. The 1×4 may be flush with the once more of the desk (the place it’s going to connect with the wall) and the edges will overhang 3/4″.

Almost achieved!

For those who occur to plan to utilize a lock to your desk, merely decrease a scrap piece of 1×4 at 3 1/2″ and join it to the center of the doorway of the desk with picket glue and brad nails, from the inside of the desk.

The spacer block may be flush with the very best of the doorway of the desk. Stop proper right here and switch on to setting up the cleat for the wall. We’re going to stain all of the issues sooner than hanging it on the wall, together with the {{hardware}} and the 1×12 excessive.

Decrease the cleat gadgets from a 2×4. I decrease one piece at 58 1/2″ and three gadgets at 11 3/4″. Drill 1 1/2″ pocket holes into one end of each of the fast gadgets.

I utilized one coat of Darkish Walnut stain by Rust-Oleum (you may discover it HERE on Amazon) all over the place within the desk and cleat gadgets. I merely wiped the stain on with a transparent material, let it web site for about 5 minutes then wiped it down with a model new clear material.

The Varathane stain dries in about an hour. As quickly because it’s dry, I took my Ryobi nook cat sander to it with an 80-grit sanding pad. I did this to supply the desk a additional rustic/distressed look to match the rest of my sons room.

Now to carry it on the wall. I like my desks to be 30″ extreme so I marked 30″ after which subtracted the height of the desk from that. The underside of my cleat have to be at 24 1/2″ so I marked that spot on the wall to attach my cleat.

Now you may discover the studs. That’s my favorite stud finder. You’ll uncover it HERE on Amazon.

Whenever you locale the studs, you probably can join the cleat to the wall with 3 1/2″ drywall screws. Make sure to utilize a level on excessive of the cleat to make sure your desk will sit diploma.

I added the middle help on the cleat after I linked it to the wall. I try this so that it doesn’t get in the best way during which if there happens to be a stud inside the heart.

Now, merely slide the desk over the cleat. The cleat will sit flush on the underside of the desk. Join the desk to the cleat from beneath the desk, with 1 1/4″ screws and add a few from the edges into the cleats. You probably can fill your screw holes, on the edges, with picket filler and phone them up with considerably dab of stain.

Now, you probably can join the 1×12 piece to the 1×4 piece with three hinges.