Diy Desk Made With File Cabinets

You want to pick out wood that will line up as best as possible.

Diy desk made with file cabinets.

Now it was time to build the desk. This week i worked on creating a desk made with file cabinets for my home office. The plan for this week was to build a diy file cabinet desk for my office. This is one of the most important parts.

3 2 drawer metal file cabinets approximately 29 high 13 5ft 2 baseboard trim liquid nails nuts and bolts wood filler sandpaper 150 grit tsp wire brush cup drawer pulls one for each drawer rustoleum flat black paint and metallic gun metal gray electric drill. I took two well made file cabinets and added a shelf board to create a top. Beautiful life market made this diy desk with filing cabinets as part of their ugly home office makeover. A few cinder blocks and a board are the only ingredients in this simple diy desk recipe.

Place a piece of double faced tape on each corner of the top of each file cabinet. Ka styles took a 100 year old file cabinet and turned it into a gorgeous piece so love that she has a story to go with this piece of history. Check out my desk that was built with stock cabinets to see how it was done. So not only did they makeover the cabinets themselves in this amazing navy and copper look love those legs they made a desk top too.

These diy built in cabinets were made using unfinished wall cabinets as base cabinets. To start i had to measure out the space draw up some plans and decide what i d like to see in the space. It is perfect if you are working with books and papers. It did take some unexpected turns with the color choices but i couldn t be happier with the results.

The diy file cabinet project was a blast. Dec 7 2019 explore susan campbell s board file cabinet desk on pinterest. Diy file cabinet desk. The first step was to get the wood.

See more ideas about file cabinet desk craft room office home office design. I went the cheap route pine 1 6 planks from home depot. Diy desk from stock cabinets woodland office. When i first showed you my office makeover back in march i said that i was so mad at myself for not doing it sooner because i felt like having an office that was organized and beautiful made me much more productive.

A place to get file cabinets that only cost a few bucks is your local habitat for humanity restore. Everything you will need. 4 cinder block desk. We love this idea because this gives you more room on the desktop.

I needed 5 to make my desk about 28 inches deep. Place the two file cabinets in the location of your desk approximately 58 apart outside to outside with their backs about 1 away from the wall.