Do you or your kids need a desk?
But you don't have much space at home?
Then this superb desk with storage is exactly what you need!
A friend of mine made this hanging desk with just 2 wooden boards and a little elbow grease.
She showed me how to make it at home and I can tell you it's super easy!
It's a great project to do for the weekend, to create a workspace even when you don't have much space . Watch:
- 2 wooden planks of 180 cm (preferably oak)
- 3 metal L-brackets of 10 cm
- electric drill with bits and screwdriver
- 12 wood screws of 5 or 6 cm
- material detector
- wood oil (optional)
1. I bought the two oak planks at the DIY store.
2. I asked for the two boards to be cut into two large 160cm pieces and two smaller 15cm pieces for the sides.
3. I drilled holes at regular intervals across the width of the top and bottom boards.
4. I also drilled holes on the thickness of the small side boards, respecting the same spacing as for the large boards, to put the screws in them as in the image below.
5. Then I screwed each short side to the bottom board.
6. And I fixed the 3 brackets on the wall, taking care to align them well.
7. I screwed the top board to the brackets with the electric screwdriver.
8. I then screwed the bottom board and the sides to the top board.
There you go, my beautiful minimalist wooden desk is already ready :-)
Easy, fast and economical, right?
It's much cheaper to make it yourself than to buy it!
All you have to do is oil the wood to protect it.
This tends to darken the tone of the wood while retaining its matte finish.
Me, I love my office! I can work on it quietly and store all my files in it.
- You can change the dimensions of the wooden planks depending on the available space you have at home. Either bigger or smaller. As for small boards, I advise you to keep a height of at least 10 cm high to have room to store stuff in it.
- Before drilling the holes to fix the brackets to the wall, use a material detector. This device makes sure that there are no electrical cables or pipes passing where you want to make the holes.
- Be sure to align the brackets by drawing a line with a pencil using a spirit level.
- Use this trick to make the holes for the brackets in the right place in the wall.
- To fix the top board to the brackets, screw from below so as not to make marks on the desk.
- And make sure that the screws are not too long so as not to pierce the worktop of the desk.
- You will probably need a hand to hold the two parts together while you screw them together in step 4. It's easier if there are two of you.
