Diy Desk Made With File Cabinets

4 cinder block desk.

Diy desk made with file cabinets.

The plan for this week was to build a diy file cabinet desk for my office. It is perfect if you are working with books and papers. You want to pick out wood that will line up as best as possible. A few cinder blocks and a board are the only ingredients in this simple diy desk recipe.

They have a lot of doors too. Dec 7 2019 explore susan campbell s board file cabinet desk on pinterest. Check out my desk that was built with stock cabinets to see how it was done. I took two well made file cabinets and added a shelf board to create a top.

It did take some unexpected turns with the color choices but i couldn t be happier with the results. Beautiful life market made this diy desk with filing cabinets as part of their ugly home office makeover. 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 went the cheap route pine 1 6 planks from home depot. These diy built in cabinets were made using unfinished wall cabinets as base cabinets. Place a piece of double faced tape on each corner of the top of each file cabinet. Diy file cabinet desk.

This week i worked on creating a desk made with file cabinets for my home office. To start i had to measure out the space draw up some plans and decide what i d like to see in the space. The diy file cabinet project was a blast. This gorgeous desk built by pam at over the big moon was my inspiration for this week s project.

Now it was time to build the desk. See more ideas about file cabinet desk craft room office home office design. The first step was to get the wood. A place to get file cabinets that only cost a few bucks is your local habitat for humanity restore.

Peel off backing strip. Diy desk from stock cabinets woodland office. I needed 5 to make my desk about 28 inches deep. Everything you will need.

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. 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.