The easiest way to do this, is to sand down your piece, and then empty the wood grain from your sander, and then mix it will some water and wood glue. The best way to get a nice finish with wood putty is to use grains of the same wood. Your desktop and shelves will likely also have some holes and empty gaps, so you will also need to fill them before you move onto staining your pieces.
Once the glue is dry, you can use a track saw, or circular saw, to straighten out these edges and make your desktop the desired length. You can see in the photo above that the edges of the desktop are not straight. If your desktop bows, there will not be an easy way to straighten it after the glue dries. Make sure that you are clamping is flat and level. Use the biscuit joiner to add biscuits every 5-10 inches, and then glue the biscuits in place, as well as gluing the both inside edges.īring the two sides together and clamp them in place. It adds much more structural integrity than just glue alone. If you’ve never used a biscuit joiner, it adds little wooden discs, called biscuits, into the wood so that the biscuits are half-way inside each half of the desktop. The easiest way to do this is with a biscuit joiner and glue. The next step in making the DIY desktop is attaching the two 10″ pieces together. We used the planer instead of just sanding everything because it’s the best way to make sure that the finish is smooth, flat, and the exact same all of the way across the desktop or shelves. This is the reason we had to glue the 10″ wide boards together instead of making one big 20″ desktop glued together from the beginning – because a 20″ desktop wouldn’t fit inside the planer. Once the glue is dry, sand down the glue spots and run your boards through the planer. We glued pieces together until they made two 10″ pieces (for our 20″ side desktop), and two 6.5″ pieces (one for each floating shelf). Once the boards were cut into 2″ strips, we glued them together and clamps them tight, keeping them flat. That way we had room to play if the boards weren’t 100% straight when glued together (which they NEVER are!). We wanted a 2″ thick desktop that was 88″ long, and 2″ thick floating shelves that were 88″ long.Įven though we wanted 88″ long for our space, we actually cut our boards to 90″ and used a track saw to cut off the excess ends once the desktop and shelves were glued together (I’ll share at the end). We started by using the table saw to cut down the boards to length and width.
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Tools Needed for DIY Desktop and Floating Shelvesįrom Top Left to Bottom Right Step-by-Step Instructions for Building a DIY Desktopĭesktops can be crazy expensive! When we came up with this affordable DIY version, I was so happy! If you are making the desk and floating shelves the wood plus some $20 hardware brackets is only going to set you back $100!
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There is a full video tutorial below to help make all of the steps clear as well! Materials Needed for DIY Desktop and Floating Shelves
The only difference between the two, is the overall width, and the way you attach them to the wall (the shelves require a special invisible bracket). The process for making the DIY desktop and floating shelves is almost exactly the same. Once we started the desktop, we decided to make the floating shelves out of the same material. We did a project for someone else, and had a bunch of spare strips of plywood leftover, and he said, “what if we glued all of this together and used this for our desktop?”. This is one of those DIY ideas that made me realize my husband was a genius.
For more information, please see our disclosure page.* When you buy a product through one of our links, we get a commission at no cost to you! Thank you for supporting our blog so that we can continue to bring you posts like these. But if you don’t have the wood, it’s only going to cost you $40 for a sheet of plywood! Talk about affordable! This is one of my favourite DIY projects that we’ve ever done! I told you all months ago that I would share how we made it and I TOTALLY dropped the ball! But I’m sharing it now, so you all forgive me, right?! We put this DIY Wood Desktop on when we made our computer desk nook, and we didn’t spend a dime! We had spare wood, and already had all of the tools we needed.
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Jump to How-to A great tutorial sharing how to make your own easy & affordable DIY Wood Desktop and matching floating shelves! Finish your desk off with this sleek design!
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