![]() ![]() Make sure your screws are short so they don’t pierce the top of your beautifully stained desktop!! Later on I slapped some wall paint on the cleat and it’s not visible at all.Īfter installing the brackets to the wall, place the wood on top and use screws to attach the bracket from underneath. I opted to add a scrap piece of wood as a cleat to give some additional support. Install the brackets to the wall either into studs, or using anchors and screws. I spray painted the brackets with black satin-finish spray paint, the same one I used for the bookcase (side note: if you do a lot of spray painting, do you have one of these? I seriously can’t live without it. ![]() The stain takes to various species of wood differently, so the color is a bit deeper and richer on the birch desk top than the trim and the bookcase’s select pine shelves, but they are pretty close and it all looks cohesive without being matchy-matchy. For the wood in Peter’s room I used a combination of Minwax Jacobean with a bit of Mahogany. This is the best part!! I love seeing how the wood takes the stain!! I like to stain with a lint free rag (old t-shirts that have been washed a million times are perfect), sanding with a fine grit sandpaper between coats. Next up stain the top of the birch and the trim pieces. I cut the trim pieces on my compound miter saw, but they would be very easy to cut with a miter box and saw too! Birch is an excellent material for staining, as it has a smooth finish and pretty grain. I determined I wanted the depth of the desk to be 18″, then had a piece of birch plywood cut for me at the hardware store. Plywood cut to size (I used 1/2″ wide birch, see below), trim for exposed edges of desktop (the width of your plywood), wood stain, stainable wood filler, wood glue or Liquid Nails, finish nails, brackets, screws and anchors for attaching brackets to wall, short screws to attach bracket to wood, scrap wood for extra support, fine grit sandpaper.ĭetermine size and have a piece of plywood cut. This post includes affiliate links for your convenience. Here’s how I built this very simple desk. ![]() I love the wood tones with the black walls. They are perfect because they can hold a lot of weight and they give the illusion of the desk floating. Taking into consideration the squared off frame of the bookcase, I looked for some kind of support that would recede into the background and let the wood top be the star, and finally decided on these very un-sexy shelf brackets that are used to support wire shelving in closets and pantries. I could have built wood supports but I wanted the mix of wood and metal to mimic the bookcase. I also really wanted to built a very simple desk with clean lines, that wouldn’t take up a lot of visual space but would give Peter a big workspace to spread out on, and this minimalist design in what I came up with. Last week I showed you how I used a couple of cheap Ikea shelving units to make a custom-sized bookcase to hold all of Peter’s sports memorabilia and books. I’m back today with another DIY from Peter’s Moody Masculine Mighty bedroom makeover. ![]()
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