Building a Floating Desk With a Drawer
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- Опубликовано: 20 мар 2021
- I built a floating desk in my daughter's bedroom into a strange nook that didn't have a lot of practical uses. Adding in a drawer created additional storage that will allow her to use it for crafts, storage, and studying!
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Scribing plywood into an an opening with three closed sides is a difficult task, but you did a credible job of making it happen. Your desk looks fantastic, I am sure your daughter will enjoy her Mom’s handy work !
Much respect for showing mistakes. Even more for doing your own work. Nice to see younger folks who have it together.
As a professional carpenter of over 30 years, three walled shelves still give me night sweats. Cardboard templates is the best way to handle those, but that means more work and more time.
Very Cool, I'm going to use this for a friend. Thank You!!
You did a fantastic job
My favorite part quote (11:10 -11:17) keeping it real . Good job Melissa , your improv skills are improving . Thrifty Irish Mom builds it.
At 5:33, that was scary. Please use a miter fence or a sled next time when the width (perpendicular to the cut) exceeds the length (in the direction of the cut) . We don't want you to get impaled on a piece of plywood. Otherwise, nicely done on the overall project!
Awesome work, and very inspirational. :)
That turned out beautifully! I especially loved the beveled drawer front on the close.
Great job. We may do this in my son’s room.
Another awesome project! I like the way you think things thru and accomplish so much with very little equipment. Your gravity clamp desk dance was worth the whole video lol!
I fully expected Melissa to wing it with crazy makeshift tools and come out perfect the first time. Hahaha
Perfect the second time haha
U R FEARLESS! I'm recently retired & have a list of projects but I'm so worried of messing up I talk myself out of most of em. U R inspiring. Thank u 4the videos.
What's the harm in trying? I've failed hundreds of times - on video for thousands of people to see. You can do this!
Beautiful job! Thanks for sharing!
Same here, never. Who needs a box anyway? Hahah
Instead of a Compass you could’ve just press the pencil flat against the wall, another method is to put a thin strip of metal or a ruler against the wall and then just trace the other edge of the board and then just measure the difference. With gaps that smart I usually just eyeball it and look at the wide end of the gap and measure that and then mark that on the other side of the board and draw straight line between the short corner in the mark on the other end of the board. Another option is to use trim if you don’t wanna deal with it at all. Lol. I built just like this a couple of times, the drawer slides was a great idea, I just made desktops and sometimes are hanging shelf to put my computer on. I never thought of dancing on top of the table to hold it down. 😂
I think it looks great. :)
Great job and nice tips on your build. Thanks for sharing.
This shirt looks fire. Good stuff
Came out great. I'm going to be doing something similar but not nearly as involved. Glad to see that with a little extra work you can make it look very tidy and neat.
OMG! LOVE! LOVE! LOVE THE BEVELLED EDGE IDEA! It looks seamless and beautiful!
What a creative mind you have. Great job. 👍
Superb! Thank you so much 😍 I’ve subscribed and about to work my way through all of your videos 😀
Awesome build Melissa! your thought process is amazing. I really enjoy your videos. 👌
This is fantastic, you are so creative!
Nice job
What you do on your own is amazing and much better than I could every do. I love the washer trick for scribing. I believe this is the way early Monks also scribed. :-)
Wow...you kept after it...very nice
Wow, what an awesome project! That turned out great! I love your ingenuity. Who needs a compass anyway?
Nice build and looks great!
You are incredible so brave 👍🏻 great job.
That looks so good with the window right next to it! Super inviting.
Yeah, until you have the glare all over your computer screen, or the heat gain during the summer.
Great job girly!!! I love it. Truly! Soooo awesome.
Came out great. Especially enjoyed the tip about what to do when you can't clamp something. LOL
😂
Cool washer trick!
I'm impressed!
Outstanding
Very cool build.
Nicely done very good I love it
For me, the entertaining part about your videos is how your mind works. Here's the thing, for anyone that has not built a drawer, a drawer is *not* a box. A box is far easier to build than a drawer. Once you have built several of each you'll understand.
Embrace the 45* lock miter bit - embrace it! Once you get the hang of working with one you will hate using pocket holes. Yes, there is a time and place for pocket holes, however, In this case a lock miter joint would have been better.
A little tip for the usual pocket hole 'creep' (which happens even with Kreg clamps) is to glue it first or use the trusty CA and activator. With the CA and activator it would not have allowed 6:23 to happen.
Nice job !
You did a onderful job !!!👍👍👍
Really nice work 👍 it
YOU ARE A GREAT INSPURATION GREAT JOB !!!!!!
How are you doing? I hope all is well with the bump and thanks for sharing the project, it was great to see you trying new skills and demonstrating them to us.
Thanks for asking! I'm doing very well! Baby is super healthy and I feel normal as I'm still in the second trimester. I'm sure in a few months I'll slow down. 😉
I love this channel and love your creativity!!! I do a lot of remodeling and I to like thinking outside the box (Ex: Remodeled the kitchen and put LED strips under the cabinets by the kick plate so that I don't have to turn on the lights in the middle of the night and blind myself) I enjoy watching your channel, your projects, and the way you do things for the normal people who don't have 1,000's of dollars in fancy tools can be creative as well. Keep up your amazing work.
So happy to have inspired you!! Thanks for watching Kevin!
Brava!👍👍👍
Congrats on your first drawer! The desk turned out great! Getting those bevels to line up perfectly is really difficult. Rather than doing 45 degree angles on both, you can do one at 45 and the other at 46, that way there is a gap on the inside that you wouldn't see, but the corner edges line up nice and tight. I think it looks great as is though!
That's a really good idea!
FAAAABULOOOOUUUUUS! 👍👍👍👍
I love it. neat
awesome videos, I def identify with a lot of the stuff you do. First, I am always trying to do projects on a small budget and that means not always having the best/ right tools, like you. Second, I see you are always working on the floor of your garage with table saw and miter saw, me too! Third, we both shop A LOT at Menards, I can tell by the brand of tools you have, lol
Love it ! Very well crafted!!
Use dumbbells for weight in back.
Fantastic job! Thanks for all that info. What about putting a pull on that drawer?
There's no need, you can just put your fingers underneath to open it. Without hardware it better accomplishes my goal of a hidden look.
No entiendo lo que dice. Pero me gusta verla trabajar. Y escucharla. Y verla sonreír. Y verla.
Melissa, next time you’re trying to scribe something like that try making yourself a “ticking stick “ . I use mine a lot and works well in many situations!
I've seen those before and need to make one!
See Jane Drill has a great video that shows how to make and use one.
Melissa, how did you know where exactly to mount the drawer slides?
Retired Journeyman Carpenter here. You definitely need an actual compass. Next time just cut the piece a little larger than needed. Scribe by holding the board tilted up and set your compass to the largest gap. Repeat for the other side. Additionally you can always bevel cut the back side slightly and use a planar to scribe it to fit and then you aren't scribing the entire thickness of the material.
planer*
Why not use a regular scrib?
!!! Melissa, please never use your rip fence to crosscut stock. See grieske's comment below. You were very very lucky. Lookup crosscutting with a table saw. Great job.
Good work. Guess you could have added a 2x4 at back.
Its not a 48 “ desk lol 😂
Wish I had an alcove for a desk such as the one created in the video. I'll have to use brackets. Great job nevertheless. 👍
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I want to be your son! :D
too many ads !!
You rarely show yourself. It’s odd. It’s not going to help your cause.
Well, every time I show myself, I get comments about how I'm not wearing enough PPE. So there ya go :)
It's not going to help her cause? TF? She is showing people how she made a floating desk! Showing herself has nothing to do with it. 🙄 If you want to look at people, go to a park.