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| Kid's Pine Desk Complete |
Step 1: Plan it
Planning should be the first part of any project and Google Sketchup was used to plan this one. Google sketchup is a great piece of FREE software for do it yourselfers. After going through a few of the tutorials you will be able to design a few basic things. This desk's dimensions is H25" x W36" x D20".
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| Desk Design Done in Google Sketchup |
Step 2: Materials
1 - 3/4" x 12" x 36" Stain grade pine (support backing)
1 - 3/4" x 20" x 48" pine panel (cut in two for legs)
1 - 3/4" x 20" x 36" pine panel (Desk top)
1 - 1" x 2" x 6' pine strip (to make wood brackets)
16 - 8 x 1-1/4 phillips wood screws
25 - 8 x 2 phillips wood screws
Elmers wood glue
Step 3: Making the brackets
cut the pine strip into the following:
2 - 19 inch pieces
2 - 8 inch pieces
Pre drill 4 holes horizontally and 4 vertically in each piece using a 1/8 drill bit
Step 4: Preparing the legs
Cut the 48" pine panel in half. Note that cutting in half will not result in two equal pieces of 24" because the blade usually eats at 1/4" to 1/2" when cutting. Screw the 2 19 inch strips (one in each leg). This will be used as the support brackets for the legs. Screw these into the top of each leg using the 8x1-1/14 screws.
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| Legs with wood brackets (pine strip) |
Step 5: Adding legs to desk top
using the 8x2 screws, screw the legs into the desktop through the predrilled holes in the pine strip wood brackets.
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| Adding legs to desk top |
Step 6: Support Backing
cut 1.5 inches off the 3/4" x 12" x 36". attach the 8 inch pine strips to both sides for support backing and screw into both legs. Sand thoroughly and coat the desk in a polyurethane sealant. This will darken up the pine just a bit, but still leave the natural look. If you choose to stain, now is the time to do so.
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| Kid's Pine Desk Complete |
Step 7: Enjoy
And in a few easy steps you have a complete kid's desk made from pine.
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