Studio Desk Makeover – Half 3 – Including Trim, Furnishings Ft, and Different Particulars

First, let me again up and remind you of the errors that I made on my first try so as to add panels to the present desk. Not solely did I set up the aspect ornamental vine panels the other way up. (To my eye, the vines wanted to “develop” up and never down.) However I additionally made the error of considering I might simply add boards to the within of the higher space to cover the drawers that I’ll be including.

So what I ended up with was this — an the other way up vine and an higher space that appeared prefer it needed to be an inset panel however failed as a result of the board was set means too far again. And it appeared awkward having the higher panel and the decrease ornamental panel set at totally different factors on the two″ x 2″ boards that fashioned the body of the desk.

To appropriate my errors, I wanted to start out by eradicating the ornamental panel. I used my Dremel Multi-Max to chop alongside the perimeters via the nails that had been holding the panel in. That left some gouges within the body items, so I needed to fill these with wooden filler and sand to clean out the harm.

After which after chopping the piece for the higher panel on my desk noticed in order that it might match contained in the body items, I used a chunk of 1/4-inch board as a spacer to connect it. That is a kind of specialty boards that you’ll find at House Depot or a craft retailer.

So I used this as a spacer whereas putting in the entire panels to ensure they had been all set into the desk body on the identical level.

Right here’s what the highest panel appeared like set contained in the body versus attaching behind the body.

It appeared so a lot better this fashion! I connected it utilizing 16-gauge nails shot via the body items above and under the panel, and into the perimeters of the panel. (The desktop isn’t presently connected, so I simply moved it over to entry the highest body piece so I might nail via it and into the highest fringe of the panel.)

After which I used the identical spacer to re-install the ornamental panel.

That appeared so a lot better! All the things appeared deliberate and intentional this time. Earlier than, it appeared haphazard and like an afterthought.

Within the footage under, you possibly can actually see the distinction that it made to carry these higher panels ahead contained in the desk body. Right here’s what it appeared like earlier than with the boards connected to the again of the desk body. Like this, the boards had been set again 1.5 inches…

And right here’s what it seems to be like after chopping the boards to suit contained in the desk body, and shifting these boards ahead contained in the body in order that they’re set again just one/4 inch…

After getting the entire panels in place, I began including trim. That is the place I actually began making stuff up as I went alongside. 😀 I used some cupboard trim from House Depot (the type that’s bought by the 8-foot piece and never by the linear foot) and determined to connect it to the entire horizontal desk body items. I favored the trim, the panels, and the leaf design. What I didn’t like was how these sq. legs appeared from the underside trim to the ground.

It appeared like I had taken a Parson’s desk and added trim to it to make it look conventional in type. It appeared very odd to my eye. So I headed to House Depot and acquired some furnishings legs. The size of the leg from the underside of the trim under the ornamental panel to the ground was six inches. The one six-inch furnishings legs that had been slim sufficient to make use of on my desk and that I might discover domestically had been these…

I wasn’t thrilled about it. I had vowed by no means to make use of these legs once more on any undertaking as a result of they’re so ubiquitous on DIY furnishings initiatives just because they’re so available at each House Depot and Lowe’s. However I both had to make use of these or wait a number of days for an internet order to point out up, and I simply wasn’t prepared to attend. In order that left me with one selection. I had to make use of these.

So I flipped the desk over on its again…

After which I used a handsaw to chop off the leg under the trim…

And I used to be left with this…

House Depot didn’t have the metallic inserts that match the screw on these legs, and the plates they promote to simply connect these legs to furnishings had been means too huge to suit this space of my desk. So I simply drilled a gap within the desk leg that was a dimension smaller than the screw prime on the furnishings leg, coated the highest of the furnishings leg with wooden glue, after which screwed it in. Then I bolstered it with some nails shot at an angle via the highest fringe of the legs and angled into the underside of the desk leg. As soon as the glue dried, the brand new legs had been very safe.

After flipping the desk over and repeating that on the again leg, that is what it appeared like.

Though these aren’t my favourite furnishings toes, I assumed this appeared so a lot better than having these plain, sq. legs going all the way in which to the ground.

After repeating that course of on the legs on the opposite aspect of the desk, the fundamental construct for the desk base was completed.

I did get the entire wooden filling completed final evening earlier than I went to mattress (nail holes, mitered trim corners, and so on.), so I’m hoping that I can get this base completed at present.

I’ll have to sand the entire wooden filler, after which prime the entire thing and provides it a fast sanding once more earlier than portray. I’ll additionally have to do some caulking to repair among the areas across the ornamental panels the place my Dremel Multi-Max left some fairly tough cuts. However I’m actually hoping that I can have this completed at present and get began on the desktop. I received’t have the ability to connect the drawers till the desktop is completed and in place.