Making my desk

I spent several months designing a desk to fit into my little corner of the living room. I work from home, so had very specific notions of what I wanted.

It was a lot of work, but to make it a little more fun I did this timelapse of the process. I set my Ricoh GX100 camera to take a photo every five seconds.

The film's frame rate is 30fps, so each second corresponds to 2.5 minutes of actual work.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• desk
• carpentry
• custom
• timelapse
• home
• improvement
• work
• wood
• paint
• tools
• diy

[FloppyHatPhotos]

Did the glass have a purpose or just to look cool?

[impulse9tucson]

@FloppyHatPhotos It's mostly so I can see the keyboard underneath it. But I do think it also looks cool. Unfortunately the desk is covered in stuff more often than I'd like to admit...

[TwiggyPunky]

How much did all the materials cost?

[impulse9tucson]

@TwiggyPunky It's been a few years, so I'm not sure the dollar amount would be the same, but: 2 4'x8' boards, a hand jigsaw, a gallon of really dark grey (almost black) paint, a cheap Ikea drawer, a used keyboard holder ($40 but usually a lot more), a pane of glass from an old entertainment center, some screws, and a corded power drill with some drill bits and hole cutters. So depending on what you already have and what you get elsewhere, from a hundred bucks to like $500?

[keykjokey]

can i buy it???

[impulse9tucson]

@keykjokey When I make the new desk, sure! I'd actually probably sell it for like $40, just because as practical as it is, it's really pretty ugly! Cool, but ugly. Like the bad guy's ship in the new Star Trek movie.

[Tom23S]

waste of time the wood looks tacky as fuck.

[unlockthepower]

Well placed Kleenex box for your internet porn jerk off sessions...

[rrubio]

Great. Was a great job

[tylerkenobster]

This is actually kind of amazing

[thanks1038]

I would have just bought a corner desk and some storage files but that's me

[Mercedes89beaver]

haha it the clock looked cool and that was pretty awesome