 We just made this desk for our daughter And we just made this desk for our other daughter and we made them both for under $100 in an afternoon And we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back feeling to do it builder make it we do too and we have a new video each week This week. We're making two student desks Like super cheap super easy Super simple. I'm trying to get in and out as easy as possible So most of you probably know that we made our desk a couple of months ago and we received some comments around The price of the desk it was $55 when we built it But the price of lumber with COVID has skyrocketed Our girls have transitioned to virtual school and they'll be in virtual school all the year this year So they now need desk we started the year with a fold-up table and Another fold-up like side table thing Because one has a little bit of room and one has a little more room and they're two different girls two different styles Yes, one's a pack rat and one is a minimalist. I mean she has nothing in her room She doesn't want anything in her room So so one wants one wants storage and the other one wants a slat of wood She can put her laptop on pretty much pretty much. So these are two easy desks anyone can build them and Minimal tools and quick and easy quick and easy. I mean easy The desk one step one we're gonna gather all of our materials. We need a 20 by 48 inch project board four crates Some paints some blue some brad nails And I think that's it and you can use screws if you don't have a brad nailing Yeah, you can use screws or a little hammer and tiny tiny some tiny screws nails. I mean nails Desk one step two Ooh now we paint So painting is the biggest part of this desk build. Yeah, because there's not so much building. It's more assembling in this project So for hers first the youngest one. This is the 13 year old. She just turned 13 in August. So She's the pack rat. We always call her our Yeah She's got hidey holes everything like a ferret if something's missing ask her for it She'll find it and it'll be in her room. Yeah, so she definitely needs a place to but she's also the most organized Yes, her room is clean This stuff stowed away everywhere, so I know for a cheap desk I'm not building drawers for this quick build She is going to need a place to put her books and some supplies So I think these crates will do it. We're gonna stack two on each on top of each other and To give it some interest in a little bit of life instead of painting it Yeah, instead of painting it the same color all over. I'm going to do the outside in gray and the inside in pink We're gonna use our country chic paints and the outside will be in this pebble beach Oh, and the inside oops the inside is going to be in this vintage cupcake her colors in her room are Gray white and pink, so this might not be everyone's favorite color scheme But I think she's going to love it. Yeah, so pink and gray and then the top will be in white and We're gonna add. Oh what the great thing is we haven't had an opportunity to use this yet And I'm really looking forward to it. This is country sheets tough coat tough coat. It's a tough top coat So once the paint goes on we're gonna add this tough coat on top and hopefully that'll help keep this What more more maintenance free, what's the word I'm looking for a little more resilient. Yeah durable resilient Yes, yeah more adjectives that describe tough Exactly. Oh, I didn't say what I was going to do the top in I think I'm gonna do the top in simplicity So we use we've used a lot of the crinoline in white So now I'm gonna show you another version of white that they have I haven't tried it yet I have taken the top off, but I haven't tried it yet simplicity Simplicity I hope it goes on just as easy All right, I've done my first coat of paint on this crate and I'm not loving it Not from there like I'm looking in the viewer over there And it looks good from a really far distance and really tiny. Maybe we have to squint at it all the time But up close here. This is I don't really like this baby pink So I think well, we'll grace like the baby pink Well, maybe probably But I want this finished project to look nice. So I may have to just paint the whole thing gray and What I would like to do and I saw it on a country chic's website is like What is it like sticky paper? So wallpaper with the adhesive wallpaper the outside With a nice pattern and then maybe just end up leaving the inside gray because I Don't know if I'm loving to tell you So as I probably mentioned as I was painting here, I am not loving the pink on the inside of this Like I said, it looks good from over there, but up close. It's it's not not what I want Looks like a rotten watermelon kind of like moldy on the outside I don't know. It just isn't the look I was going for so I told Garrett what I wanted and He found this a solution. I got this Like contact paper this shelf lining adhesive shelf lining from a of the Pioneer woman. I Figured she's got to know what she's talking about That's what he said. She's pretty popular. I figure like I felt like she knew what she was talking about So you pick this up at Walmart. It was actually like five bucks. Yeah, not too bad. So we are going to Try this idea. I saw this actually on country chic's website. They did something similar with a crate So I'm going to Replicate that idea and let's see how it goes All right, all right, so how are we gonna we were just talking about how we might approach this? What's the plan? Say we? Cut it like a quarter inch a little longer Slide it in lay it down and then cut out the slats Okay, I think sure. I know what that means. All right Let's just see how it goes Back for some top coat. It's gonna be a desk. So it needs to be durable. It's gonna get worked on Yeah, definitely. It is going to take a beating. I'm sure. Oh, yeah, so this is country chic's tough coat Typically when you create a piece of furniture and you use chalk paint You would add a coat of wax on top which you could do here But this is just a little bit more durable and so I think given that this is going to be a desktop I think this is what we should use. Yeah So let's see what we've got here All right, it's gonna do both desktops don't get crazy desk one step three Now we're gonna glue it and brad nail it together Like we're gonna make the bottom one Point out and the top one point in standing up like Are you wrestling with that thing? Turn the side which of that other sides are rough some of these are kind of rough and I wanted it to be rough side down rough side down rough side down All right, now I'm just gonna hit him with a three-quarter inch brad the nail not the guy now I'm gonna hit it with a One and a quarter inch brad Gonna go through the tops to the top the nail not the guy Let's go put it up in the room. We'll carry it upside down for now Desk number two a step one. We're gonna gather all of our materials for this one. We needed a project board again but we had the home improvement shop That's right. Shop. Hey Make our cut for us because it was a little longer and I need to like doing it at home You get one free cut. I used it We cut it down to 35 inches because that's the amount of space we have in this daughter's room We also needed one one by five. I Put it underneath this board so I can't show you and then four of these cheap table legs 29 inches That's it and then some glue some paint some screws Usual suspects a Desk to step to we're gonna make all of our cuts Like I said, I tagged out on this longboard This big one had my local hardware shop. Hey make my cut for me And my one by five I need to make two 28 inch cuts and two 13 inch cuts I already measured it out And I'm gonna make both of those cuts Or is that all of those cuts? With my pocket saw It's very pocket saw a day Well, I guess it's not What is this four cuts on the day total? Not too bad. Not too shabby That's how I like it And found myself a pocket hole jig and we're gonna throw pocket holes in the backs of all these pocket holes like a Sideways hole comes into the angle kind of hides the screw So that's what we're gonna do to all of these we're gonna hide all of our screws Now you could do this without a pocket hole jig Well, you can't make a pocket hole, but you can put it together without a pocket hole jig You're just gonna have to drill through the legs desk to a step three Now we paint Again, it's a lot of painting. I told you that was the biggest part of this whole project So for this one this one is 15 years old and She's in my minimalist. So she wanted everything white and I told her no We needed a pop of color So her second favorite color, I guess was a teal color. So we are gonna use bliss this Country chic chalk paint in bliss and then the top I agreed to have the top in white And we're gonna use the simplicity So we're gonna paint the ribbon board and the legs in bliss and just the top in white Back to painting Back again with the tough coat again. It's a desk. It's gonna be used heavily Hopefully I hope I hope it's used table right It better get used heavily Desk to a step four and now we assemble We're gonna use all these little ribbon boards. I remember the name First we got to take the screws out of the the steps steps the legs Okay, back at it. Just gonna lay it out. There's a rounded part that goes out Remember our pocket holes. We're gonna point those towards this tabletop Because we're gonna screw on our tablet We're just using these one and a quarter inch pocket hole screws But in the pocket holes Made by the Craig dick not the pocket. So This I did yep See that brought that leg down There you go. Desk number two step of this Teen work area makeover. We're gonna give them some pegboard There's a metal pegboard so they can use magnets and stuff too, but we're gonna spray paint them. So They're looking pretty industrial and black Although I'm pretty sure you could do some really cool things with them Yeah, but I think we're gonna do one of them in teal and one of them in pink still since she wants the pink So I'll take them out and spray them and then we'll hang them up. They look pretty easy Two student desks little a workspace makeover Just took an afternoon. It was pretty easy Just how I like them. We use some great paint colors. I finally got the look I was going for with this one She's got her storage. We face these to the inside so she could kind of we could hide some of the junk on the outside Remember, she's a pack rat. So they're gonna be stuffed with stuff So we didn't want them facing outwards. That's why they're facing in and the one thing I didn't show we added the tough coat on the top of this desk for the teal desk But it didn't show that we clear waxed the legs So you want to do that on top of your chalk paint. We have not waxed our legs yet. I have never waxed my legs That's a different story for another day All right, look what time it is. It's about that time So we got to go So we'll see you guys next weekend where we'll do it build it and make it again Did I just say weekend? Yeah, I just let him in on a little secret All right, I guess I could balance this desk It's a little heavier than I was expecting