 Are you stuck at home? Is your workspace now from home? Do you need a desk? We just made this DIY farmhouse desk for $55. I will show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do a build or make it? I know you do. That's why you're here and we do it every week. Much love to our patrons. Megan. This week we're building a $55 farmhouse desk. Yes, now that we're in this extended work from home posture and a day job, I'm going to need a permanent place to have a place to work, use my laptop. Get out of the kitchen. Yeah, get out of the kitchen. Take your office out of the dining room and actually make it an office. For us, we're stuck up here in the studio. I have a little corner where I have my desk right here next to all this filming stuff. It's like a redheaded step child. Get over there in the corner. Yeah. Get to work. Like a Bob Cratchit kind of deal. All right, back to what we're doing. Yeah, step zero. We're going to gather all of our supplies. We're going to start with getting some plans. We picked them up from Handmade Haven. We just needed eight 2x4s, a 1x2, some 1x6s, 5 of them. I can't pick it up. And then some plywood that you don't see on the table. 2 foot by 4 foot, 3 quarter inch plywood, pocket hole screws, some glue. And of course our pocket hole jig. Craig. Hi, Craig, jig. Craig, jig. Step one. We're going to make one of the sides. I think we'll start with the left side. I don't know what side it is. Both ends are going to be the same. So you're going to make two of what we're getting ready to make. We need a 2x4s at 31 and a quarter and two at 19 inches. And I'm going to cut as I go using my pocket saw. I still love this guy. We go everywhere together. I'll show you some of our times out on the town. We're not going anywhere. So cut. We just have to throw some pocket holes into that 19 inch, put them on both sides. Some two and a half inch pocket hole screws. So we're going to attach the 19 inch 2x4 to the top of the two 30. What is it? 31 and a quarter inches. Legs. Maybe I should just said legs. Side one. Almost done. Step two. Now we're going to make a cross brace. Make the first part of the X. We're going to lay it in here and draw a mark on it. And that's where we're cutting it. I guess we can do this way. Step three. Now we're going to take this 2x4 and lay it back here and draw on this where it goes. Some more pocket holes. Now we just need two of these. Oh, side B. All done. Step four. Now we're going to make the other side. We need two of the 31 and a quarters and another one of the 19s with pocket holes in it. Yeah, this side doesn't get an X. This one's easy. This is like the inside leg. Yes. It is a step four. Yep, that was step four. Step five. Now we're going to cut three 2x4s to 43 and a half. These are going to be the stretchers. And then we're going to put pocket holes on the ends and pocket holes on the tops. Now we're going to put pocket holes on the ends of all three of these 43 and a half 2x4s. And then on the ones that we're using as the top, we're going to put some pocket holes on the top piece. There's a top and it goes like that. There's a top and it goes like that. And this is a top. It goes like that, right? And that's a bottom. And it goes to three, two and three quarters. This is flush. Flush and flush, uh-huh. Flush with the top of the two desk sides. And the bottom stretcher should be two and three quarters from the bottom. It's starting to look like a real desk. Man, that's something dad looking. Step six. Now we're going to add the two little slanty pieces that go in the back of your desk. The braces. The braces. They'll hold the top header and footer together with these cross braces. I'm going to lift one end. That looks good to me. Oh, the desk has a slant. Step seven. Then we're going to cut our two by two down to 19 inches, two of them. And then we're going to go ahead and cut two at 17 inches real quick too. I'm feeling a bit caged in. Put these faces outward. Four and three quarters on the bottom and eleven and a half on the top. Step eight. Now we're going to attach this other side piece that we got with these 17 inch two by fours. We put some pocket holes in them and then some pocket holes on the top. So we'll touch the top in a minute. Step nine. Now we're going to add these two by twos that we're going to use for shelves. Step ten. Now we're going to add the shelves. The plans call for three quarter inch plywood, but we're going to use some one by sixes because that's what we have left over. We're going to flip it upside down so it's easier to reach these pocket holes. Now we're going to do the top. We're going to pin it all together. We're supposed to use a one by sixes, but I went with one by tens so there'd be less seams. These are cut at 65 inches and we're just going to add pocket holes now. Yep. Pocket holes. Pocket holes. Remember, one doesn't need pocket holes. Yeah. Yeah, just two of them. We're going to take this thing down and give it a stain on top and white paint on the bottom. We'll attach the top and put it in place. I don't think we can attach the top and get it out of the craft room. No. I think that's the problem. So we're going to stain it, paint it, and put it together in the office. We'll meet you guys there. Last step, we attach the top to the bottom. We have it flipped and we're going to use some one and a quarter inch pocket hole screws around those pocket holes that we put in the tops of some of these boards. What do you guys think? That's fairly easy, huh? Not too hard, not too bad. Do you guys need a new desk? Do you need a place to work at home? Let us know down below if you guys need a desk. If you're going to make a desk, if you made a desk, if you're going to make this desk. Also, give us a like, a share. 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