Well, I am officially in love with this desk. I especially love that we made it from reclaimed pieces! The cabinet we bought farm-fresh from Junkstock and the wood is actually pieces of the waterbed frame that came with our house. You can buy similar base cabinets from Lowes, Home Depot, etc. There are also tutorials online to build your own. I encourage you to find reclaimed pieces for the top, but they can also be purchased at the lumber yard. When buying boards you have the luxury of getting them cut to fit, which would have saved us some of the hassle in step two.
I looked and looked online for a small desk with our without a hutch to put in our space, but they were either too big, too expensive, or too cheaply made. I even looked at buying a new base cabinet to use, but they were too wide and too expensive. At Junkstock we were on the hunt for a 36 inch wide desk or a small base cabinet. Luckily we found the perfect little cabinet from Weston Primitive Co. You can visit their Facebook page by clicking here!
So, now we have a cabinet, but we needed a topper piece to act as the workstation. Having a cute used cabinet was not good enough for us, we wanted to find some wood we could reuse for the top. We had some nice wide boards from an old waterbed frame we had dismantled, and figured they would make a great work surface for our desk. So, not only is the cabinet used and farmfresh, the wood top is reclaimed. The shelf above the desk is also from the bed frame.
I have to admit, our craftsmanship is good, but our tutorial making is a bit shoddy. But, here it goes anyway: a step-by-step for making your own kitchen desk.
