DIY: A $75 Desk with a Stealth Touch of Glamor - Remodelista
Spotted on lifestyle blog Camille Styles, a simple desk with Ikea legs and a wooden top assembled from hardware store parts, stealth touch of glamor included.
The inspired detail that makes the design that much more interesting: Claire trimmed the front of the desktop with a gold metal band made from aluminum carpet edging: “I was wandering around Home Depot, waiting for something to jump out at me,” she says.
To give the desktop a handmade look–and ensure that it’s thick enough not to buckle–Claire used varying widths of pale knotty wood known as white wood.
Claire built her desk using a pair of Ikea Lerberg trestle legs in white powder-coated steel, $10 each. The wooden top simply rests on the legs and was built entirely from hardware store parts.
Claire keeps her desktop clutter free but well accessorized with, among other things, Hay’s colorful metal Kaleido Trays from Nannie Inez...
...starting at $16 each, and white-framed prints–a Fox poster by graphic designer Silke Bonde, €60 , and a graphic design by Alyson Fox (whose Modern Open Kitchen we recently spotlighted).
To give the desktop a handmade look–and ensure that it’s thick enough not to buckle–Claire used varying widths of pale knotty wood known as white wood.
