Hello and happy Leap Day! I’m excited to be teaming up with my friends at BuildSomething.com again! If you’ve been hanging around here lately, you may remember me mentioning BuildSomething when I built my kids’ farmhouse craft table, scrap wood tool box, and bathroom shelf. If you love building and sharing your projects, but don’t have a blog or website to show off your creations, BuildSomething.com is a great place to do it. Their website is so intuitive; it’s really simple to upload and share your original building plans and DIY projects there and it’s free to join.
After buying a brand new computer, I’ve had everything ‘home office’ on the brain lately. Can you tell from this post and this post? We don’t have an extra room to dedicate as my home office, so I cleared out a small space in my bedroom for my workspace. I also didn’t have a desk, so, of course, I had to build one!
Here’s what I came up with:
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I just love my new desk and it’s already getting so much use! I designed it so that I can keep my printer hidden behind two faux drawer fronts. The printer is tucked neatly away, on a slide-out tray. I also used a hole saw to cut two holes out of the back panel to feed power cords through.
Because the pull-out printer tray fully extends, I needed hinges that would allow the door to open 180º. After much searching, I found these partial wrap-around hinges. I highly recommend them because they were easy to install and work perfectly for a frameless cabinet with an inset door.
Do you want the building plans? You know I’ve got you covered.
Click here to download the building plans for this DIY Desk with Printer Storage.
Do you like that snazzy succulent planter? Can you believe that’s a scrap 2×4?
Here’s the tutorial on how to make a DIY Hexagon Planter out of scrap 2×4 wood!
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Thanks for reading, friends! Be sure to swing by BuildSomething.com and download the building plans for this DIY Desk with Printer Storage! Happy building!
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Beautiful desk! And additionally, I love your calendar! What is that, a piece of acrylic or glass? I assume you use dry erase marker on it for month to month things, but the boxes / days of the week / permanent writings, is that paint?
Thanks for any info you can share!
Thanks Heather! I’ll be sharing the tutorial on my DIY calendar soon – the calendar is made of acrylic and I cut out vinyl decals for the months and days. I use a chalk marker to write on it. I needed a white marker against the dark wall and it works perfectly!
I love this! That calendar is to die for!
That printer storage is the best! We had one like that on a built in unit in our old house and now in my new house my printer sticks out like a sore thumb. Seriously such a great idea. We did the faux door front too and the slide out tray so we could still fax and scan. Love this Jen great job! I also love that buildsomething site. I had seem them on IG but not been to their site, I signed up thanks to you!
Awesome! Yes, who likes the look of a bulky printer? Better to hide it away 🙂 Thanks for stopping by and for taking the time to leave your lovely note, Jennifer!
Hi Jen,
What did you use around the drawers on the desk?
Hi Maribel,
Are you talking about the nailheads?
Lovely! What is the wall color? It’s awesome!
Thank you Lauren. I believe the wall color is Benjamin Moore Iron Mountain.
Hi, Do you have a post on how you created the calendar?
Hi Erica,
Yes, I do! The calendar tutorial is here: https://jenwoodhouse.com/diy-acrylic-wall-calendar
Hi! Where did you get the arrows under the sign?
Hi Amanda, here’s the (affiliate) link to the arrows: https://paintedfoxhome.com/product/arrow-trio/?ref=101
Where did you buy the pink glass calendar??? And the desk??
Hi Ashleigh! I made both the calendar and the desk. I have tutorials for each one here: https://jenwoodhouse.com/diy-acrylic-wall-calendar and https://jenwoodhouse.com/desk-with-printer-storage. Hope that helps!
Hi Jen,
I recently saw your blog, and I am so glad I did!
I love the set up and the DIY tutorial.
Where did you get the arrows that are hanging on the wall?
Thanks Michie, the arrows are from here: https://paintedfoxhome.com/product/arrow-trio/?ref=101
Where did you get the Phil 3:14 sign?! I love it.
Hi Keelyn,
I had it made by this Etsy seller: http://rstyle.me/n/b6np7mbjmyf
What dimensions are this desk? I am needing to build a desk 37 and 3/4″ wide at the most due to space constraints.
Hi Audrey,
The desk measures 58 1/2″w x 23″d x 29 3/4″h. All of the dimensions are in the building plans (link in post). Hope that helps!
Nicely done! What are the dimensions (length, width & depth) of the desk you built?
Thanks Ryan! All of the dimensions are listed in the plans.
Hi where did you happen to buy the arrows?