Construct your possess farmhouse console desk for just $fifty with our Diy rookie woodworking options. The double X leg design and style is quick to construct and the desk length can be modified to in good shape your room in the entry or residing room.
If you like a shut storage console, construct this farmhouse Tv set console. Then, see our guidelines for decorating a console desk and get a lot more farmhouse decorating strategies.
My adjustable length console desk is encouraged by this stunning Birch Lane Console Table (no for a longer time available). I enjoy the smooth design and style and X legs.
I transformed a couple issues up from the primary inspiration.
- I made the legs a very little thicker for a chunkier appear
- The length is adjustable — just reduce your boards to the length you want! I chose 66″ for my entry desk.
- The depth is less: I wished a slender desk for the entry corridor, and this works by using just a 2×12 for the shelves to make it quick.
How to Construct a Diy Double X Console Table
by Amy of Hertoolbelt
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This program is a excellent creating program for a rookie as it works by using simple cuts and quick pocket gap joinery. In addition to common protection procedures, exact measuring, and wooden finishing, woodworkers will have to have to know
- how to reduce angled cuts on a miter observed (or miter box)
- how to drill pocket holes (and connect with pocket gap screws) working with a Kreg Jig pocket gap jig (or identical)
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What measurement is the console desk?
The sound wooden farmhouse console stands a normal 30″ high and is twelve 3/4″ deep and 66″ extended — but the length is adjustable! (See below)
Is the console desk length adjustable?
Sure, that is a single of the finest options of this quick Diy farmhouse entry desk! The shelves and best are effortlessly modified to whatever length you’d like, from about 48″ extended (minimum) up to a whole twelve-foot 2×12 board! (or even a 16′ board!)
For an added extended 12′ console, or any console over about 8 ft, I’d advise incorporating a further X leg section or two for assistance.
If you just have to have an quick facet desk, a single X leg base is rather durable with a shorter tabletop, too! Just skip the middle shelf (but you may possibly however want to put in the assistance for additional security).
Is the desk transportable?
Even though this desk is not designed to be transportable, the shelves can be remaining unattached, so indeed, it can be moved effortlessly in quite a few items. It would be a excellent reward desk for a bash or marriage ceremony reception — and our transportable wooden marriage ceremony arch would be a excellent addition, too!
If you’d like to use this Diy wooden console desk for events and will be relocating it routinely, you could check out working with flush mount brackets like this on the X-leg cross items so it takes up less room. I haven’t at any time tried out this but it’s an concept — and that is the finest portion of Diy! 🙂
How to Complete a Double X Wood Farmhouse Console Table
Right after creating the console desk, fill the pocket holes with filler and permit to dry. Sand the legs and shelves until finally sleek, finishing with a hundred and twenty-150 grit sandpaper.
For a darker fashionable farmhouse console desk like the inspiration graphic, spray paint the base black or oil-rubbed bronze (like the faux metal base on this reclaimed wooden espresso desk). Then stain the shelves. For a actually tailor made-searching desk, check out layering an aged grey stain with a further stain (like this Diy fashionable farmhouse console desk).
For a white and wooden two tone farmhouse appear, I first primed the X legs, then painted them white. I utilized pre-stain conditioner to the best and shelves, then stained them with Rustoleum Carrington. You’ll want to defend the stained wooden with a best coat, like polyurethane.
As soon as all of the complete dried, I slid the best and shelves into location and that is it! Done!
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1st posted 07.23.sixteen // Final current 04.03.twenty
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