Summertime usually conjures up us to sort out on a challenge or two. George Lehaf, from Makers Finest Pal, took on a small kitchen challenge to make his area really feel new. Comply with alongside as he reveals us, step-by-step how he created this farmhouse dinning desk.
The next directions will stroll you thru creating this lovely, farm-house styled desk with an superior brown-gray stain end!
Reduce Wooden Items for Desk Body and High
We are going to begin by reducing down the wooden items to dimension for assembling the desk body. The chart within the picture reveals the sizes of wooden that every piece of wooden must be minimize right down to. To chop the items of wooden, all you want is a hand round noticed, however you should utilize a miter noticed and a desk noticed as properly when you’ve got them!
Reduce Slots within the Leg Posts
Use a round noticed or desk noticed to chop out three.5” huge slots 1.5” deep in every of the leg posts (Half D) 6” from the underside of the posts. Use a chisel to chop out any wooden left over within the corners and make sure the helps will match snugly afterward.
Connect the Body Items
Connect the leg backside outer slats (Half E) and leg higher facet slates – brief finish (Half H) to the leg posts (Half D) to create the 2 facet items. The underside facet slats ought to match into the underside slots you beforehand minimize. The highest facet slats must be lined up with the highest of the leg posts. Use a mixture of pocket screws and wooden glue or your most popular joinery technique to connect the highest slats. And simply wooden glue for attaching the underside slats into the cut-out slots.
Reduce Slot for Backside Center Assist Slat
Use both a hand round noticed or a desk noticed with a dado blade to chop out the center slots within the facet body items. The center slot must be three.5” huge and 1.5” deep and must be 13” in from every publish.
Connect Heart Slats
Use a mixture of pocket screws and wooden glue (or a joinery technique of your selection) to connect the wooden slats on the highest and backside of the desk. For the highest slats, you may select to both have the slats aligned with the outer or internal fringe of the desk, based mostly on the design you favor. On this construct, I hooked up the highest slats on the internal edge in order that they’d not be seen with the top product. The highest slats must be hooked up flat with the highest of the leg posts. The underside heart slat ought to match snugly into the underside heart slot minimize out within the earlier step.
Connect Desk High Items
Connect the desk prime items (Components B and C) utilizing a mixture of pocket screws and wooden glue. You possibly can select to make use of any joinery technique for this half however make sure that every bit is flat on each side and hooked up in order that the highest of the desk can be flat.
Connect Finish Items to Desk High
After attaching the seven items of wooden to make the width of the desk, connect the 2 finish items (Half A). That is an non-obligatory step to make the desk longer. Simply make sure that as you probably did within the earlier step that the top items are flat on the highest with the remainder of the desk. You should utilize pocket screws and wooden glue as seen right here or a joinery technique of your selecting!
Cowl Pocket Holes
For those who selected to make use of pocket holes for the joinery, make sure that to plug the holes with dowel rods and use a flat pull noticed to make them flush with the wooden!
Paint Base Coat and Stain End Mixture
For the desk prime, add a white wash paint combination as a base coat. Then combine a bottle of half white wash with half Varathane darkish walnut wooden stain and apply this to your entire desk. This offers it an superior mild grey/brown coating as seen within the pictures. For the remainder of the desk helps, simply use the white wash paint to present the desk some good distinction.
Connect the Desk High to the Body
Connect the desk prime to the desk body. Use proper angle brackets so to take away the desk prime if want be sooner or later. Make it possible for the highest sits heart on the body.
Apply A number of Coating of Polycrylic
After all the portray and marking has dried, apply a number of layers of Shellac End and Sealer. For this desk, I used a complete of seven layers. This ensures that the desk received’t take up water over time and can be stain resistant and simple to scrub!
Sand the Desk with Excessive Grit Sandpaper
The ultimate step is to clean out your entire desk with a collection of sandpaper. Begin with a 300-grit paper and work your approach as much as 4000-grit paper and a few ending pads. This can give the desk a glass-like end that can be clean to the contact!
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