Project DESK - Desk Assembly Timelapse 2.0
4In the QUEST to EXPAND my GAMING POTENTIAL I decided my old corner DESK was not BIG ENOUGH.
Hence, Project DESK.
00:06 - DESK construction begins
00:17 - Cabinet 1 begins construction
00:40 - With apologies to Scotland
02:17 - Cabinet 2 begins construction
02:48 - Legs
03:07 - Taking measurements for the worktop
03:40 - Measure twice, cut once
04:53 - Why did they trust me with power tools
05:37 - A quick cleanup
05:50 - Cam dowels go brrrrr
06:00 - Spacing out the cabinets
06:14 - Nineteen out of twenty
06:50 - If it fits, I sits
07:02 - Sweaty gamer boi changes shirt
07:18 - Building the bigger drawers
08:53 - Building the smaller drawers
09:25 - Final adjustments
10:18 - Finished product & outro
Made with two Ikea ALEX cabinets (grey-turquoise variant) and a large, rough cut of a B&Q worktop surface. It might not appear so at first glance, but the choice to lock the cabinets with the desktop using the supplied Ikea cam dowels made for a very solid build.
This took 5.5 hours to build in the footage you see (with half an hour at a friend's house rough-cutting the rear recess the night before, and another hour the following day adding edging tape to the sides). The footage has been cut down to about 10 minutes for your viewing pleasure.
I wouldn't sell this desk to anyone (a professional with better tools would do a much, much better job), but it was definitely worth the effort - and, more than a year on, is still perfect for my needs.
The cost of the two cabinets and worktop slice is currently £213 (£75 per Ikea cabinet, £63 for a 2.4m-long worktop chunk from B&Q, cut to 1.6m for the desk). The components were a little cheaper in October 2021 when this footage was first recorded.
Music from Epidemic Sound:
Building a Base by Farrell Wooten
Building Character by Sarah, the Illstrumentalist
If You Don't Know by Mica Emory
My Home, My Life by Sight of Wonders
So Much More by Mica Emory
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