Recently, with the entire world all of a sudden working or learning from home, even more people have been making the desk! I shared this DIY desk tutorial on the blog almost seven years ago, and it has remained very popular. The storage makes this desk perfect for a small workspace!Īfter we moved into our house, we needed a cheap desk as soon as possible, and this beautiful IKEA desk hack for under $60* was born. It’s perfect for a home office, virtual learning, or crafting. I was pretty proud of myself for that little trick.This IKEA hack desk is easy to make with a cheap IKEA desk top and two cube storage shelves. Just hang a file folder at the front and volia! Your mess is concealed! If you have a basket that you want to keep private but you’ve already used all of your fabric bins it’s alright! Here’s a fun tip! Only two of the metal baskets are actually full of files… the third one is a decoy! We have a few books in this basket and they don’t look… quite as pretty as I imagined. Someone else buy them so I can live vicariously through you! I need them for my office!! I’ll use them somewhere, I promise! The hubby’s just lucky we already had these and couldn’t justify buying new ones because I found gorgeous rose gold hanging file folders… and they are amazing. We actually had quite a few hanging file folders from our file cabinets so we didn’t need to buy any new supplies… although I did make sure to put the blue hanging file folders at the front so that they coordinated with the rest of the room. They slide easily back and forth too… just like the tracks of an actual file cabinet! It’s the perfect solution. We chose hanging file folders to keep our files easily accessible… they fit perfectly into the metal baskets so that they stay suspended at the top of the basket. They are sturdy which is important… the fabric cubes are the same size but the sizes would collapse over the weight of the hanging file folders. These metal baskets are the perfect solution for using our cubed bookcase as a file cabinet! In case any of you are thinking of doing something similar we went with metal baskets for four of our spots and fabric cubes for the other four. So we decided to re-locate them to the laundry room and go with a new a different idea. I thought about giving them a bit of a makeover, I’ve seen amazing file cabinet transformations on Pinterest with contact paper and wood… but ours had curved edges and didn’t quite work with anything I tried. We had two old file cabinets that functioned fine but they looked like crap. Looking for a bunch of posts on organization & planning? I’ve got you covered! Click here to see all of my organization & planning posts in one place! Then it was time to tackle the file cabinets. So we brought in two tall white bookcases for all. He had a little short brown bookcase back there that wouldn’t even hold all of his books. The first piece we added were the bookcases behind the hubby’s desk. So we could have left it alone and been completely finished… easy right?īut we wanted form and function so we thought about which pieces we needed to replace so that the room would function just a little bit better. Basically it was allllll set up but with hand-me-downs and all the left over pieces of furniture from the rest of the house. His office was both a huge challenge and the easiest room in the house! We have been working on the hubby’s office one small step at a time.
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