Four Seat, Childs Pallet Art Desk

When you think about building a substantial furniture piece - like a desk - for your home, you already know youre going to have to be some sort of a woodworker. Youll need heavy wood, power tools, assorted measuring devices, and a friend or two to help. Of course, its all worth it, since youll end up with an impressive piece of furniture, which you can use for years. People who do crafts - mostly women - are often turned off by the thought of all of that physical labor. Although they love to save money, and do most projects themselves, theyll just go out and purchase those big items. But you wont think that way when you find out how easy it is to make a new art desk for a childs room, or even a desk for yourself. When you make a pallet desk, you create an art desk, which can seat up to four kids, or a work desk, which can accommodate yourself and your mate at the same time.

An old wooden pallet makes a large desk, with storage openings, but a pallet is often rough and scarred. Thats okay, though. Sand the pallet nicely and then decide how you want it to look. You can leave it as it is, in an unfinished wood state, or you can paint it for a fresh, colorful look. Paint the whole pallet one color or paint each board of the pallet with a different color.

When you shop at a large home improvement store you have many choices for the legs on the desk. You can purchase legs at the store and theyre made for everything from coffee tables to kitchen tables. Or, you can have a piece of wood cut to the length you need for each leg. The legs dont have to be fancy, they just need to hold the desk up and be sturdy. When you buy the legs, which are already finished, they also come with the hardware needed to attach them. Its easy enough to attach the legs to the bottom of the pallet. Turn the pallet so that the underside is facing upwards. Screw the leg hardware piece to a corner of the pallet, and do that to all four corners, to mount the legs. When theyre in place, the pallet desk is finished. Scoot a chair up to just one long side or set a chair at each of the four sides. With the openings, which are all the way around the pallet, there is plenty of space for storing writing implements, art supplies, and other things. However, there is no solid bottom to the pallet. If you want, slide cut pieces of wood, or even stiff cardboard, in through the sides of the pallet, to make larger shelves for paper, folders, and more.