IKEA standing desk

Standing desk from IKEA hack.

Boom.  No Ekby brackets or extra shelf used, but I do have some 50 cent brackets and an unused shelf from Home Depot if I decide to add some space.  Perhaps a hanging shelf underneath for pens.

Update: To get my elbows typing at closer to ninety degrees, added some Ekby brackets (fifty cents a piece) with a shelf cut from a board I bought from Home Depot almost a year ago that had been leaning against the wall in the garage.  Screws were random ones in a drawer in the garage and keyboard/mouse were given to me eleven years ago for free.

I roughly sanded the board with 60 grit and then 280 grit and rubbed some coconut oil on it.  I basically put coconut oil on any wood product or human skin I find lying around.

08 August 2016

IKEA hacking is great, except when you don't measure your existing table or don't have the style of computer in the standing desk example you find online.  Taking kids into IKEA without a strictly defined plan is tantamount to disaster.

To find the balance between (among?) Home Depot HDX shelves, Harbor Freight tool chests and IKEA DIY garage remodeling, I plan to next fins some pallets to make another workbench.