I am in the process of building a new desk for myself. I have already built two drawers that will function as the legs of the desk, and I have the tabletop itself. Now, what would be the best way to attatch the flat tabletop to the flat top of the two drawers,without visible screws?
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Ikea tend to use these widgets whose name you may have temporarily misplaced:
- "Furniture bolts"
- "Cam and pin" fixings
Just because Ikea doesn't stock it doesn't mean you cant do an Ikea hack
I like the enthusiasm, that's great. A couple suggestions:
1. Start off with a solid design, including what sort of materials might work. Let the wood material options drive some of the design which would help to save costs.
Explore the wood section at the depot and see what is offered.
Wood can get expensive. So let the options of wood drive the design.
Break down the pieces into their own distinct unit and determine the best way to connect them. It sounds to me you want a lot in your first project, so break it into pieces and build the breakfast bar first. This way the project wont take weeks to complete. You build the bar, it gets installed and you can work on the other pieces.
Decide the finish, if you plan to paint, the quality of the wood can be less as it will not be seen, however if you plan to stain, the quality needs to be higher. For example a 2x4 can be painted and look great, but try to stain over the ink stamps and its awful.
As for legs, be creative, since you don't have any saws, get a hand saw at least, and be creative. I bought a bunch of 1 inch square 36 inch in length pieces for some furniture pieces I was building. They worked great as the legs and were cheap, and already precut.
Final suggestion is to go slow, as this is your first project take your time, plan accordingly and have fun!
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Another simple variation might be to use dowels to secure the drawer to the top. Of course this only works in the planar directions.
If the top is heavy enough it might work as is. But you can reinforce it by using a very small amount of construction adhesive to just keep them together. Then you can still disassemble with relative ease.