A New Work Desk Retrofit

Ashley and Daddy

Ashley and I built a desk together for her room.  She had two wide but shallow closets that were not much use to her.  They are about six feet wide and two feet deep.  The doors are 60 inches exactly.  We noticed that we had a heavy particle board counter top, covered in formica.  She took of the closet doors and commenced to use them for her art work tables.  We used some 2x2's from scrap wood we salvaged from the trash bins in building sites to build a frame to support the desk.

Mamma has a rule of no nail or screw holes in the walls so we had to design something a little tricky to sandwich the framework into the existing space such that it could not move. We did it.  You can see the results in these photos.

The New Addition: A Work Desk for Art and Writing