Modern writing desks, which are presented in furniture stores, look very stylish. However, standing a lot of money is often not strong enough. That's why people who appreciate quality and who want to save on buying new furniture, often look for information about how to make a table for the house on their own. In addition to saving money, this solution allows you to show your creativity in creating design, as well as improve your skills in working with materials and tools. In today's article, we will share simple ways how to make a table with our own hands for a house of various materials. Photos of interesting specimens of homemade tables look below in the article.

How to make a table for writing beautifully and efficiently

The table is such a convenient piece of furniture that it is difficult to find the sphere of human activity where it is not used today. Even within the framework of a modern home, you can see that for comfortable living all family members need to have several different tables. For example, for frequent work with documents and a computer you will definitely need a spacious monolithic desk, and for a rare viewing of magazines or writing letters, a folding small table is perfect.

Materials for the manufacture of table

Most often for the production of modern furniture is used MDF or chipboard. These materials are relatively inexpensive and easy to process, and also have a large number of color solutions. If you are a fan of natural materials and are not constrained in the means, then you can use an array of natural wood. Products from it look very solid and noble (for example, on the Internet there is a lot of information on how to make a table from the spits of trees). In addition to the above materials, glass or polycarbonate can be used to build a desk.

Ideas how to make a glass table is originally shown below in a photo compilation. Suitable materials for the construction of the table on the market are a large number, and they differ not only in appearance and quality, but also in price. Therefore, what material to choose depends only on your taste preferences and budget.

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How to make a desk by yourself - where to start?

A writing desk is a piece of furniture equipped with drawers that is designed for writing and working with documents. Often, written desks are also used for working with a computer. However, in order for the table made by hand to be comfortable and fit in the interior of the room, it is necessary to decide in advance who it will be used, since not only the dimensions and availability of drawers depend on this, but also the appearance as a whole. For example, a desk in a home office should be very spacious and have convenient drawers for folding working papers. At the same time, a compact table with a pair of drawer for notebooks is enough for the child to perform lessons. As for the decorative design, it is better to perform it in the same style as the room in which the table is located.

The design of the desk and the assembly process

If you have not done anything before, you will be able to understand how to make a desk with your own hands the drawings of designs downloaded on the Internet. The simplest desk consists of only four elements: a table top (figure 1), two racks (figure 3) and a cross-piece (number 2), and it can be assembled by almost anyone.

The process of assembling the simplest table design consists of the following steps:

• We select the material for the table in the store and order its cutting according to the drawing
• In the event that you use the existing material, it can be sawn and independently with a jigsaw or hacksaw
• The ends of the cut elements must necessarily be pasted with a special miter band to protect against the destruction of the edges
• Earlier, cut out two racks will act as the legs of our table. In them it is necessary to make drill holes for fastening the cross-beam
• We fasten the rack between the two crossbars with special furniture screws, which are called confirmations
• On the resulting design, the top is laid on the top, and is also screwed with confirmers
• To give an aesthetic appearance, the screws of the screws are sealed with decorative plastic plugs

To create more interesting variants of rectangular desks, you will already need not only certain skills of working with the instrument, but also the presence of fantasy. For example, the photos below show great ideas on how to make loft-style tables.

Read also: Table in the loft style: features, fashionable variations and tricks

Compact desks

For owners of small-sized one-bedroom apartments, it is difficult to place a full-fledged rectangular desk, so furniture designers came up with solutions for this problem:

Folding tables

The advantage of the folding table is its compactness, which is determined by its design: a countertop, fixed at one end to a wall or cabinet, and on the opposite side having folding legs. To understand how to make a folding table, see the photo below.

Transformer Tables

As for the transformer tables, which are also called sliding, this is another way to save space in a small apartment, which helps not only to free space, but also to change one piece of furniture to another. Such tables are relevant in those cases, if you work from time to time and do not want to take up space with a monolithic rectangular table. Do you think how to make a transformer table yourself? Several ideas for building such a table are shown below.

Table-book

Tables of the book have been invented for a long time, but still do not lose their relevance, because compact in appearance design can turn into a large comfortable table.

How to make a book with your own hands? Quite simply! For this we need:

• Laminated chipboard sheet 16 mm thick
• A few wooden blocks for the creation of supports
• Confirmation screws
• Four butterfly loops
• Decorative plastic caps

Particleboard at home without a special tool can not be cut exactly, so it's better to order a sawing in the place where you will buy the material. To create a desk-book, we need three shields 800 × 300 mm, two of which will play the role of legs, as well as three shelves measuring 760 × 220 mm. The assembly of the table begins with the marking of the places of fixing the shelves between the racks (for this it is better to use the building level).

To get the base of the table, with the help of confirmats we will install three shelves between the posts, and from above we will fix the central table-top. Here is the table-book is almost ready, it remains only to hang the folding two countertops, using butterfly loops, and make supports from the wooden beam.

We hope that in this article you have found answers to the question of how to make a table yourself? For your inspiration in the photo below we offer you to see examples of several more models of desks.