Ikea Hack Home Office DIY

0 By Kim
Ikea Hack Home Office DIY

We had planned to do a home office in our basement for the longest time. And now after this past year my husband has been working from home most of the time so he has finally decided he is sick of working on a cluttered old table he used as a desk. We had two old tables–one for his work space and one for my sewing machine as a makeshift workspace. Not so pretty. See below:

So we researched and discovered a lot of nice looking desk setups using the Ikea Alex cabinets. We came up with a plan. Buy 3 Alex Cabinets and 2 butcherblock counter tops. Two six foot long butcher block counter tops pretty much go from wall to wall in this space so it worked out perfectly to buy 2.

This is the list of products we used for this project:

Butcher Block Countertop

Sandpaper

Pre-stain wood conditioner

Minwax Stain in Dark Walnut

Satin Finish Polyurethene

IKEA Alex Cabinets

This seems like a fairly straight forward project, but it was a little more work than I thought it would be. The butcher block came bare with no finish.

Here is one of the bare butcher blocks, which I sanded lightly with a 180 grit and 200 grit sandpaper.
I used a pre-stain wood conditioner.
This is my can of stain–dark walnut. As you can see, I’ve used this can on other projects 🙈
After staining.
After another coat of stain and 3 coats of polyurethane. I used a satin finish polyurethane. This is what took so long–the wait time between coats of stain and polyurethane.
I painted the back wall a medium gray first to give the area a warmer feel. We put together the Alex cabinets and secured the counter tops to the cabinets with screws. We used a dual monitor stand for a clean look.
The first side done! The monitors and stand
give a nice clean surface area.
The whole thing put together.
I created this for us on Canva and had it printed on canvas. Love how it turned out.

I ordered two 4ft x 4ft rugs to complete the look! We haven’t finished the ceiling yet in our basement so hopefully we will make a decision on that soon. I really like how it turned out, and now I have a place for my sewing machine and all of my sewing stuff.

Our time-lapse of putting together the desk:

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