Diy Ikea research station (with create in desk!)

I needed to share an update that we created to our Ikea Homework Station.   My spouse crafted it a handful of several years ago and it is been just one of the most-used areas in our property, apart from the Do it yourself murphy bed that he & my dad designed.  

The young ones use this Diy Research Station consistently.  I use it, as well.  I appreciate to sit there to do my function, verify emails, etc… 

I knew that I needed a research station, but I could not figure out wherever to place it.  There was not truly wall-house in our kitchen area and I didn’t want it in the residing area.   I determined to put it in our living room. 

I had a very little place versus the wall, in the corner of the room, the place we made the decision to put it and it has been best.   It is a built-in desk and I really like it.   Below, I’ll share the instructions to make the desk, the products we employed, the components, and a couple of affiliate backlinks that I could find on-line. 

How we built our Research Station from Ikea Furniture:

First, we purchased two of these Linnmon white Ikea table tops for $6 every single.   My spouse reduce one of them in 50 % because with each other they were way too lengthy.    

He then works by using brackets to hold the desk with each other (he bolstered it by employing three of them).    

He screwed two items of wooden to the wall to generate a ledger.   This is what the table sits on.    You can then nail the tabletop to the ledger (nail it on an angle)

We acquired the buckets and dial rod at Ikea, as perfectly.    The buckets were being $7 just about every (Fintorp Flatware Caddy).  The Fintorp Rail was  $9.    The whole for these is proper all over $37.  (They have plastic ones for 99 cents, but I genuinely liked these types!)

We loaded them with every little thing that they would require to do their research.  Pencils, crayons, scissors, glue sticks, erasers, highlighters, and markers.

I acquired this tiny black organizer at House Items on clearance for $7.00 and I use it to hold their research.   We always know the place it is (absent from any food stuff or h2o that could get to it and destroy it, given that they just cannot eat in this home).  You can produce on it with chalk, also.


I utilised to use InGolf Chairs that were being $49.99 just about every from Ikea with Malida chair cushions that had been $4.99 each.  Now I have Parson’s Chairs from Kirklands (they are just extra relaxed).  They are comparable to these chairs, whilst I want I had seen these chairs quicker (so pretty)! 🙂 

We located the close desk at Hobby Lobby and my husband slash the legs off of it, to make it the appropriate height to hold the desktop.

I love it since I use it to keep all of their university provides!   I use the drawers to retain leveled books, text guides, and workbooks. 

I also retain a drawer with construction paper:

You get the idea…

Which is definitely all that there is to it.  It performs properly for what we need!

We even extra a shelf (also acquired at Ikea) and light-weight to give us a lot more storage.  I additional a small cork board, far too, for our youngsters to hang things or add vital notes. 

I love having the light mainly because if the youngsters are doing their perform in the evenings, it helps make it vivid and uncomplicated for them to use. 

It’s worked out so nicely – the complete homework station.

The kids come household suitable soon after college and take their backpacks into that space to “unload” their do the job.  They then bring their lunch bins into the kitchen and fall their vacant back-packs off at our Do-it-yourself mudroom bench that my partner designed.

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