How to fix a desk to a wall?

Question

Any ideas on how to make a desk out of plywood (cheap/easy) and fix it to a wall to use as a kids school desk.?

Answer 1

take a board

nail it to wall

Answer 2

We had something like that when I was a kid. Along one wall in our family room we had a 'table', that was hinged to the wall. It had legs that folded up under it so it could fold flat with the wall.

It was edged nicely and had a linoleum top. You can buy a nice table at Office Depot for $49: http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/39... they will probably be on sale, with a lot of other stuff, over Labor Day weekend in September.

Good luck.

Answer 3

shelf brackets, screws, glue, and wood.   Personally I would just buy one...It's easier.  Look around at yard sales.

Answer 4

Is this plywood free? If so, you will need to make two sides and a top, nail the top onto the to sides then using L brackets or shelf brackets, attach to the studs in the wall.

If you will have to buy the plywood for this project, I would definitely suggest looking in the newspaper, on craigslist, garage sales, or a dept. store for a cheap desk.  You can find a desk for under $30 relatively easy and it won't look as makeshift as your plywood desk.

Answer 5

Duct tape and super glue

Answer 6

The desk I am sitting at is a 3/4" plywood pentagon fitted into a corner.  Before it was put in place, 1x4 lumber on edge was screwed and glued to the edge on the side that would be the bottom and the whole thing finished with polyurathane.  It was screwed in place to studs by going sideways through thickness of 1x4, the height giving lots of working space.  The front edge was fitted with legs also made of 1x4, but you could use commercial legs as long as the height was planned first.   My wife has a similar desk, but rectangular, and since it is longer and supported at the back and of 1/2" plywood, a 2" wide piece of the plywood was cut and glued flat to the front edge, making it look thicker and stiffening it.  While the same 1x4 treatment was done on the back, on the open end, the wood was applied to the end so it projected up enough to keep stuff from being pushed off, a 1x2 as a ledger underneath.