Desk Complete.

The desk is officially complete and installed. I am very happy with how it turned out.

The total cost of the desk was around $850 in materials including the glass top. To build this desk from Pottery Barn it would have cost roughly $2800. Pretty good savings for a couple months worth of work.

-Jason

Painting, I am so over painting.

It has taken a couple of weeks but the bookshelves are almost complete. I started painting them a couple of days ago and I finished the bulk of the painting tonight. Tomorrow, I have to cut and paint the backs of the bookshelves but other than that they are complete. I took a pattern to the glass shop on Friday so I should have the final pieces of glass the middle of next week and we can install these beauties to finish off the room. These bookshelves are basically twice the width of the other cabinets, but they seemed a lot larger every time I went to paint them.

-Jason

Fabrication Complete

I had time to finish the construction of the bookshelves this weekend. I started by adding the trim to the top and bottom of the cabinets I completed the other day.

I then added the trim to the bottom of the desktop, this will keep the desktop centered on the bookshelves.

The remaining components completed. The two bookshelves, their desktops, the final desktop for the already completed cabinets and the connecting pieces to tie all of the components together. I will be sanding and wood filling for the next couple of days, hopefully I will be painting in the next couple of days.

-Jason

Bookshelves

I started on the on bookshelves that will finish the desk unit. Sunday I cut the plywood into the blank pieces for the bookshelves and desktop units and glued the desktop pieces together.

Over the last couple of nights I cut the pieces to final size, cut grooves for the back piece, and glued the basic bookshelves together.

Over the next couple of days I will build the foot and top of the bookshelves, hopefully I will start painting sometime this weekend.

-Jason

Desk Installed

Well the first section of the desk is installed. I am very happy with it, I think it turned out amazing. Going to start on the bookshelves soon. I will post pictures of the progress.

Preview

Finished up a couple more items on the desk including the drawers and getting glass cut. Looks like we will be installing the desk this weekend.

-Jason

New Desk

Kat has wanted a new desk for a long time. She has never really been happy with her setup in the studio. She did some looking around and was interested in this desk from pottery barn http://www.potterybarn.com/products/build-your-own-bedford-home-office-system-components/ . It is a pretty cool system basically there are various cabinet configurations but all have the same outside dimensions. that you can configure in a corner with a corner desktop. Hmm, thousand dollars to put a desk around the studio, I can build something like this for much cheaper. So I have been working on it for the past several weeks.

I started by designing out the cuts using google sketchup, it's not perfect but it works. After figuring out how much wood I would need for three cabinets and a corner desktop I picked up the plywood and started making sawdust. It didn't take too long to get everything cut and glued together, I had everything put together in the first week.

I have been slowly finishing the cabinets over the past couple of weeks and I am down to finishing the drawers.

Cabinet with 2 smaller drawers and file drawer. Each cabinet will have a 23 x 23 desktop like the one shown above.

Two more cabinets completed, one with two file drawers and another with shelves on the right and two vertical slots for Kat to put wet paintings in to dry.

Finished corner desktop, the desktop will have one leg in the back corner and will attach to two cabinets to support the front.

Drawers and more drawers, getting close to finishing.

As you can see the first set is almost complete, I need to get glass cut for the desktops and put a couple coats of paint on the drawers. We should be setting the desk up shortly. I plan on making two more cabinets but they will be bookshelves and will be twice as wide as the other cabinets.

-Jason

Still Here

Wow, it has been a long long time. What has happened in the last two years? Lots!

Let's see 2009 was a bit of a blur, I traveled a lot. I spent the first three months traveling back and forth between Florida and Omaha for work. After all of that fun I spent a couple of months in Amman, Jordan also for work. I did get to see some cool stuff, Petra, Dead Sea, Camel in the back of a really small truck, and many more things. 2009 was a bit stressful, with all the travel I ended up gaining some weight, booo.

2010 has been a lot less stressful. I started doing ceramics again, it has been a lot of fun and very relaxing. I also haven't had to travel as much this year which is a bonus but the one trip was across the world to India. I spent three weeks in India for work, it was very cool. The food was amazing. 2010 has been the year of projects. Kat and I completely redecorated the upstairs adding a workout room. I started working out late last year after all the travel was completed and now we are working out at home. I have dropped close to 40 pounds first going to the gym and then completing p90x at home with Kat.

Well that is not very much detail for the past two years but it is he major highlights. I will post some pictures of all the adventures later.

-Jason