How To Make A Homemade Lap Desk

3 Cut ventilation slots from the two large pieces of plywood.

How to make a homemade lap desk. Click the link above to learn how to make a laptop stand with PVC pipe. Head over to A Birds Leap to find out how to make your own rustic desk. In a small space opt for a desk with a narrow profile.

Glue with fabric fusion and pin it to keep it in place. But this one is made of an artists board with a cradle. This fun rustic style desk is made with IKEA trestle legs and long wooden boards.

Most lap desks that you see are made with a top that is a flat piece of wood or fiber board. Make these from two pieces of solid wood which are the thickness of your laptop plus 175 inches 44 cm and the length of your laptop plus 15 inches 38 cm. Then remove your pins and add glue to the top edge that wasnt glued down.

This ledge is called the cradle. How to Make a Lap Desk. Fold up the edges like a present and make sure you can pull the fabric onto the top because that will all get covered up by your desk anyway.

Todays video is about How to Make a DIY Lap Desk. For this build prepare your marine plywood black screw wood glue wood putty primer white flat black paint masking tape small paint roller and a few more cheap items. You may use them to get a rough idea of what your desk.

This does not include tools scissors or staple gun. This is the perfect size to accommodate my 17 laptop. It was great seeing her put her new found skills to work.