The IKEA Desk Hack never fails! New Office is looking SICK!

IKEA Hack items shown in this video!

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[death-by-ego]

Just a reminder to the kiddos. Home Depot/Lowes is a thing. The reason you hear a lot about sag with these Ikea countertops is that they aren't solid wood. Jay keeps talking about "solid" and "density", but they aren't. They have a thin veneer (strip) of actual wood with most of it being a particleboard core. This doesn't really matter when using it as an actual countertop since its supported completely underneath by cabinets, but as a desk, it is completely unsupported in the middle. And the bigger space in the middle, the more area it has to sag and bend. You can instead get actual solid wood butcherblock countertops from Home Depot for a little more than the particleboard Ikea ones. Depending, you are looking at $50 to $100 more. They will come unfinished, but all you need is some sealer, stain if you want, and a rag to finish it. To put it in perspective, I got an actual walnut butcherblock (same size) for $50 more than Jayz veneer one and add an extra $15 or $20 for some poly to seal it. Finished ones can be cheaper too, but those you typically need to order (and deal with possibly returning and waiting again if it turns out something is wrong with it).

[stephenbeyer]

As a shorter guy myself, I like how you genuinely are concerned about Phil's comfort and ergonomics without being demeaning about it, as so many other people would. It shows you are a good bloke and great boss.

And that space is looking fantastic!

[ceepuck]

The question I want answered is, Can Phil use Jay's sitting desk, as a standing desk???

[mrjacksonk]

You have a 3D printer, model up a circle with screw holes on te outside, matching the legs, screw it into the bottom of the desk and use it as a positive stop type mount. You can still lift the desk off but it won't slide.

[alexk.]

If you don't place the PC for the height-adjustable desks on top of the desks, you could mount them under the tabletop. Advantage: The distance between tabletop and connectors on the back of the PC is constant which means you need less length for the cables and it helps with the cable management. That is what I did with my PC when I bought my height--adjustable desk and never regret it.

[mrnboden]

Love the new office. My own personal thought would be to change out the white outlet covers for a gray that blends in

[CDPowell]

I went with the ultra-budget version of this hack for my desk. I went to a Habitat for Humanity ReStore and purchased two 30" kitchen cabinets and a used 84" x 32" solid-core interior door slab. The drawers are not as wide as the IKEA units but I got a huge working surface with 8 drawers for under $50.

[joemorganti]

Thanks to your home office videos, I made my own IKEA desk hack. Alex drawers, 2 in risers and a kitchen counter top that's been UV sealed from Home Depot. It's super sturdy and it's able to take any abuse I throw at it. I used Scotch Mount Double-Sided 30 lb tape to stick the top to the risers and it holds so freaking well.

[Eric_Fate]

Instead of 3M tape, for stuff that I need to stop slipping that will have a decent amount of weight pressing down on them -- I just get a kneaded rubber eraser from an art supply store for less than $2. Tear it into chunks, roll them into balls, and put them on top of the pressure points. Works great, and easy cleanup if you need to move your pieces around later.

[NIGHTSTALKER]

Love how you take care of your guys. Not everyone knows or cares about ergonomics.

[Kajukota]

If you want a cheap desktop that's still very sturdy and very deep, go with a solid core door from your local hardware store. It will work great with the same drawer set Jay used, or the Ikea Kallax cube storage turned sideways. You can even do a longer kallax cube storage and get an L -shape desk.

Edit: you can also purchase some stick on tile flooring from the same hardware store and use that to cover the desk. Adds a unique look and offers some protection. Mine looks like a concrete slab, which would otherwise be way too heavy of a desk top.

[oxideous]

I also thought my sit/stand desk was a little too high on it's lowest setting, so I installed a custom keyboard tray. Bought some rails from home depot and wood intended for a shelf. It's been perfect, very stable, ridged and gets me space back on the desk.

[JisMortal]

another hack for your desk hack, I highly recommend getting an anti-sag / table stiffener bar for your desk. theyre like ~$15 at a hardware store (v channel bracket?) and will help against sag.

[xorinzor]

Can I just say how nice it is that even though you don't use the metric system; you at least add it to the video.
Very refreshing.

[AlphaMachina]

For my cable management, I actually just got a 2.5" conduit and cut a slot down the length of it, and then used a heat gun to spread the slot open about 1/2". Then I screwed it to the back edge of my desk with the slot facing upwards. All of my cables go into the conduit, and then along the length of it and out the sides. I also used a 1.5" hole saw to drill 3 holes in the bottom of it, one in the middle and two equidistant between the middle and the outside edges for cables to drop out of if needed.

My entire desk is made out of a solid core wooden front door for a house with galvanized steel fence posts and Steeltek fittings for the framing/legs.

Edit: btw, I got the door for $50 at Lowes years ago, and it's an 80x30 oak veneer, so it makes for an absolute beast of a desk that has a beautiful finish. I stained it with black stain, then years later sanded it back a bit and stained it again with vintage aqua. So it's got black in the grain and vintage aqua in the high spots, and it looks incredible.

[joshuadillhunt]

Thank you for this video. After 15 years my current desk is finally falling apart and I've started looking at new desks and haven't seen anything I like. The setup you made here is amazing. I'm stealing it for my own desk.

[flavaflave]

Not crappy content at all. I have loved watching your office come together. It is nice to see your office coming together and it gives me ideas of how to make my office cleaner and better organized. Thanks for including the links to the products you used. I need to order me some of those cable management trays now. You guys are awesome! keep up the vlogs!

[toxxie]

THANK YOU! I'm rebuilding my office and I've been looking for desks... its so frustrating. These look so much better than the prebuilds.

[blackraen]

7:26 My trick for that, Jay, is to get some of that "zip foam" toolbox liner and you can contact-cement it to your table. It provides good resistance to arbitrary movement if you're man-handling your desktop, but at the same time will lift off and reset no problem. Cheaper by the contact surface as well (You can make big pads on the desk's underside for easy/no fuss adjustments).

[pingu]

One cable management hack I like is using guttering as a cable management tray. It's cheap, easy to cut to your preferred length, and you can get it same day from home depot while you're getting the hardware you forgot to order.