I didn’t want to buy two sheets of plywood so I cheated. The cabinet bases are 24” deep but I wanted the desktop to be 26” to hang out over the edge of the cabinet base. To make the desktop I formed the foundation with a 4’ x 8’ sheet of smooth finish plywood purchase at Lowes. The resin top was the part of this project that took more work but the surface turned out so beautiful – it’s white and glossy and smooth and has skinny abstract gold lines running through it. I purchased these IKEA Sektion cabinet bases with the modern Haggeby white doors and drawers, then added these 11” brass pulls to the drawers and these 6” brass pulls to the door fronts. Here’s how I made the resin top window desk… I have a lot more upgrades coming to this room like new light fixtures and furnishings, and I still need to touch up the paint! You can see behind the desk where the DIY window seat used to be in the study – I never finished painting the walls since it was always covered up under there. Years ago, this room was used as the kids’ study and it held their games and toys while they were in elementary school, but now that they’re in junior high and high school the need is for a teen study center and lounge with this new computer desk. I made this desktop by building the foundation with plywood then pouring a custom white glossy top with epoxy resin, and also added a few abstract gold resin stripes to the surface – I love it so much! I share how I did it below.
I featured a bunch of DIY desk project ideas a few weeks ago, and one of my favorite looks is similar, using cabinet bases and a dark wood top, but I wanted a white glossy desktop with a smooth surface so I used resin to create it. I needed a window desk to set up a computer and study space for my teens – my idea was to build a DIY desk using cabinet bases for storage and a custom resin top to provide a long smooth surface. With that in mind, we reached out to eight stylish people who own (and have enthusiastically Instagrammed) these tables, in various shapes, vintage and new, to find out where and why they purchased theirs.I finally finished that back to school DIY desk project I’ve been working on for a month. And what better way to temper it all than with a table that is less of a shout, more of a whisper? By virtue of its see-through design, the clear coffee table essentially acts as a blank canvas, deferring to the decorative whims of its owner. Many people have reacted to the somber mood of this past year by tabling their AirSpace goals, fending off their sadness with cozy clutter, loud hues, chaotic patterns and enough plants to rival the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. But my Instagram skulking also revealed that maximalism played a part in its popularity. It would make sense to blame the minimalist trend for the current ubiquity of this understated coffee table, which has been around in one form or another for years. (Though Irby’s floor was bare, most of the people who own these tables also seem to harbor a penchant for Cold Picnic.) In the ensuing weeks, it seemed like all my feed consisted of were images of the table, in various iterations of glass and acrylic, sitting in the plant-strewn dwellings of other writers, artists, and cool influential-types on Instagram, including a stacked acrylic side table in best-selling author Samantha Irby’s living room. Not long after, I scrolled upon another version, again on a Cold Picnic rug, except this one was just a single shiny slab of acrylic. I made a mental note to look for a similar style - and so did Instagram’s algorithm, apparently. I loved the unadorned, simple look of the coffee table and coincidentally happened to be redecorating my place for the umpteenth time since lockdown.
It was littered with books, a zen garden, and other comforting ephemera that, on account of its glass makeup, all effectively appeared to be floating. The first time I laid eyes on this particular clear coffee table, it was sitting in writer Haley Nahman’s Brooklyn living room, perched atop a Cold Picnic rug. If I scrolled too fast, I might have missed it. Editor Hannah Baxter’s see-through coffee table (and Cold Picnic rug).
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