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Low-Budget Desk/TV Stand/Workbench

Low-Budget Desk/TV Stand/Workbench
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This is semi-typical of one room living - shared apartments or dorms. Adjectives like cramped, crowded, or cozy come to mind when describing it, but the best that describes mine is painful. WAS painful I should say! There are many "Door Desk" instructables like this, but this one is mine. Enjoy the surprising effectiveness.
 
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Step 1Supplies

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This instructable desk/TV stand/workbench Costs $0 and you need:
1. One large used door or 2 smaller closet doors (which I used) - Find or rip off a closet.
2. Two similar stand-alone items. An old desk and file cabinet, 2 cabinets, a TV stand, bookshelf, imagination is everything! It's best of course to use something that you wouldn't mind damaging the top surface of.
3. A scrap of anything flat to level between your stand-alone items and the bottom of your door(s).


Optional:
1. Build one, requiring lumber, tools and hard work. Why?!
2. Finish surfaces.
3. A tape measure.
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10 comments
Jun 6, 2011. 6:26 AMfwagner1 says:
ghetto stile ...... very good
Feb 17, 2010. 10:12 AMking-afb says:
 Ghetto, but good
Jun 14, 2010. 3:35 PMgeorion says:
dont like the neighborhood ?????????
May 21, 2009. 11:08 AMjdege says:
Just think, with all that open horizontal surface, you can collect three times as much crap before you'll have it stacked as deep as you did before...
Jun 14, 2010. 3:34 PMgeorion says:
Aw ! come on now---------iwas just learning polski and you all go french--no fair !!!!!!!
Aug 1, 2009. 10:07 AMinz.konstruktor says:
CzBowieku, jak mo|na mie taki syf w pokoju?!
Jan 1, 2010. 8:56 AMBluePhenox says:

Are you speaking in Polish?
 

Jan 1, 2010. 11:12 AMinz.konstruktor says:
I speak Polish and do very well. Why do you ask for it?
Jan 10, 2010. 2:32 PMBluePhenox says:
 well because i'm polish to just i don't  speak well.

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