Barn wood for Floating Desk?
Hi folks,
Hoping someone (or many of you) might have an idea about how to use barn wood for the top of a floating desk? For practice, I made a printer stand yesterday (pics attached) and made some mistakes I learned from, but when I woke up this morning I realized that this won't provide me with a flat surface because all of the boards are different thicknesses and there are gaps between each piece of wood. If I shellac them, would that help? Or can epoxy help to even the desktop out? Any other ideas. I love the look of this and hate to scrap the idea, but maybe I need to just do this on a wall instead??
Thanks for any help you can provide!
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J T
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoBuild Beautiful, you are right about sanding removing the fun, another reason why I was looking for another potential way to do this. Right now, the desk is a laminate kitchen countertop (original to the house I bought), so it really needs an upgrade. The only concern I have with the wall is that the desk/office space is on the landing of a staircase so the wall is partially blocked off (pics attached to make it more clear) so I don't know if I would need to do the whole wall or just partial up to the ledge? The wall is probably 20+ feet tall (it's a 3 story condo).
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