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Pegboard Nightstands
by
Shannon Churchill
(IC: blogger)
$250.00
5 Hours
Medium
Home Depot Monthly Gift Challenge Round 3
It's the third round of the Home Depot Monthly Gift Challenge I do with a handful of other insanely talented bloggers. Our mission: pick out an item from Home Depot, put our own unique DIY spin on it and give it as a gift. This month, we chose pegboard to be gifted to any family member.
So, I came up with these fun nightstands for our master bedroom to give as a gift to my husband and myself!
Here's what you'll need (for 2 nightstands):
Using your circular saw, cut two strips out of your plywood 16x96 inches (this gave us room to fine tune our cuts with our table saw).
-With your circular saw, cut the strip into 4 pieces. Cut two pieces 28 inches long and the other two pieces 16 inches long (this gave us a little wiggle room).
-Onto the table saw! Set your blade at a 45 degree angle and your fence to 14 inches (because the mitered cut will add 3/4 of an inch) in order to begin making the sides of the nightstand. Run the top and bottom of each side through the saw. Set these aside for now.
First Groove:
-Run all four of the pieces of wood through the saw. Because we don't have a Dado blade (I'm too cheap to spend $100 dollars on a saw blade to my husband's dismay:), we had to make multiple passes through the saw to create the grooves for the doors to slide in. We ran each side of the nightstands through the saw a total of three times. Each time, we increased the fence the width of the blade (1/16 of an inch).
-Repeat above step for the second groove.
-Measure the inside height of your box and add 1/2 of an inch to keep it in the groove.
*Securing the Stand*
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Published April 20th, 2015 9:41 AM
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