Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces
Materials for the desk
A course by Gema Casado Olea , Founder and Director of El Jarro de ideas
About the video: Materials for the desk
Overview
“In this lesson I will explain what materials and tools we will need to build our desk.”
In this video lesson Gema Casado Olea addresses the topic: Materials for the desk, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces. Learn DIY techniques to create a desk and a storage stool from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson we will see the tools and materials needed to build our desk, both the drawer and the legs. For this we need, as a fundamental, the screwdriver. They are easy to get in the market, and you can also do it with a manual screwdriver. It's much harder, it's more difficult, but if you have a screwdriver, you can be able to build the desktop. After, screws, of course. They must be of a sufficient size so that it can penetrate the wood. Remember that ours will be about 2 cm, and has to go through, and they should be long. Of course, bits. I recommend that you buy a game because, dep...”
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Course summary for: Design and Creation of Handmade Workspaces
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Interior Design, Woodworking

Gema Casado Olea
A course by Gema Casado Olea
Gema Casado Olea is an economist by profession and creative by passion. After doing a 180º turn in life, her work involves creating functional and decorative pieces for spaces where energy flows.
Her passion for creating things with her hands led her to found the DIY agency "El Tarro de Ideas", write 3 books about DIY with the Penguin Random House publishing house, in addition to creating and presenting the "Creative Decoration" program on Canal decasa and Más Chic TV (already with 2 seasons broadcast in Spain and Latin America) and finally, founding and decorating the Coworking Handmade Refuge “13 Manos”.
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