Keyboard drawer

So I decided to make a keyboard drawer to increase my work efficiency. Ergonomically speaking this will save me neck and arm strain and increase my efficiency by almost 40%. I kid, but I feel these drawers under the desk actually do help.

I has the option of ordering one online for about $20~$40 dollars for a mediocre drawer and kind of settle with it or learn something new and try and make one. I decided the latter. It took me awhile organizing and understanding what materials to get but I got everything for roughly $30.

The following prices are listed below.
$7 piece of wood
$8 brackets
$5 sliders
$7 nuts/bolts/screws
$2 sand paper
$3 spray coat


At Home Depot you can have your pieces of wood cut for free. Below I am just sanding it down.

Spray on adhesive I used. Kinda didn't do much, and smelt really bad. Maybe I needed to spray more consistently.

Smelt so bad, had to leave it out for like 40 minutes.

Sliders man!

Attached brackets to sliders.

Realized Brackets were faced backwards, fixed it.

Probably the hardest part was drilling these flat screws into an already polished IKEA wood desk. It took and some improv but we were able to get by. The sliders were kind of a pain as well though because the screws attached needed to be flat for the wood body to slide cleanly through the rails.

Finished! Now I have more desk space!