Look in organisation there are many ideas on doing this. I would say just remember toe room. Ikea seems to be the most popular starting place I have been thinking about kitchen units but not sure they are cheaper than units, I was thinking about being able to adjust the height with those plastic things under the unit.

thanks everyone. What I am looking for are ideas or plans where I can make it from scratch with wood from the lumberyard. I don't have any decent thrift shops and any that do have furniture they are either grossly overpriced or really bad condition furniture. I have been looking for pieces now for over a year (not just for this but for other areas of my house) and the people here are extremely proud of their stuff. We went to a secondhand shop a couple of weekends ago and none of the desks/hutches they had were under $800. Plus not a single one would have worked for my space. That is why I'm wanting to make something.

I'll look in the other areas of this forum. I'm not worried about toe room since my plan is for the underneath part to be at least 4-6" smaller than the top-so that I can clip quilts on while basting. So that should automatically give it plenty of toe room. The nearest ikea is hours away so that is not an option and I don't care about it being adjustable. I just want it on casters so I can move it around.

Actually that is another project I'm doing. I'm going to use one of our current kitchen cabinets, which is about 5' x 2', for an ironing table. Then I'll have the doors and drawers of it for storage. We're having a whole new house built and our old house will be demolished so I'm using a lot of what's here that will be salvageable. Unfortunately the cabinets are too tall to be a cutting table because of wanting to have them on wheels and the fact that I'm pretty short. Other than our upper peninsula cabinets, which are way too long, all of our upper cabinets have angled ends so those won't work for it either.

I know I'm spoiled but I really want a separate cutting and ironing area. ;)

For my zip code, the minimum heavy item delivery charge is $349. That is only for the delivery. The order itself has to be at least $200 so that's a minimum $549. I can't afford that. :( We have some wood here from other projects so I wouldn't have to buy all of it new.

I had one made from a kitchen cabinet by my friend. He built a bookcase at the other end. I love having the storage space and having a place to sit to work on applique, that's for sure!

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That is awesome!

Oh wow, that is really nice!! I might look at some of the unfinished cheap cabinets at HD but I think for me, a standard height cabinet will be too tall once I put it on wheels (which probably add 3" or so) and put the top surface on. Plus, if it's on casters it will have to have a solid wood surface between the casters and the cabinets in order to be sturdy enough. So that would add another 3/4" or so.

I made a cutting table from unfinished kitchen cabinets - If you already have a top, you could probably do the project really cheap - I hired a local cabinet company to make one for my quilt shop - it was large enough for two full size cutting boards plus .... including the top, and shelves underneath, and delivery, and it cost less than $600... If you have the top, all you'd need would be the cabinets underneath....... probably not really expensive.....

i got 4 book cases [from big lots, walmart ,the depot ] put one on each end and the other 2 back to back in the center ....found an old desk top ...great cutting table ....nice height .lots of storage ...could use a door for the top $80. plus door