Builds
Desk Riser

I built this desk riser for my home office.

The desk riser on the floor

The primary motivations were to get my display up to eye height and my speakers up to ear height, and it succeeded at both!

These days, I have my display mounted to an arm, but the riser is still useful for the speakers.

The desk riser on a desk

I only took one photo during the build, unfortunately. This was my first real woodworking project and I had no idea what I was doing.

The desk riser in progress

I made the cuts and chamfered the edges with a circular saw, which I had never used before, and somehow did an okay job.

A close-up shot showing the hardware joining the pieces and the chamfer

In retrospect, I would have been better off with a hand saw for the main cuts and a router for the chamfer, but I learned a lot!

Materials

  • Basic construction lumber (Maybe Pine? I didn’t know what I was buying at that point)