DIY 14-Foot Floating Desk with LED Lights & Wire Management

[Music] what's up guys welcome back to the ultimate tech hub on today's episode we finally get to reveal our brand new youtube studio desk remodel so guys on today's video i'm going to show exactly how he built this massive 14 foot floating desk and this also includes the led lights in the back and the wire management under the desk and you'll see all this next on the ultimate tech hub [Music] so guys let me go ahead and show you our original youtube studio setup this room is a combination youtube studio and office for my wife and we've had these two large desks for about 15 years and we found these desks to be too large it makes the youtube studio feel small so we'll need a desk that's not so deep that looks stylish and functional and most importantly inspires creativity so our plan is to build a 14 foot eight inch floating desk with a depth of 29 inches this floating desk will span wall to wall and function as one cohesive desk unit and the plan is to build two tops each top is seven feet four inches it would be very difficult to build a 14 foot eight inch top and very hard to work with so we picked out these beautiful pine boards at our local hardware store and we had them pre-cut to seven feet four inches and we're going to glue three boards together to make one top two boards are 11 inches wide and one of the boards is 7 inches wide which gives us 29 inches and we're going to make two identical tops so i'm going to go ahead and glue two boards together first let it dry and then i'll glue and connect the third board i want to make sure these boards are connected perfectly and i have weights as well to weight down the ends this prevents bowing or warping of the boards [Music] [Music] once i glue all three boards and are dry i can then sand them i'll start with 80 grit sandpaper then 150 grit sandpaper then 220 grit sandpaper and then lastly 320 grit sandpaper these tops will be super smooth and then after sanding i can seal them with an oil based polyurethane between three and four coats so as a way to save time on this video i'm only going to show you how to make the one top since the second top is identical and you may have noticed these two holes at the top of the boards we drilled these two holes near the back of the boards for wire drop management and we did this for both tops and the diameter for these holes are two inches which is plenty of room for multiple wires so we ended up doing four coats of poly for each top with sanding in between coats which will ensure a smooth finish and guys remember hit subscribe to keep this channel alive and also visit my patreon page where two dollars a month helps keep this channel going so after we apply the fourth and final coat of poly it's time to build the frame this top looks fantastic and smooth as butter like i said before we're not going to show you how to build the second top because it's exactly the same as the first top so now we're going to build the frame i have these two by fours pre-cut two boards are cut at nine feet two more boards are cut at five foot eight inches and the smaller cross beams are two foot boards and once again this is the location for the new desk it's time to move some stuff before we install the frame to the wall i want to go ahead and mock up the frame on the floor in the garage and this is kind of how it's gonna look those smaller two foot cross beams will be spaced differently for sure but the length is perfect 14 foot 8 inches so the most important part of this frame is the very first board it needs to have the right height and it has to be level and you want to make sure to use a digital stud finder to find all the studs on the wall when you find a stud simply mark the spot once again double check for level and for the correct height and everything is perfect we're ready to go let's install our first 2x4 i pre-drilled the first two holes for the initial stud installation one more last check for height and level and let's go and install the 2x4 i secured this 2x4 frame with two and a half inch deck screws so at this point simply drill holes at all the stud locations and then attach the deck screws and you may notice in the two by fours there's pocket holes i pre-drilled these first so when i attach the top i'll use glue and pocket hole screws for a perfect fit and very secure and once again check for level to make sure everything is perfect so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so all right so i've got day one got most of the frame done back and sides i've got one cross beam here and i'm gonna do two here the halfway mark coming out here and i'll do one more over here somewhere here and then we can put the front ones on and then we can test fit the top also if you notice i did drill holes here for wire management you have a lot of wires under here that's why the hole is kind of big but it doesn't really won't hurt any of the uh stability it's very stable we'll get a lot of wires through there so day one down at the exact middle of this frame where both tops meet i'm going to put a double 2x4 there for stability i'll add glue for extra strength as well as deck screws [Music] and as usual check for level [Music] [Music] perfect for all the cross beams on this frame i used glue and deck screws to secure it and you can see all these cross beams have two inch holes for wire management and don't forget hit subscribe to keep this channel alive [Music] [Music] [Music] tip [Music] [Music] one more board go there i'm gonna have one more cross beam here go there and maybe one more cross beam over here this side stays pretty solid it feels good but another cross beam here keep this is kind of drooping a little i may have to put a support underneath to keep this from sagging in the middle it's natural it's 14 feet 8 inches it may want to sag in the middle so we'll see but so far so good i'm going to add one more brace right here at the end of this into here to give it a little more strength so it won't sag or anything and this board is very tight when i cut it on the table saw it's really in there good so it's not going anywhere go ahead and screw in the pocket holes and we'll be good to go once again you see i do have holes in all of these for cable management the wires can all go through here nice [Music] do okay guys at this point we decide to build a triangle support for the very middle of the desk the two straight boards are 18 inches and the angle board which is 45 degrees is about 24 inches so once again use some glue and some deck screws for extra strength [Music] so measure and cut your other side to 45 degrees then attach with wood glue and more deck screws so at the location of this support bracket there is no stud in the wall so we're going to use wall anchors i'll use three each wall anchor can support 75 pounds and with three anchors that's 225 pounds of support which is plenty and these anchors are easy to insert and i also pre-drilled the three holes in the bracket but for some reason my camera wasn't [Music] recording okay the bracket is installed and we are level perfect okay now let's go ahead and attach the last framing board this board is five foot eight inches and we are all done with the frame it feels good let's go ahead and test fit the tops make sure they fit i might have to do some sanding on the ends as you can see when i test fitted these tops i hadn't sealed the board yet or put in the wire drop holes and this shot has the wire drop holes in it and this is after sealing the boards a perfect fit now it's time to add the led light kit so before we install the desktops i'm going to install led light strip to run along the entire back of the desk it's gonna be an rgb light strip that can be dimmed different colors patterns and it'll reflect up behind from behind here give it a nice aesthetics so we're gonna install that and i'll run it down here here start here and then work its way all the way around 16 feet this area is about 15 so i'll have a little extra uh maybe run it here on each side a little bit we'll see how that works though okay let's go ahead and install that this led light strip is from utility tech and retails for 49 and this is the 16 feet spool of led wires the remote control lots of colors and the power supply connector and this hardware is to help secure the light strip and the instructions let's go ahead and do a test fit and see if it fits before i secure it and it's going to fit perfectly and since it fits perfectly i'm not even going to secure it with anything it's going to lay flat anyways so i'm going to go ahead and drill a hole through the frame to run the power cord for the led light strip that way it'll be hidden and just simply pull it through the hole and then we'll go ahead and run it down the back of the desk and then we'll plug it in wow looks great that was an easy install this has a lot of cool colors it has flashing patterns it has strobe patterns all right now let's go ahead and install the two tops to the frame we're almost done so to secure these tops i'm going to use glue and pocket hole screws once we have a good layer of glue on the two by fours we can then add the top [Music] it's a good idea to use some weights you want the ends of the bores to lay flat not curved up so you want to place the weights at the corners or any areas where you think it's not flat once you get all the weights placed where you need to use the pocket hole screws to secure the top to the two by fours next pocket hole screws to bring this down and suck the board down to the top make a flush as you secure the top of the board to the two by fours with the pocket hole screws you'll notice the top kind of sucks into the two by four performing a perfect fit and the first top is done all right let this dry for a few hours then it's on to round two so we use the exact same technique with the glue and the pocket hole screws and just a heads up you want to avoid getting glue on the led light strips and guys remember hit subscribe it's free where the two boards meet up at the seam in the middle i put the weights there in the middle to kind of keep it flush and the rest of the weights are in the corners or in the back and once again time for pocket hole screws so so guys this is the finished product we're all done [Applause] this is a massive 14 foot 8 inch floating desk shelf with custom led lights the total cost for this desk including the lights was around 360 dollars now it's time to place the computers on our new desk and of course i want to show you my wire management under the desk [Music] i started off by installing three power surge protectors under the desk this gave me about 18 outlets to plug into and i also utilized the holes in the 2x4 for all the wires like power connectors and ethernet cables as we know wire management is always a work in progress whenever you add remove or modify your pc or desk you're going to make changes to wire management so what i'm showing you right now will probably change in the future but this is a good start everything looks pretty organized could it be better yes but for now it looks good enough well guys we're all done here i want to thank you so much for watching and don't forget to visit my patreon page where two dollars a month helps keep this channel going and for every new member i give a personal shout out in the very next video and guys remember if you like these videos give a thumbs up and share it if you love them hit subscribe to keep this channel alive thank you so much for watching [Music] you