Make room for breakfast, a laptop or a notebook. Explore community-built lap desks and bed tables, then open a shared Easel design to make one like it.
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Lay out a lap desk top in Easel with vent slots, a cup holder, a phone slot and a carry handle, then check the design in 3D.
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Compare complete plywood designs and a slotted top you can add to your own build. Each project explains what the shared file supplies.
Bed Tray with Carrying Handlesby BCNC Custom by Jeanik & AlejandroCarry breakfast to bed on a tray with raised handles and a round recess in the top. Jeanik and Alejandro’s design slots together from plywood and comes apart for storage. Their instructions specify 10 mm plywood and a one-eighth-inch straight bit. The shared workpiece includes the tabletop and interlocking sides. Use the actual sheet thickness when fitting the joints.
A Couch-Sized Lap Deskby Ross GarisonMake a small plywood desk for working on the couch. Ross’s photos show a laptop, mouse and mug sharing the top, with two curved supports underneath. The shared file includes the top and both supports in one workpiece. Fit the slots to your plywood thickness and choose a top size that leaves room for the way you use your laptop.
Bent-Wood Table with a Phone Holderby David Márquez KacicGive a laptop and phone their own places on a wide bent-wood table. David’s photographed version uses pine and Chilean raulí, while the shared design uses maple and walnut presets. Three workpieces provide the underside relief and charger recess, tabletop outline and separate phone supports. Follow the maker’s two-sided carving and bending sequence, and supply a compatible charging module separately.
Slotted Plywood Desktopby Ben EzzellAdd rows of slots to a plywood top for a laptop used in bed. Ben made his top from half-inch Baltic birch plywood. The Easel file supplies the slot pattern, while his linked build video shows the surrounding desk. Make the top outline and legs separately; Ben cut his legs on a band saw.
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Ben Ezzell clamped his lap-desk legs together before cutting their curve on a band saw, then smoothed them on an oscillating spindle sander. The Easel file supplies the ventilation pattern, while this separate shop step makes a matching pair of supports for the desk.
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