Diy Ikea Keyboard Tray. Pre drill 2 holes on a 2 3 radius away from where keyboard tray is mounted. Building a diy keyboard tray keyboard drawer ikea 2.
Which makes a keyboard tray under your working surface important to have body alignment. The space between the two end panels of the desk isn t too long so i ended up purchasing a couple of drawer slides and a white shelf from the local hardware store and mounted it in the already existing holes on the desk sides. Put two more particleboard screws through holes so keyboard is mounted to plywood and desk and plywood is supported where it connects to desk by 8 additional screws.
I like the way that they cables and everything is hidden under the desk but i ran into a lot of problems finding a keyboard tray for the desk because of the cable management outlet on the back.
Supplies needed 20 40 depending on access to wood. The desk lacks depth meaning that if you put the keyboard in front of the monitor the monitor is too close to your eyes. The idea is to install a keyboard tray to the underside of the ikea desk in place of the drawer. The ikea micke desk was just right but there were two problems people have complained about with using this desk for a desktop computer.
