{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","contentId":"00000160-fc67-d725-a568-fe7f1d970002","url":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/how-to-build-your-own-amazon-door-desk","headline":"How to build your own Amazon door desk ","description":"Learn from an original Amazon employee how to turn frugality into furniture. It just takes a few supplies and six simple steps.","datePublished":"2018-01-16T20:15:37.300Z","dateModified":"2018-01-16T20:15:37.300Z","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Amazon Staff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/08549ff/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1125x1125+438+0/resize/84x84!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2F47%2F6d%2F7fe296e642859c7ba2a629eda3ba%2Famazon-logo-hero-images-2024.jpg","width":"84","height":"84"}}],"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/c20c9ca/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1320x660+0+79/resize/1200x600!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2Fba%2F44%2F8dd0ae674c79b69994045de8187a%2Famazon-smile-og.jpeg","width":"1200","height":"600"},"articleBody":"# How to build your own Amazon door desk \n\n*Learn from an original Amazon employee how to turn frugality into furniture. It just takes a few supplies and six simple steps.*\n\n**What you need to get started**\n\n- a solid-core door for the desktop\n\n- four 4x4s to use as legs\n\n- braces to connect the legs to the desktop\n\n- screws\n\n**The basic build**\n\nTips from Nico Lovejoy, Amazon employee number five. [Watch him build a desk](https://blog.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/how-a-door-became-a-desk-and-a-symbol-of-amazon) and tell the story of this classic piece of Amazon frugality.","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"About Amazon","url":"https://www.aboutamazon.com","sameAs":["https://x.com/amazonnews","https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon","https://www.instagram.com/amazonnews"],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://assets.aboutamazon.com/bd/8f/88e7b0314cc2bd05b9de3155a0fe/amazon-news.svg"},"parentOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Amazon","url":"https://www.amazon.com","sameAs":["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3884","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)","https://x.com/Amazon"]}}}