# How to build your own Amazon door desk 

*Learn from an original Amazon employee how to turn frugality into furniture. It just takes a few supplies and six simple steps.*

**What you need to get started**

- a solid-core door for the desktop

- four 4x4s to use as legs

- braces to connect the legs to the desktop

- screws

**The basic build**

Tips 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.