How to make a coffee table with your own hands?

An alternative option to purchase furniture is the ability to create it yourself from scrap materials. You can make an original coffee table with your own hands in a couple of hours. The process is simple and fascinating, even for a beginner. Requires initial skills in carpentry tools, ingenuity and a certain amount of aesthetic intuition.

The coffee table exists in an innumerable number of varieties.

The advantages of creating home furniture yourself:

• minimum financial costs;
• exclusive model;
• individual convenience.
  

  It is easy to make: drawings, if required, are not at all complicated.

You can put a sample created by yourself in the living room, bedroom or children's room. Products created by yourself look great in city apartments and country cottages, delighting the hosts and guests with their uniqueness and style.

A coffee table in the interior is like a business suit for a man or makeup for a lady.

What may be needed for work

What kind of necessary materials will be useful depends on the basis of the collected item. To make a coffee table with your own hands, you will need a variety of auxiliary things.

The appearance of the table is given primarily by the decor, so it would be appropriate to start from the end: from the decoration and decoration.

It will be difficult to build an accurate and durable table design without glue, varnish and sandpaper. Resistant paint is also useful - choose convenient sprays, you can quickly and without soiling cover the entire surface of the tabletop. To cover the base and supports may need high-quality primer. You can buy it at the hardware store. Do not forget the materials for decoration - fabrics of various textures and density, lace, colored plastic or glass, etc.

It will not be difficult to choose a structure from ready-made ones or to develop one’s own one: the loads on the object are small, and suddenly a flaw has come out, it is easy to redo or redo.

It will not be superfluous to have auxiliary material - ordinary newspapers, a large piece of cardboard, a plastic sheet, so that the "production" waste is not carried around the room.

The cost of labor and money - nothing at all.

To build the conceived model you need to prepare the necessary tools.

First of all it is a hammer, scissors, pliers. You will need different fasteners, furniture nails (regular and riveting) or screws of different sizes.

It is possible to decorate a little table in the different ways, see fig.

For a quick cut of pieces of wood, you need a hacksaw.If there is a carpentry table, and you have the skills of such work, the presence of a chisel, cutter and planer will be a plus to process the wooden base with professional precision. For decorating items need a sharp cutter or a set of woodworking knives.

With the help of the most common wallpaper, you can quickly and inexpensively ennoble the most ancient shabby table, if only it was strong.

What will be the coffee table - it's up to you. Next, we determine the design and construction.

Coffee table do it yourself from pallets

To quickly make beautiful furniture, often take the basis of the tree. It can be made from ordinary pallet. One product without gaps and four wooden supports is enough to create a beautiful table on your own.

1. We make the original pallet table with a markup.
2. Having decided on the sizes and having made all the necessary marks, we cut out the middle of the pallet: the flat surface should be from the front side, the relief one - with symmetrically arranged bars - from the bottom.
3. Selected for work legs (better carved), treat with a primer and let them dry.
4. At this time, engage in tinted worktop top and sides.
5. When all the elements dry out, you can proceed to their consolidation. Use nails (or screws) and hardware to join.

Each layer, except the finishing one, is polished after drying, but the skin needs a velvet skin, which you will not always find on sale.

Coffee table do it yourself from the radiator

Such models look good, if they are low. An interesting coffee table can be made from an already unnecessary central heating radiator. To do this, it is necessary to paint evenly. Instead of a tabletop, you can take glass or a wide board in size.

From the rest of the sea you can bring a pile of empty seashells and sea pebbles.

For mobility wheels from an old baby carriage are often used. The construction of a furniture masterpiece will take a minimum of time and money.

Coffee table do it yourself from the window and books

Outdated window you can find a new use - use it to create a table with your own hands. If necessary, sand the frames and cover them with paint. As supports you can use not only wooden legs (bars), but also old books that do not fit on the shelves.

If you changed the houses to ordinary metal-plastic windows, you can make an interesting coffee table from one old window.

A coffee table will be comfortable in the country if you spend a lot of time there. On the glass of such an original table top you can apply a drawing or a thin layer of matting paint.

Coffee table from the front door

 Unnecessary entrance door can also serve as the basis for your table. To do this, take its central part, and the rest go to the support side, because the coffee table will not be very high. For greater stability, you can make the bottom shelf of chipboard.

Well, if you replaced the entrance or interior doors, use the old door as the material for the new table.

The surface of the product - countertops and supports - cover tinted. It will look good matte varnish.

Often outdated doors have a relief zoning, when using the table it is convenient, because you can safely put a tray with dishes, without fear that it will slip.

Table of old furniture - cabinet or drawers from the chest

Sometimes it is a pity to throw out good pieces of furniture that have gone out of fashion. They can serve as the basis for new products. Smooth sash from the cabinet, especially if they are lacquered - a great preparation. Also useful legs - straight or carved, if the product is planned to be made low. You can use two doors, connecting them cut off parts from the side panels of the cabinet. This option requires very little time and is practically free.

Wooden boxes of fruit, vegetables or other items - versatile material for creating furniture with their own hands.

Drawer drawers are suitable for a composite or solid table. The adjustment is carried out by cutting the protruding parts. The assembled tabletop is installed on any supports - for example, elements of the same dresser, bars, treated with primer, books, etc.

Handmade stump table

Unusual coffee table is obtained from a single piece of wood - the stump left from sawed pine, birch or poplar. It should be wide enough and smooth, with beautiful rings. Depending on the height of the stump, you can choose from the following:

• with a low top on thin metal legs;
• medium height without supports (support is the base of the stump);
• low table on wheels.

Polished stump or log can be put directly on the floor or attach the wheels.

If desired, you can leave the natural look of the stump - with bark (leaving as it is or covered with varnish) or paint it in any color, after removing the bark. The best looking white and beige tones.

Suitcase for travel lovers

 It is possible to use vintage bulk suitcases as a table top. This original hand-made coffee table will appeal to romantic people who like to spend time often in educational journeys.

In our time, coffee tables got rid, finally, of the Pharisaism of the owners.

The basis is an old suitcase, preferably from thin wooden planes. Leave the locks in place, they serve as fasteners. You can also leave the straps. Suitcase can be toned or left in its natural form, depending on the state of the surface. For the legs, you can use both wooden blocks (or carved furniture supports) and wheels.

This kind of furniture is made of a wide variety of materials: wood, glass, steel, aluminum, plastic, chipboard and plywood.

For greater resistance to moisture, the surface can be varnished. Fasteners here can make both bolts and hardware. You can drill holes for the legs in the bottom of the suitcase and fix them with iron rims with gaskets.

Rumco tabletops made of solid wood or glued furniture board should be machined with a router to give it a beautiful shape, and then sand it with sandpaper.

A table of logs for lovers of nature

Wood is a material that can be easily processed. Sandwich half a wide log and thinner logs. The bark on the sides and bottom of the tabletop can be left or removed. For fasteners use nails and corners of metal. Instead of legs from logs, you can take metal or legs from old furniture.

It seems that this coffee table is completely made of birch logs, but it is not.

Making an exclusive coffee table made of wood is quite simple. Regular logs will serve both as a base and as supports.

 Coils, as the basis of the product

A coffee table made of a large cable reel looks very interesting. First, the round shape looks harmonious. Secondly, it can be made rotating. Thirdly, the lateral cavity can be used for a variety of objects - magazines, books, stationery, disks, and additional appliances for dishes (if they are not needed on the table during tea drinking).

Large coils from industrial cable - a rare, but ideal preparation for coffee tables.

It will serve as a tabletop from the side flat sides.

The coffee table can be made with or without supports, simply by putting the coil on its side. As a torque element, you can use the disc "Health".

Cavities on the side look more interesting if they are zoned symmetrically with the help of wooden boards, fixed with glue.

Making a glass table

Coffee table with his own hands made of glass is very simple to manufacture. As a table top, ordinary thick glass is used (square, rectangular, round), preferably tempered, since the material is quite fragile and may crack due to impact or temperature drops.

Glass - you can only use tempered, otherwise the reliability of the table will be in doubt.

 Coffee table can rest on wooden carved legs with a wide base, books, hemp and other elements. It is desirable to make for him and the central support. The elements are fixed on special resistant glue.

The final stage - decorating

In decorating the sample, made by hand, apply a variety of ideas. Smooth surfaces hold the pattern or ornament around the perimeter well, and non-uniform in texture - applications and other elements.

• The table top of the pallet, logs, stump looks good if it has carved. A glass can be lined from pieces that make up a whole picture (for example, a chessboard) and fastened with a resistant glue.
• A hand-made coffee table will benefit from embossed elements. The thread can be applied on the side wooden parts, corners, on the front part. The material with which you can toned part of the thread - paint or varnish.
• Alternatively, in the decoration, you can use a fabric with a small pile, upholstering its sides. Ideal material from the old coat, which you no longer wear. For fasteners, use small nails, rivets or glue the fabric strips.
• It is possible to decorate a table with lace or ribbon with fringe (tassels), having upholstered them with a base along the entire perimeter. This finish will mimic the tablecloth. It goes well with knitted lace napkins in pastoral style.
• The front side of the sample looks unusual, if you stick on it a rough cloth like a mat.
• An excellent finishing material can serve as a string, coarse hemp rope. They can decorate both legs and tabletop. To decorate the supports, apply glue on them and wrap them with twine, trying to lay it very tightly to the previous ring of rope.
• With the help of glue, colored plastic or artificial glass, you can make an unusual mosaic decor. Glue or varnish with a rich color can be used for craquelure.
• If there are unnecessary metal corners without holes, you can also use them as a designer finish. Covers from the corners are suitable for joints of wooden products of brutal appearance. Fix the corners with glue.
  

  The coffee table is the decoration of the living room, and it means that it should be beautiful, elegant or unusual depending on the style, but in any case it should be made qualitatively.

  

  The pallet can be painted or left in its natural form, mounted on wheels or small legs, the tabletop can be made of glass or plywood.

And some more useful tips.

In the manufacture of the table with their own hands, you can apply additional decorative inserts. If you use a cable reel as a basis, it often has a central hole. You can put a high vase with dry plants or flowers in it.

The material you choose to decorate must be abrasion resistant. The exceptions are elements designed to create the impression of vintage products.

The main thing here is the exact observance of the proportions indicated in the drawing.

Tinting paint can also act as a decorative design. You can create patterned surfaces, give natural stains on wooden surfaces, shade parts of the elements, creating the most advantageous look to your product.

If the coffee table is unstable, then objects can slide off of it, so you need to carefully adjust all the supports in height. Embossing can also be used as an anti-skid measure.

The finished product is treated with stain, dyed, opened with varnish or “aged” - at will.

For the manufacture of such models are used completely different materials - fantasy will not let you limit your ideas. Try, invent options items of furniture, from this it will look not only stylish, but completely new.

Wood - the material is the easiest to process and the most malleable.

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