k956411
28th January 2009, 04:31 PM
I recently posted on here asking for advice on how to make myself a chunky pine table for a small space we had.
We had an oval table which was just that little bit big for the space and my wife was getting really sick of it. She wanted to just go to ikea and get something but i decided it would be much more fun to try making something and i loved the idea of a chunky little table in the space.
its taken me a while what with work, doing a certification at the same time, a new 8 month old son and having to sand and oil the deck too but i have finally got there.
I had pretty much no budget so ended up with 70mm x 35mm construction pine that you can buy for $1.98 a metre:no: and i used 70mm x 70mm for the legs.
as you can imagine the construction pine needed a bit of sanding to start but wasn't as bad as i thought.
Because we have a lot of dark wood in our kitchen dining area my wife decided she liked the light pine colour so i just used a few coats of clear lacquer for the finish.
below i have a few progress shots (which were taken on my phone so not great i'm afraid) showing the lengths of pine i started with, it cut to length, then glued and sanded followed finally by a shot of the finished article (which i used a camera for so is much better than the others). i'm sorry i forgot to take a few in progress shots so this is all i have.
its got the chunky look i wanted and my wife loves the size in the space we have. it also weight a LOT and feels bomb proof
now i just hope i doesn't fall apart in 2 weeks:C
anyway, let me know what you think of my first attempt at something big (but also small).
now all i have to do is something about the god awful chairs!
We had an oval table which was just that little bit big for the space and my wife was getting really sick of it. She wanted to just go to ikea and get something but i decided it would be much more fun to try making something and i loved the idea of a chunky little table in the space.
its taken me a while what with work, doing a certification at the same time, a new 8 month old son and having to sand and oil the deck too but i have finally got there.
I had pretty much no budget so ended up with 70mm x 35mm construction pine that you can buy for $1.98 a metre:no: and i used 70mm x 70mm for the legs.
as you can imagine the construction pine needed a bit of sanding to start but wasn't as bad as i thought.
Because we have a lot of dark wood in our kitchen dining area my wife decided she liked the light pine colour so i just used a few coats of clear lacquer for the finish.
below i have a few progress shots (which were taken on my phone so not great i'm afraid) showing the lengths of pine i started with, it cut to length, then glued and sanded followed finally by a shot of the finished article (which i used a camera for so is much better than the others). i'm sorry i forgot to take a few in progress shots so this is all i have.
its got the chunky look i wanted and my wife loves the size in the space we have. it also weight a LOT and feels bomb proof
now i just hope i doesn't fall apart in 2 weeks:C
anyway, let me know what you think of my first attempt at something big (but also small).
now all i have to do is something about the god awful chairs!