Thread: Complete - Farmhouse buffet table

Another fan of the natural top on the painted cabinet here, and yours has turned out really well .

Thanks, everyone. Really appreciate the feedback. Next project will be a bit smaller but with some different elements, so looking forward to that.

Some additional reflections ... using different materials in the build (tassie oak, pine, plywood and MDF) was a little frustrating given they all were supposed to be 19mm thick, but weren't. For example, the MDF I used as the core for my bench top sat 1mm or so lower than the tassie oak I used for trim, so I had to be mindful of alignment. But differences like that made other areas of the piece problematic. Using glue and making up the difference in thickness with playing cards was necessary in multiple areas. That reminds me - need to get another pack of playing cards for the house before I'm tempted to steal the kids' Uno cards ...

Oh, and one can never have too many clamps. And glue.

Please show us the dining suite adjacent to the newly made cabinet. Something tells me they are a match, and from what we can see so far, a pretty good one at that.

Originally Posted by John Samuel

Please show us the dining suite adjacent to the newly made cabinet. Something tells me they are a match, and from what we can see so far, a pretty good one at that.

Not quite a match, but certainly similar in theme.

We were given this dining table and chairs a few years ago and they were showing all of their 23yrs of age. I was unemployed for most of 2020 so I used that time to re-finish it and this is what we ended up with. I enjoyed the process so much that I took the plunge to start building pieces myself. Re-finishing this was what triggered my interest in woodworking;

table.jpgtable and chairs.jpg

And here's what I started with (minus the chairs, which I'd already done at this point):

old finish.jpg

I would like to re-do the chairs; I was a little overzealous with the whole distressed-look.

Looks like they work well together to me.

Doubt I'd bother refinishing the chairs. You might notice the difference, but I doubt anyone else would.

Wow, that looks incredible... well done. My only suggestion would be to update the hardware to something more modern. doup.com.au have a huge range and they're in Aus.

Can i ask... how did you fix the top? I'm about to start something similar (either a buffet or bedsides)

I'm also wondering what the total cost of materials came to? (excluding paint, just the wood components)

Thanks Mark - the top was secured using some table top fasteners that I bought here, and I sat them in some routered grooves made with a 6mm straight router bit, then just fastened directly into the underside of the bench. You can see some of the slots just at the inside top of the cabinet here:

raw_cabinet.jpg

With regards to cost of materials, the tassie oak for the bench came in at about $200, and the remainder (plywood, pine and some MDF, plus the fittings) probably $200-$250, so roughly ~$450 all up I'd say.

Originally Posted by Waikikamukau

Thanks Mark - the top was secured using some table top fasteners that I bought here, and I sat them in some routered grooves made with a 6mm straight router bit, then just fastened directly into the underside of the bench. You can see some of the slots just at the inside top of the cabinet here:

raw_cabinet.jpg

With regards to cost of materials, the tassie oak for the bench came in at about $200, and the remainder (plywood, pine and some MDF, plus the fittings) probably $200-$250, so roughly ~$450 all up I'd say.

Thanks again for sharing. Would love to make something like that myself sometime soon.