The holiday season is upon us and we were in need of a dining room table. I've been OBSESSED with Pinterest pictures of amazing reclaimed wood, and barn door tables and finally this week my better half decided he would make me one (I'm a lucky girl)! Joe had actually been scouting the wood for a while at abandoned barns near where we live. If you're looking to make this kind of table and don't conveniently have an abandoned barn nearby, you can always check on Craigslist or Freecycle, sometimes you can luck out with some really great wood people are looking to get rid of. Anyway! Even though this is a pretty large piece of furniture it was one of the easier tasks we've taken on recently, the most time consuming part was when Joe had to sand the boards, and while we waited for the stain and poly to dry. Besides that I think it turned out pretty awesome!
Start by measuring and cutting the boards to be the length and width you want. Make sure to leave two boards to go across the bottom of the table to secure each panel, we used two screws for each section of board, for a total of 10 on each bottom piece.
After you've sanded away all the dirt and uneven patches you can start applying stain.
Our planks are actually different kinds of wood, so we used a natural stain to bring out the unique color and grains in each one.
Once you've let it dry, you can apply another coat of stain or start with the poly.
We chose to do one coat of stain, then we began to poly. We ended up using 3 coats of poly to seal the table in case of spills. We lightly sanded in between each coat.
Off to Home Depot! We used plumbing pipes for the base of our table, you can go to your local home improvement store with the measurements you need and they can cut and thread the pipe for you - for free!
Organizing everything we picked up!
Start by putting together two 10" pieces with a 1 x 1 x 3/4" tee, making both ends of the table base.
At the end of that add the 1" tees and then the 14.24" and 11" pipe pieces to either side.
Just making sure it's all sturdy!
We wanted the black pipes to match the tees so we grabbed some Rust-Oleum Spray Paint!
Time to paint.
Lookin' pretty good
Once it dried we could secure the legs to the table!
These were the screws we used
and voila!
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