Coffee table is a small luxury product that almost everyone can afford. In principle, without this item can easily do. But, as it is pleasant to afford to relax in the evening after a cup of fragrant drink and a leisurely conversation. In this case, everything should be at hand: cups and saucers, coffee pot and sugar bowl. There is a small coffee table, the price of which depends on the cost of consumables, the brand of the manufacturer and the cost of labor of specialists.
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However, it can be saved to significantly, making such a table with your own hands. And at the same time, you can take into account all personal wishes and needs: you can make a coffee table round, square or triangular. You can vary the width of the table top and the height of the legs. All in your hands!
As for the materials, the most popular coffee tables made of wood or glass. Although, and then it all depends on your imagination and taste: there are tables and plastic, and on a metal basis, and using ceramics. But most often there are exactly the first two options.
The most familiar to most people, the classic coffee tables made of wood. Wood - an environmentally friendly material, "warm" and practical, easy to diverse decorating. To create a simple wooden table coffee, do not have special skills, enough to have an idea about the basics of making furniture. Actually, the coffee table is not much different from an ordinary kitchen or dining room table. Probably the only dimensions. Worktop it is often much smaller surface large analog. The height of the coffee table should be such that, sitting in a chair or ottoman, not straining, you could lend a hand with a cup.
How to make a coffee table made of wood
Advice! Carving out parts blanks, planning to make coffee wooden table, consider the allowances for final processing. By such a length allowance should be about 2.5 cm in width - from 0.6 cm to 1.2 cm, thickness 0.15 cm While today can be enjoyed necessary details required size in carpentry shop at home and implement assembly. .
If you have experience of manufacturing of wooden furniture can make a coffee table with his hands, following the steps shown below. Before that, should buy and prepare all necessary.
Materials and tools
- For marking pencil and tape measure.
- Bar section 9h3,5 cm (12 m).
- Adhesive for working with wood.
- Handsaw and chisel.
- Clamp.
- Sandpaper (large and small) or a sander.
- Lac.
The sequence of work
- Make a drawing (or at least an approximate picture plan) construction of the future application of the table with all the necessary sizes.
- Cut with a hacksaw of beam members 70 cm long (14 pieces) for countertops and a length of 35 cm (4 pieces) for legs.
- Take two pieces of 70 cm, and, departing from the edges on both sides of 5 cm, take a hacksaw and chisel slots for feet 9 cm wide and a depth of 7 cm.
- Spread portion countertop on a flat surface so that the bars are grooved on the second edge.
- Rate engages density bars. If there are significant irregularities, flatten them with sandpaper. Check out how the feet are part of the grooves. These parts must be joined firmly but without too much effort. If necessary, modify the surface of a chisel or sandpaper.
- Treat all adjacent side bars glue, press them together and pull clamps. In this case, follow the correct form of the tabletop. Items should not move relative to each other.
- Let the glue completely dry. After that, remove the clamps.
- Collect the surface of the sandpaper (first coarse-grained, then fine) or grinding machine.
- Apply glue to the ends of the legs and the surface of the grooves.
- Insert the legs into the grooves and stick them after complete drying of the glue.
- Open the surface of the table with lacquer three times, giving a float to each layer.
Advice! Varnish, for applying the first layer, we split the solvent. So he penetrates deeper into the tree.
As can be seen, this option is quite simple. You may be mastering a more complex plan. For those who, at all, the corrupt in this matter, there is also good news. In the manufacture of a coffee table, you can use non-standard materials or ready-made things. Below is an overview of such alternative models and creative ideas.
Creative ideas for making coffee tables
Table of finished boxes. Boxes are combined between themselves with self-draws or nails, pollute and operate with a mourn or varnish. It is advisable to make a frame-based frame for such a table and attach wheels for mobility.
Table of wooden pallets. That's easier does not happen. You can simply polish the pallet and open it with varnish. It is possible, practicality for the sake, to attach wheels to it. You can paint in the color of the wallpaper, etc.
Coffee table glass. Most often, glass makes the tabletop itself, and the base (i.e., the leg) can be from anything. The same pallet or drawer, stump, opened with varnish, metal or plastic pipes, etc. The tabletop is attached to the base with the help of transparent glue, special suckers or bolts designed for glass.
Show fantasy, look around, and perhaps your idea will be no less creative! Dare! All you will succeed!
