Coffee table do it yourself

Coffee tables make a part of the coziness in a residential room. They are different: made of glass, from wood, transformers. The main thing is that they fit into the overall interior of the room. You can make a coffee table and do it yourself, so it will come out much cheaper than the storey and exactly how you want.

Round coffee table

The coffee table is not familiar to the rectangular, and the round is one of the most common. It can easily be built independently. You will need materials and tools:

• plywood;
• screws;
• screwdriver:
• hacksaw;
• lobzik;
• level;
• hammer;
• drill with nozzles.

Before making a coffee table, it is necessary to cut down a few parts using a jigsaw and hacksaws on a tree. You must have:

• table legs;
• countertop;
• binding disk;
• planks - 2 pcs.

1. First you need to cut the timber for four parts, so the legs will turn out. The bar need to take a standard 3.05 meter, then the legs will take 0, 76 m.
2. Floor legs and open lacquer. Grinding should be spent three times, because small offices will be strained from under varnish, if you walk the grinding machine just once.
3. From plywood, the thickness of which is 2 cm, cut the disk. It will serve as a link between the legs and the countertop. From the same plywood to cut the planks.
4. Confirmants attach the planks to the legs. They also attach the legs to the disk. Each leg needs to make four attachment points.
5. From the birch plywood to cut the countertop. Its thickness is 3.5 cm. The thickness of the plywood, the magazine is above the price.
6. Attach the worktop to the planks.
7. All items to handle alcohol on alcohol basis.
8. Table open lacquer.

What coffee tables of this type are building with their own hands can be seen in the photo.

Coffee Table Transformer

In small apartments, a coffee table-transformer will look good. To make it independently needed:

1. Choose a mechanism with which the table will be laid out. It happens two types: with gas lift and springs. The last mechanism is equipped with a simple design, and if it breaks, you can repair it at home. Springs when laying the table are not noticeable.
2. Draw a drawing of a coffee table. The virtual world offers many programs where you can graphically portray the future table. If you do not own the skills of using the computer, you can resort to the proven pencil and paper sheet method. If only you before your eyes were a layout on which the size of the table and parts are indicated.
3. Choose suitable material. Experts advise the use of chipboard sheets, the thickness of which is 2.2 cm. Such thickness is precisely able to withstand the mechanism. Next, decide on the color of the material, select to your taste and suitable design.
4. Split the tree into the table details, you can do it yourself or attribute to the nearest workshop. There you can make the shading.
5. Sample all parts to the folding mechanism, you must make sure that the whole design is going.
6. Crerate four boards that will serve as a frame of the table, they are attached to confirmants. If the tree is dark, it is not noticeable pencil labels, you can use a marker that is easy to erase. As a result, you will have a box without a bottom and a lid.
7. Make through holes for fastening the folding mechanism so that the bolts are drowned, treat the holes with the phosner drill and attach the mechanism to the frame. If the connections are noticeable, do not worry, they will then hide with legs. The more bolts, the more reliably the design.
8. The legs need to be made of two boards, which are attached to the corners at right angles to each other.
9. To fasten the legs, you need to make markup for holes on the frame. Drill and connect the legs and framework to metal bushings.
10. Collect the countertop, for this pick up reliable hinges. Then put both parts face to each other, make tags on the sides of the end, where you drill holes for fasteners of hinges. Secure all the details.
11. You must remain a small board, which will serve as a backup for the laid out. It must be attached to the mechanism, and then to the tabletop.

Glass coffee table

The coffee table from the glass fits beautifully in almost any interior. For its manufacture, it is better to use a matte glass that does not remain prints. Also on such a glass there is a protective film, which, when hitting the furniture, will not crumble. Together with the glass, the chrome-plated metal legs look harmoniously, they can be purchased in the store, the height of the legs of about 0.5 m. The width of the glass coffee table must be 0.6 m, and the length of 1.20 m. Shape is strictly rectangular.

1. Make markup before cutting the glass, for this put it on a flat surface, measure and mark the pencil, once again check all the sizes and then proceed to the cutting glass.
2. Dry the glass cutter in vegetable oil, attach a ruler to the markup and pass through the tool. On the glass should be a small excavation.
3. Put the glass on the table so that a piece that you do not need was on the weight. Cold next to the cut slicer with your fingers and press on the piece of glass, you should fill exactly by incision.
4. In the same way, cut off the glass cutter and the rest of the table top. And then you can proceed to the processing of sharp edges.
5. Putting mittens, take a file and walk around the edges of the table top, eliminating the jar and irregularities.
6. Take the Bulgarian and polish all the sides with diamond nozzles. They can remove all sharp ends. Working with a grinder, use the lowest power. You must get rounded edges.
7. Completes the grinding process with sandpaper, it will make the edges safe.
8. Drain the edges of felt, seeming it from the felt circle. It is necessary to firmly press the edges of the countertops with a thin layer. This material will protect the glass. Felt can be replaced with paste for glass processing, it has transparent color. Before it is used, you need to degrease the edges of the table top, after drying the paste is almost not noticeable on the table.

Now you need to attach the legs to the table top:

1. Turn the table top down the face on the floor.
2. Place the places where the legs will be, retreating 8 cm from the sides, and from point to the angle - 13 cm, make the markup to all 4 sides.
3. Drill a hole in the leg at the top of the base, the sucker will be attached there. The same to do with the rest of the legs.
4. Apply joinery and insert them into the hole and press them.
5. Complete legs and glass suckers and press each. You can additionally apply joiner glue, although the suction cups and without it will keep the glass firmly. If you use glue, then you will need it literally a droplet, because a lot will look ugly.
6. Turn the table as it will stand. Pass the rubber hammer at the places of the glass and legs, put the cargo on top. Leave in this position for two days. And then just wipe the table with a rag and you can use. Interesting examples of glass journal tables can be viewed in the photo.

Registration of the coffee table

Decor gives a special unique table. It can be different, it all depends on the imagination and the preferences of the author.

• decorating seashells - such coffee tables look very romantic. Shells are glued to the table, they make a frame from above and covered with glass. The bamboo frameworks are very popular, but experts do not advise them to do themselves, because such tables are not very practical. It is difficult to choose a bamboo of the same thickness, and dust will be assembled in the corners, it is difficult to clean it, and it looks like it is not very aesthetic. In addition, the bamboo is rounded, and such materials are difficult to attach to the glass. Therefore, it is best to take an ordinary plinth, you can pick up in the store on the tone, configuration and size. Blinding to the glass must be glued with silicone glue for aquariums, it is possible to buy it in the pet store;

• the mirror table - will decorate any interior. The mirror decorates the coffee tables from the tree. The base of the table should be processed non-water-based primer. Then to paint it with silver, because it is this paint that is surprisingly harmony with a mirror. But if you paste the table under a certain interior, then choose the tone that you need. After the paint is driving, you can glue the mirror, make it a tabletop or stick on the legs on the legs;

• decoupage - More Recently, decor in the form of decoupage was considered almost a bad taste, but every day this technique develops, more and more pictures appear, and many have already begun to confuse decoupage with artistic painting. First you need to sand the countertop, then align, close the cracks, as in the restoration of the table. Ground with chalk, which to knead the furniture varnish, in the thickness of the primer should be like sour cream. Next, you need to apply a drawing and open with a transparent varnish in several layers. Each layer must dry;

• art painting - for such a decor you need to take only those who have drawing skills. First you need to primitive the basis of the homemade coffee table. Then use any wood painting technique;
• craquelur - after applying paint pattern when it has not yet been dried, covered with a layer of varnish-paint. After drying, it cracks, and the furniture looks like an old one. At the end, the drawing needs to be opened with ordinary varnish, otherwise dust falls into cracks.