Last week I made a shelf for the kitchen, and two days later I made a table. All from scraps of wood. Granted, they are not the most remarkable works, but they get the job done. My significant other was very happy with the result, as she was going to pay someone to build some. Now there is place to put some stuff ;)
Here is the finished table:
I started off with a pile of wood scraps that were left over from making the shelf. It was just enough wood, exactly enough to get a short table done. Luckily ;)
I had two boards left that were over 4 feet long. I cut then each in half to make a table that would be 2 feet long, then I screwed them together with two smaller pieces running on each side:
I ended up drilling holes before screwing after I cracked one of the boards that was going into hardwood underneath.
At that point, I had the table top done:
Next I had the legs to add. First I had to cut them. But I didn't have the same pieces of wood for the legs, as you can see here. But as long as they were all the same length, I could make table ;) One piece was long enough to cut in half, so at least I had two legs that were the same hehe:
To get the legs on, I needed some extra brace support underneath to screw them to. So with the little pieces of scrap wood I had left, I drilled holes and screwed them on top of the braces that hold the table-top boards together.
Then I was ready to attach the legs. I drilled a hole into the the top support, and one into the bottom brace, then put two screws into each leg to attack them to the table-top:
Table done!
Here is what it looks like in the corner area of the kitchen, just under then shelf I had made:
It's pretty level, despite me cutting everything by hand and with no level. One problem was with the extra support braces being a little too much inward and not flush with the base brace. When I screwed in two legs, the uneven alignment of the braces made the legs tilt inwards and made the legs less parallel and not perfectly even with each other on the floor.
But anyways, job done, table stable for a toaster and toaster over, and SO happy :)
As you saw the scrap food I had at the beginning to work with, I got the job done. This is all the wood I have left over now:
I can't build anything else for now lol :P
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