Farm house table is complete!
My table is finally done and I can say I did 99.9% of it by myself. Will helped with cutting the 2x12 and the first coat of stain. My hands show a few dings but its worth it. I want to say another thanks to http://knockoffwood.blogspot.com/ it is truly an amazing site and I would never had a table this nice without this site and free plans. I do want to say I added a few extra things to the table plans and I messed a few things up from the plans. Also I spent around $130 start to finish. I wanted to add what I had add in case anyone stumbles onto this blog post building the same thing.
First thing is I am going to add are some triangle brackets. Not in just yet cause I just finally finished the stain and varnish. This table is very very stable and really doesn't "need" these but with an almost two year old that climbs everything I thought more the better. I will also be adding these to the benches since they will be getting moved in and out a lot.
The second thing I added was some little felt sliders. Our floors are not tile and are pretty cheap. The wood is pretty heavy and I didn't want to mess up the floors. I am not ready for that project just yet. You can get these really cheap at almost any store and I used two per 2x6 so they would also be level. You can buy just felt you can just slick to the bottom but I wasn't sure how long that would last so I got the plastic feet that have a nail sticking out so you can secure it to the bottom of the leg.
Lastly is just a picture of the table top. This is probably the part I am most proud of. I spend a lot of time making sure I got the top perfectly level so no plates or dishes anywhere on the table would ever wobble.
One tool I used that was not a recommend tool was a chalk line. I wanted my holes to be perfectly inline and I couldn't have eyeballed it well enough. So that made my job much easier. I also drilled all my boards not skipping the three in the middle and flipping the table. So I have a few extra holes filled in my table but nothing to bad. I went every other 2x2 on the supports up under for drilling the top in. So I don't have all 180 screws seems like skipping every other one is also fine. At the end of the day I was tired and took the easy way out on that one. But there is still over 90 screws in the top so I don't think its going anywhere.
Here is day one with the table.
February 15th, 2010 - 21:55
Oh! How beautiful! We just bought the lumber for this tonight, and will start on the building process early in the morning (Good thing hubby is off tomorrow!). I hope that my table looks as good as yours! I am so worried I’ll mess it up somehow since I’ve never done anything like this before, but I’m excited to begin! Great job! Its beautiful.
February 15th, 2010 - 22:17
Thank you. Mine honestly has a lot of mistakes. But since its a “farm house table” what farm house table would be perfect? Just remember measure twice and don’t cut everything at once just cause you know the size just cut and build as you go. Good luck!