How to make a table with your own hands reliable and beautiful
Only professional carpenters can create high-quality pieces of furniture, and even then with the proper qualifications and a set of very expensive specialized tools. In this publication, we will debunk this myth and tell you how to make a table with your own hands from the most common materials using a tool that is in the arsenal of any home craftsman.
Advantages and disadvantages of a homemade table
Do not forget about the disadvantages of homemade furniture, namely:
- Risk of injury. A cutting tool is used to work with wood and its derivatives, careless handling of which can cause serious injury.
- Time wasted. In the presence of a specialized tool, it takes a professional 1-2 days to create a table. It will take up to 10 days for a home craftsman to make a simple outdoor table with his own hands, taking into account the stages of varnishing or painting.
As a disadvantage of homemade furniture, many professionals note the poor quality of the resulting product. Here you can argue, because the main thing for obtaining a quality product is knowledge of technology, correct calculations, diligence and accuracy, which will certainly give positive results.
Tools and materials
To assemble a table from boards with your own hands, you will need a standard set of carpentry tools, which includes:
- A hacksaw for wood. The presence of a hand-held circular saw and a jigsaw will significantly speed up the assembly process.
- An electric drill with a set drilled in wood.
- Screwdriver with bits and a set of nozzles. This toolkit can be easily replaced with conventional screwdrivers (straight and curly), box and open-end wrenches.
- A sander, which, due to the lack of one, can be replaced by an ordinary bar and sandpaper.
- Hammer, carpenter's knife, tape measure.
For the assembly of a wooden table structure, it is preferable to use dry curved edged boards made of natural wood.
This material is relatively inexpensive, decorative, environmentally friendly, available for purchase at any hardware store and is easy to process.
When assembling the finished product, it is necessary to provide for the presence of wood screws, dowels, PVA glue. In addition, furniture bolts, nuts and washers may be required. It is also desirable to have clamps that will fix the blanks during the gluing process.
DIY wooden table for the veranda
There are many options for tables that are suitable for installation on the veranda.
- If you intend to use this piece of furniture for family meals, then you can make a spacious dining table from solid wood.
- If the veranda is used mainly for relaxation, then you can assemble a small coffee table with a round table top with your own hands.
Dinner table
We make a dining table with our own hands out of wood: you can take the drawings from the Internet or make a simple sketch with your own dimensions based on the photos below:
- Preparing the material. For the frame you will need boards (LxWxT): 2 pcs. 800x100x25 mm; 2 pcs. 450x100x25. Bar 9 pcs. 600x40x40 mm. For the table top, 6 boards are required. 800x100x25 mm. For the legs, you need to prepare 4 boards 750x100x25.
- We collect the legs. How to make table legs? Very simple, as they are part of the framework. From two boards 750x100x25 and a bar, we assemble a support module. We make markings on the leg: we retreat 30 mm from the top edge and from the side of the board. We fasten the bar, as shown in the figure. We repeat the operation for the second pair of legs.
- We assemble the frame by screwing the blanks 800x100x25 mm with self-tapping screws, as shown in the figure.
- At the ends of the frame, we attach 2 boards 450x100x25 mm.
- We measure 25 mm from the upper edge of the side boards of the frame, fasten the bar blanks from the inside of the table. These elements will keep the tabletop from deformation.
- We make a tabletop of boards with our own hands, placing them tightly in the prepared place and fixing each element with self-tapping screws to the bars on the inside of the table. It remains only to carefully grind the resulting product and cover it with water-based varnish several times.
You should know that this technology is also suitable for the manufacture of sturdy and stylish benches, which will be an excellent addition to such a table.
Round coffee table - video
Diy table with benches
To make such a wonderful country table, you do not need a lot of time and material. All elements are made of wood. Fixing strength is provided by furniture bolts.
Manufacturing steps:
- We collect the tabletop. For assembly you need a board (LxWxT): 4 pcs. 1200x150x50 mm; 2 blanks 600x150x50 with a cut angle at 45 °. We lay the boards of the countertop tightly to each other, retreat from the edge of 100 mm and fix them with a blank. Repeat the operation on the other side of the tabletop.
- Assembling the support structure. To assemble the table legs, you will need dry boards (LxWxT): 4 pieces - 950x150x50. We prepare blanks, cut corners (30-35 °). We retreat from each edge of the tabletop 150 mm. We fasten the legs by means of a bolt connection. The distance between the legs at the bottom edge is 1300 mm.
- We fix the base for the benches. You will need a board 1400x150x50 mm - 2 pcs. We fasten them with bolts in the center of the legs, as shown in the figure. For stability, the structural elements should be connected (in the figure, this is a blue colored board).
- We install benches. To make a table for the dacha with your own hands, you need to properly install the benches. For their manufacture, according to tradition, we use a 1200x150x50 board.
To save material, you can use two smaller boards. Fastening to the supporting structure is made with self-tapping screws. Now the product needs to be sanded, treated with an antiseptic, painted with any facade paint on wood.
Table transformer
Do-it-yourself folding tables made of wood are much more difficult to make than stationary products. Due to the transformation mechanism provided in the design, such models significantly save free space, which is so lacking in our homes. That is why folding models are worthy of self-production. Next, we will consider how to assemble a table in the kitchen, which, when folded, performs the function bar counter, and when unfolded it becomes a fully functional object for family feasts.
Cooking material
To assemble the structure, you will need:
- legs - wooden beam 4 pcs. size 800x45x45 mm;
- frame - timber 2 pcs. 810x45x45 mm and 2 pcs. 210x45x45 mm;
- shelves - timber 4 pcs. Size - 900x20x20 mm;
- lathing of shelves - timber, 32 blanks 210x20x20 mm;
- leg-stand - timber 2 pcs. 755x45x45 mm; 1 PC. 810x45x45 mm; 720x45x45 mm.
- table top - 2 boards 2000x300x35 mm.
In addition, you need to purchase 6 pcs.hinges (door can be used), self-tapping screws, PVA glue.
Assembling an adjustable table with your own hands
According to the drawing below, we assemble the frame.
We collect shelves. Based on the design, they need to be assembled 2 pieces. We fix the lathing bars with self-tapping screws.
We install the shelves in their regular places according to the drawing.
Using self-tapping screws, we assemble the support leg-stand.
We attach the supporting leg to the frame with three loops.
We make a folding tabletop. To do this, you need to fold the boards on top of each other, align along the long side, fasten together with three loops.
And the last thing, it remains to fix the tabletop on the frame, grind the resulting product and cover it with water-based acrylic varnish.
To ensure greater strength, all joints of the structure must be coated with PVA glue before fastening.