How to Build a Kitchen Table
Here are the steps as well as details for building your own table, from the tools you need to the instructions on how to do it.
- You need 4 pieces of wood 35 inches long as well as 2 by 2.
- Get a piece of wood measuring 2 ft. x 2 ft. x 3/4 inches thick for the table top.
- S as well as wood with light s as well as paper until all the edges are smooth as well as flat.
- Buy 8 L-shaped metal brackets 2 inches long on each branch of the "L."
- Get a package of 1-inch-long, size 8 wood screws.
- Screw a bracket onto each leg. Position the bracket at the end of the leg, so that the bend of the bracket is flush with the end of the piece of wood.
- Rotate the leg 90 degrees as well as screw in a second bracket. Repeat with each leg.
- Get some screws 1/4 to 1/2 inch shorter than the thickness of the tabletop.
- Put the tabletop on the floor with the top facing down.
- Place a table leg, bracket end down, on the tabletop's corner.
- Line up the edge of the leg with the edge of the tabletop.
- Hold the bracket down on the tabletop as well as screw one of the screws through the hole in the bracket.
- Screw the other bracket into the tabletop.
- Repeat with all four legs.
- Turn the table over.
- Shake the table to check for motion. If there is motion, sink two long screws through the tabletop into the top of each leg, or replace the brackets with longer, thicker ones.
- Paint or stain the table a color of your choice.
- Let it dry overnight before using it.
- Make sure all the 4 pieces of wood are the same length before starting.
- Make sure the screws attaching to the tabletop are not too long.
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Added: Thu Feb 02 2006
