I Built ANOTHER Dining Table!

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I loved my other dining table that I built from the Shanty2Chic plans, but I built it too small. I only allowed 1 inch between the chairs and the legs of the table and it didn’t leave much room for people to scoot in and out, so I sold it to a friend that was only going to use 4 chairs.

I saw the below table on Pinterest and fell in love with it! But I didn’t want to pay that price so I figured I could make it myself.

I found these legs on Amazon and the rest is made out of framing lumber, common board and a sheet of plywood. This table cost about $300-400 to build. I do want to work with a nicer wood one day, but I was wanting to build something inexpensive this time around. Common board really isn’t great to build a table out of because the wood is so soft, you want a harder wood.

I started with the top. We wanted this table to be bigger so I used painters tape on the dining room floor to visualize exactly how big I wanted it. I decided the 4ft width of the plywood would work, but I needed to take 1ft off the length leaving it at 7ft. Then I used wood glue and brad nails to secure the common board to the plywood once it was cut down to size.

I love how this pattern turned out!

I stacked the 2×6 and the spindles to see how I wanted the legs to look.

I took off 45 on the corners 1in in from the edge with my miter saw.

Then I stacked them again and decided to add 1×6 to the bottom to give the table feet.

I used 80 grit sand paper and my orbital sander to round the hard edges. Then I went over everything with 180 grit followed by 220 grit.

I routed the edges of the table top to give it a fancier feel with a bit like this. Then I added edge banding to the plywood edges to hide that ugly plywood look. Edge banding is stainable and paintable and comes with a glue on the back of it that activates with heat, you just iron it onto the edge of your plywood.

I stained all the pieces in Special Walnut before putting the legs together.

I put the legs together with wood glue and screws, making sure the screws were sunk into the wood flat.

I connected the set of legs with a cross piece on top and bottom and added some spacers to make the table the right height.

One thing I didn’t realize until it was too late…one of the spindles is upside down. Some say it gives this table character and that I should leave it. But I’ll probably fix it one day…maybe.