It’s a rainy afternoon here on the farm and I thought I’d update you on the pallet tables that my husband has been making. These pallet table tops worked out really well for our daughters wedding, making the carpeted walls look much more barn like. Since then, however, they have been leaning up in a stack against the garage wall while we continued working on other projects.
We recently had new motivation to work on these table tops since our newly married daughter’s birthday is here. We had promised her some customized tables for her new apartment and we needed to get into gear to fulfill that promise. As often happens, I ended up being the idea generator and my husband did most of the work with me just holding the screws when needed and lifting the other end of the table top.
The new apartment is very small and our daughter had wanted two narrow tables that would extend her counter top space as well as serve as desk/eating area. We were going to make two tables specifically to fit the space but since we waited until the “last second” so to speak, we decided to use one of the existing table tops that was a little bit wider than the rest and make it into two. We unscrewed the boards that were in the middle of the table top, did our measuring and cutting and then added in the necessary pieces of wood to the underside that were needed to make the edges on both halves. We then replaced the top pieces and my husband cut some new decorative edge pieces to finish the newly made edges to the tables. These tables turned out to be approximately 20 inches wide by 6 feet long each.
We went to our local hardware store and chose pieces of black metal pipe to use as legs for the tables. We brought them home where my husband connected them together to make four sets of legs, one for each end of the two tables. The cost for these legs was about $285 which seemed like quite a bit. We are already thinking about how to trim that up a bit for the next table top finishing. The legs ended up costing more than all eight table tops that we had originally made from the pallets.
The legs were then attached to the bottom of the table tops with screws and the tables and legs numbered so that they could be disassembled and transported to their new home. After they got these tables home, our daughter and son-in-law have done some finishing of the wood so that they will be preserved and easier to wipe off.
So, one of the original table tops made for the wedding has now come to it’s final resting place and we are on to more projects! God’s blessings to you all…
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