Coffee table - an ambiguous piece of furniture. On the one hand, in a small apartment or in the ascetic interior in it there is no special need, especially if you do not have magazines and books, or you are not used to drink tea while sitting in a chair. On the other hand, this piece of furniture can liven up any living room, to become a kind of center, for which the whole family with the guests before or after meals.
Meanwhile, few people know that such a table can cost a penny, and make it possible their own hands with minimal labor costs. We are talking about the table from pallets - pallets on which supermarkets are boxes with the products and in the production - rectangular parts.
In the production of pallets used very cheap wood - pine, besides more knotty. But in the design and fashion now prevails emphasis on natural materials and minimal handling. So from that side trays clearly benefit. Plus, they can get or do for free or for pennies on any enterprise, especially since new pallets you do not need enough second-hand.
Variants of pallet coffee table
In fact, the pallet - it is the prototype of the coffee table. It is the upper part, which can serve as a table top, and bottom, in the space between them can be set magazines, books or any fines. In its simplest form, the pallet is sufficient to attach four legs, and a coffee table is ready. The legs can be taken from an old stool, saw off them at the desired height, and then fasten with screws random through pre-drilled holes.
Another option - is to make a table of two pallets. All that is needed - is to remove the bottom bracket, on which the pallet is usually worth it. This will require a crowbar. Disassemble the pan - not an easy thing, because when you build using coiled nails - they are extracted much more difficult than usual. After the strips are removed, a pallet is put upside down, and the second - on top of the upper part of it up.
As a result of pallets aligned intermediate bars. Now all that is needed - it is bolted to one another with screws. Thick drill can be done by sampling perspiration. Screws on a tree is better to choose a longer, so that they have enough in the diagonal connection. Left leg. Good idea - to buy in the construction of furniture supermarket four wheels on the brackets and screw them in the corners of the lower tray.
If you do not want to buy anything other than fasteners, the table legs can be made of the pallet. To do this, separate the top part so that there were only bars at the corners. Central bars remove. The remaining two lower straps Saw in half and attach to the top of the bars so as to have four legs. Especially strong this construction will not name, but this is not required by the coffee table.
Examples of decoration of the table pallet
Furniture assembly of the pallets - a kind of designer. When a sufficient amount of material you can wield a hacksaw, matching the details on your taste. But sooner or later the question will arise finishes, because she pallet made of untreated pine. This easily splinter hand. Small tricks can help arrange coffee table in the original style.
If you use the countertop with spaces inconvenient, and besides, more and do not like the texture, the problem can be solved with the help of glass, laid on top. Glass thickness should be about 5 mm. If you do not like that the glass does not fixed, and drill a hole nothing can be at the corners carefully screw the 4 screws with decorative caps.
Firing pallet fire - step by step guide
Step 1. Sanded all surfaces. Manually do it long and hard. Better to take a sander with dust bag and handle pallets it. It is more convenient to do it before the assembly.
Step 2. Collect the coffee table for the project that will have you on the soul. If you are using the legs on wheels, it has not yet put them.
Step 3. Take apparatus which gives flame. Who has a propane torch lucky. Who does not, you can take blowtorch. No blowtorch - now sold portable gas cylinders with a burner. Treat the outer surface to the non-uniform dark color.
Observe the fire safety and do not overdo it.
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