Primitive Coffee Table Tutorial

 

Something doesn’t sound right to call my posts a “tutorial.” I feel I fall way short of ever posting a real step by step tutorial on the furniture I make. First of all, I’m not very consistent in the way I make my creations. I basically just slap some wood together and hope it turns out half decent in the end. I’ve mentioned this before how hubby and I don’t work the best together in the shop since he actually uses a tape measure and a speed square ( I think that’s what the scary things are called ). I am kidding a little though since I do use a tape measure sometimes. But don’t talk about anything less than 1/8”…I get nervous. I like thinking “11 and two little marks past 1/2 and so on”…if that makes sense. When hubby watches me hold a piece of wood to the place I want to fasten it and use my thumb to mark where I need to cut, I sense eye rolling and hear sighs of exasperation, for some reason.

Anyway, I have a few furniture orders to make and I thought I’d share these with you and hope I can create a spark of interest in you making your own dream furniture. It’s really not that hard… I like to say if you can sew, you can work with wood. You cut stuff out and put it together.

Here is a picture of the finished coffee table…

 

The only thing I needed to purchase was the pine beadboard, which can be bought at Holmes lumber for a decent price.

 

The rest was mostly wood from a shed we tore down.

I made the bottom first and added the beadboard on the sides. Next I put in the partition in the middle and the trim on the front. Lastly, the top. My ripsaw is out of order right now so I used my faithful method of cutting boards the long way with a skilsaw. I still prefer this way since the ripsaw tends to make me a little nervous. I use clamps to hold the wood and the guide on the saw and cut the board the width I need…

 

 

I can get carried away when working and forget to take plenty of pictures so that’s why the pictures went from pine beadboard to a structure.

 

After putting the top on and some paint & distressing it was completed…

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had to take all these pictures from the same angle so you don’t see that we are lounging on lawn chairs these days in our living room. We sold our sofa and recliner in the garage sale in May and of course, I had a certain sofa in mind with a certain price that I knew would be perfect for us, and finally found it last week. Hopefully, in four to six weeks we can have a soft, cozy place to relax. In the meantime, we’ll use the floor or lawn chairs.

I hope you enjoyed this “tutorial” and are inspired to grab that saw, speed square,some screws and create!