A dining tabletop built by hand using plywood sheet and dressed pine.
The project
For years I hated our black glass-top dining table but couldn’t justify buying a new one, especially when what I wanted, in the size I wanted, was $2000 plus. With an incredibly understanding husband, I took over his car shed with his father-in-law's tools and decided I’d make my own.
After many drawings and calculations, I purchased a thick plywood sheet and some dressed pine. Then I got to work spending my afternoons getting little bits of the dressed pine measured, cut, glued, and screwed bit by bit. After that I gave them a final sand, fill, stain, and seal.
After three months and some changes of mind and getting the stain right, I finally had a tabletop I was happy with. Then I decided to get the old table legs powder coated black before reinforcing the ply (to withstand everything the six-year-old could possibly do to it) before putting it all together.
I’ve had a few D.I.Y. jobs under my belt, but this was by far the most technical and challenging, but also the most worthwhile.
It was a big process, but I really wanted something that we could keep for a while (hopefully a long time but we’ll see how my D.I.Y. craftsmanship holds up). Definitely pretty proud of how it turned out.
